Stonefish Ate My Stiffy

[Try Hard]

Gday guys,
Had a bit of a muck down at my local creek as a bit of a destress after my exams. Turned out to be an interesting 2 hours because I caught my second Stonefish on a lure!

I was fishing around a small rock bar when my lure was met by a thud. I thought I'de nailed a rock straight up so I left my line slack to allow the lure to float of the 'rock'. After a little while I put some pressure on and the rock started moving off. I ended up winching this brown blob up to my feet and sure enough...a deadly stonefish! After a few photos I carefully removed the faithful Brown Snake Stiffy Minnow and sent its on it's way - well...sort of. The bloody thing just ended up sitting in the 20cm of water infront of me until I left!

They're an interesting looking fish so I took plenty of shots.









Later on I moved down to a nice drop off with plenty of current pushing over it where I managed a small flounder and a tiny flathead.



What flounder...???









Every fish I caught had perfect camoflage so it wasn't too bad a way to spend a few hours.

Cheers Isaac

[ffejsmada]

Nice photos Isaac,
The first fish one of my daughters ever caught was a bloody stonefish.
It took a trolled deep diver!
Be careful where you walk mate, wouldn't want your trip to end in agony.

Cheers Jeff.

[chewy01]

Nice one Isaac,
i snookered a bullrout at baffle ck,but have never got a stoney..not sure if thats a good or bad thing..

[chook]

At least you got your stiffy back mine is still on a stingray some where. nice work catchin that flounder i see a few geting caught around the river at the moment.

[Creek Vermin]

Nice pics mate. They don't mind eatin softies round bribie either. Def a lot more out there than most think.

Cheers. Keith

[Harro1]

Hey mate yeah them stoneys have that blue mouth too and a mate caught on once and we had trouble unhooking hit but we got it (lure caught) and to prove that it wasn't a once off the next week he got another one around the same spot.

[Nath86]

All three look like masters of disguse, and I reckon you'd be hard pressed to spot 'em with they're just sitting there with that bottom.

A couple of years back i was a bit bored after not catching anything for awhile, and was just swimming my lure in front of my toes - only about 20cm away fro 'em when a rock opened its mouth and snaffled my soft placcie. I was very surprised, and felt a bit silly but also lucky as I was only wearing thongs.
And Harro, I know what you mean by the blue mouth.



Cheers Nath

[kevin]

noway id of released that spose to be great eating, for ants, just throw them far enuf up the bank that they cant be walked on

[chewy01]

Trouble is kev the spine and poison sac remain intact long after,n if a bird etc moves the carcass some1 will end up stepping on it.A lot less chance of stepping on it in the water than up on the bank imho.
chewy..