LAST week’s report on weird catches in southern parts of Australia prompted quite a response from readers who’d heard of or had experienced their own encounters with “lost” fish.
One such Fisho reader was Tom Phillips of Sydney who emailed us a pic and info on his recent weird fish encounter at Botany Bay in the city’s south.
The fish in question is a cobia that according to Tom measured just over a metre and was caught off popular boat fishing location, Molineaux Point.
“It was caught on a 1/2 pilly using a snapper spin 5-8kg with a Saros 4000F reel in mid January,” Tom told Fisho.
“It was a very interesting fight and my fellow angler took at least 7 attempts to net it but obviously got it. It is my very first cobia and to catch it in Botany Bay I thought was very unusual to my understanding they very rarely travel this far down the coast.”
Tom’s cobia seems to be typical of some of the unusual fish turning up in southern Sydney waters of late, including a 2.8kg coral trout taken by a spearfisher at Malabar and a rare pencil surgeonfish also speared in the same area (pic below).
Tom Phillips with his Sydney cobe.
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