Australia: Along the Fatal Shores with Peter Morse

[Morsie]

Rusty – what is that bottom fish??

Steve, you can’t come all that way and just fish Cape York – I have a big piece coming out in mid next year’s issue of FlyFisher, on Kakadu and that region of the Northern Territory (we are fortunate to have 3 very good fly fishing publications in Australia – Flyangler which deals mostly with saltwater and native freshwater species – its a quarterly – Fly Fisher is a biannual, its a big glossy and classy magazine with a high cover price, and the previously mentioned quarterly FlyLife).

Grey is the new colour…….

Morsie

[David Anderson]

That’s a Walleye Morsie.

www.dsaphoto.com

A picture is thousand words that takes less than a second while a thousand words is a picture that takes a month.

[shane broadby]

Bloody North Islanders, what about Tassie trout!!!

;D, I’m with you Steve ;).

Good stuff Peter, really impressive, I can’t believe it, But I’ve had to pass on a trip to Croker Island, in the NT :'(, the chance just came at the wrong time :'(

[Rusty Garoutte]

Rusty – what is that bottom fish??

Morsie

Sorry for the delay Morsie, I had the most pressing engagement yesterday.

[gordon low]

If that’s the Murray Cod, I’ve read a large writeup on them in National Geographic magazine a while back, or perhaps on its website.  It listed the candidates for biggest freshwater fish species, and if I recall there were as follows:

– Taimen (Asia)
– Murray Cod (Australia)
– Alligator Gar (North America)
– Sturgeon (Russia)
– Mekong Catfish (SE Asia)

All are known to get over 200#, but I think the Mekong Catfish is sort of the de facto assumed winner.  Naturally, none of these species are swimming at their maximum sizes right now due to overfishing.

Zach

Zach,
Here’s a pic of one a mate got a couple of years ago on conventional tackle.. a damn big fish but by no means a freak.

[Zach Matthews]

Gordon:

😮

Whoa.

Zach

PS You know it’s Oz when even the men are wearing Uggs.

[Simon Chu]

Steve I’m on Greg’s boat next July.
Why don’t you come down and hang on the same trip?
We’ve planned permit tides…… 😉 ::)

Zach, Uggs are the traditional garb for an aussie all nighter. Wolves in sheep’s clothing and all that good stuff

[Steve Dally]

That would be prettycool Simon:)

Yeh I know Morsie, but you know budgets and things LOl Besides I’d like to get them onto Arthurs, Christmas Dun hatch, western lakes etc etc. OOOh and Brumbys 🙂 I can’t wait to fish Brumbys again, with some of the insights from over here.

Cheers
Steve

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