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These jewfish were caught out of Leaders Creek Fishing Base

Matt Flynn's Northern Territory
fishing report: July 10, 2005

Also available in the Darwin Sunday
newspaper, Sunday Territorian


The mystery of a lost red and white Halco Trembler has been solved.
King Kontis Fishing Tours' Tom Kontis found the lure in the throat of an 18.5kg mackerel a client hauled aboard off Darwin Harbour's Six Mile Buoy.
The unusual find was reported in the local newspaper ... Steve Jenkins of Humpty Doo subsequently contacted the Sunday Territorian to say he had lost the lure to a monster mackerel the weekend before.
The fish was caught in the same place it was hooked and lost a week earlier.
Steve said: "We were fishing lumps and bumps near the shipping channel for snapper and we kept getting smashed up by big mackerel.
"We used all the livebaits and weren't catching much on the bottom so we decided to troll home.
"We only just started trolling and the big fish took the Trembler and went deep on two big runs.
"My friend Trish Sanky hooked it - we had an 40kg wire leader on with a clip and the clip came undone - I had been warned about the clips so it was my fault - Trish said I was using shonky gear.
"Big mackerel had really been smashing the reef fish we hooked - there were also metre-long hammerheads around - and that's what Tom reported when he hooked the same mackerel - everything Tom said about the shraks and mackerel was the same.
"They were big mackerel and we had a great time - it was a good day even though we didn't land the big one.
"I had that lure for years - it has caught two or three mackerel."
Steve said he not draw the squiggles around the lure's raised eyes that were described in last week's report.
Subsequent investigation has revealed that some Halco Tremblers are sold with stick-on eyes while some have a squiggle around the eyes.
     

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