Interesting catch at freshwater bay
Took my girlfreind fishin tonight to the local jetty down freshwater bay hoping for a nice bream.
This is the part where is gets really wierd. As we were walking to the jetty i said for some unknown reason " you should catch a seahorse tonight".
I dont know what gave me the idea. I have fished the swan river for 20+yrs and only caught one while fishing at point walter. It wrapped itself around my hook and i released it unharmed.
Around 8oclock Lisa got snagged then it came free. I was rigging up my rod and as she got the bait out the water i heard her say " oh my god , you said i would catch a sea horse and i have one"!!
What are the bloody chances of that!. I must be psycic!!!!!!!
Lucky this little guy wasnt hooked. He was hangin onto a lump of what looked like sea erchin or river erchin. Took a couple pics and let him go. What a spinout!
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Perry Home
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Awesome.... name it Sea
Awesome.... name it Sea Biscuit?
Now if you can just share the winning numbers in Lotto ......
Would make you think about the area of Freshwater Bay having a resonably high saline content. Wonder if its upstream presence has anything to do with dredging in the lower parts of the harbour.
Thanks for sharing that - you don't see them everyday for sure - let alone catch one
Pez
Rudog
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Unusual but not rare.
I've seen these little guys in the river probably half a dozen times, always on a calm, moonlit night.
Them and sea moths, as well. Now THEY"RE cute!
soupster51
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Cool
Now that's a cool post.
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buschy
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Cute!
What an experience! The only time I have caught one it was a baby and hanging out the mouth of a herring!!
southcity104
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Thats different!!
great photos too.
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Timmo
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nice photos
also caught one in the bay wrapped itself onto the crab pot. Was brown colour tho. awesome creatures. did you catch anything else?
tailor marc
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Cheers guys. I still cant
Cheers guys. I still cant get my head around predicting catching one.
Timmo nah lots of blowies. Although amoungst the 1000's of them the was a pure white albino one i spent some time trying to catch for a pic
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Davy_G
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My mate got this one around
My mate got this one around SOPYC a while ago,
monfsts
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They are really cute... I
They are really cute... I hope they are protected.
Wonderful sea creature...!
monfsts
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Your picture reminds me of the latest movie - The Sorcerer's Apprentice - Where the dragon wraps itself on the boy's finger.
You maybe the choosen one mate!!!
J_D
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nice
yer nice creatures. there was an artical in the paper not long ago about the swan river sea horses. i think it said there are only 2 places in the world that seahorses live in a river system, one being the swan.
bod
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tailor marc
you never let us down. Always an interesting story and great pics. Cheers.
Faulkner Family
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great pic and capture, that
great pic and capture, that would go great in a salt water aquarium . dont think i could take one from the wild tho.
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roberta
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Love sea horses
I caught one on a squid jig in the sound, in some weed, wondered what was moving in the sea weed, it looked ok, so we released it.
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