Jofly wrote: Just back from a week in Aitutaki with Will. Videos and details to follow later but here is my first (and only) bone of the trip. What a magical place and what an infuriatingly frustrating fish to catch! There is a lot of irony in the pic below that will come to light later. I will have to go back... |
Snuffit. wrote: Yeah, great trip Fraser. Much fun had with a bunch of good lads. Craig, here's a side on shot of Mr trev. Wikepedia states "It is often confused with the giant trevally, Caranx ignobilis, but is best distinguished by its lighter dorsal colouring and abundant black spots." Well, it confused me until you mentioned it. On review the smaller eye size, golden eye colour and distinctive spots give it away. |
FishMan wrote: I managed to hook into this nice trevally off a sand island in a small to medium surf. The trevs were cruising the shore and making 'smash and grab' raids into extremely shallow water in the breaking surf in order to nail small dart that were hiding there. I got lucky and managed to drop the fly right in front of them just as they finished a 'raid'. The trev in the picture is a brassy trevally (Caranx papuensis). This is quite a large specimen for the species. At this size they are often mistaken for GTs. The body is longer in a brassy and the snout slopes more. To be certain look for the white silvery spot at the top edge of the gill plate. Also the end of the maxilla (the top lip) will line up with the front of the pupil in a brassy while in a GT the end of the maxilla will line up with the back of the pupil. Once you get used to the two species the differences in body form make the two species easily seperable. Brassies are quite common in Aitutaki and Raro, but they are not aways easy. They seem to cruise along in shallow water quite visibly, but do not necessarily eat when they are doing this. They are easiest when they are feeding or are presented with a quiet fly that they can't connect with the angler in any way. The sand island in the Indian Ocean that this brassy came from had lots of other visible trevally cruising the shoreline, but all of them were very difficult to get to eat. Even getting a response to your fly was often hard. They can be very frustrating when they are like this,so catching a decent one on the nine weight is very satisfying. |
Jofly wrote: Just back from a week in Aitutaki with Will. Videos and details to follow later but here is my first (and only) bone of the trip. What a magical place and what an infuriatingly frustrating fish to catch! There is a lot of irony in the pic below that will come to light later. I will have to go back... |
Jofly wrote: I had been casting for, I think 5 days, to what felt like a 1000 sighted bonefish which I could not catch, only to land catch one accidentally while fishing a channel for trevally. |
FISHBYFLY wrote: oooh, ya might have accidently discovered something there. Â we all ty on the mantis shrimp imitations, but maybe there are times when the small baitfish are more abundant and become the food of choice, could explain the fly refusals. Â I rekon next person to go there test out the theory on some small lightly weighted clousers in baitfish style. |
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