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Title: Jungle Perch North Queensland
Post by: Jim_Tait on August 16, 2011, 10:17:38 PM
Good wet seasons throughout the last decade have seen the population of Jungle Perch in our creek in north Queensland recover from the extreme droughts of the mid nineties - time to go fishing....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSV8XWqdppI#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSV8XWqdppI#ws)
Title: Re: Jungle Perch North Queensland
Post by: Jim_Tait on August 16, 2011, 10:20:37 PM
Jungle Perch get up to greater than 50cm, on this day this was the largest I landed - around 40cm


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnjJ8PMdmYs#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnjJ8PMdmYs#ws)
Title: Re: Jungle Perch North Queensland
Post by: Jim_Tait on August 16, 2011, 10:23:11 PM
One of the pleasures of fishing for Jungle Perch is the extremely beautiful country they live in - they generally require good clear water (being such visual predators) and dense overhanging riparian vegetation for a supply of terrestrial insects - the clarity of the water this fish was caught in can be seen by oberservations of its mates swimming around after it was hooked.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEIENt_FOc0#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEIENt_FOc0#ws)
Title: Re: Jungle Perch North Queensland
Post by: Sweetwater on August 16, 2011, 10:39:46 PM
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Awesome footage Jim, thanks for sharing.  :thumbsup

Junglies are a great fish, could watch that sort of footage all day. In water that clear you'd need to be quiet & no shadows hey?


Here's some more JP footage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bHL-wmxIds#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bHL-wmxIds#ws)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2Wf0ZWYifc#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2Wf0ZWYifc#ws)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1uwyTu04TA#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1uwyTu04TA#ws)
Title: Re: Jungle Perch North Queensland
Post by: Sweetwater on August 16, 2011, 10:46:10 PM
Here's some photos & underwater video of some JPs I swam with in Mossman Gorge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YolBPMZnGjU# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YolBPMZnGjU#)
Title: Re: Jungle Perch North Queensland
Post by: Jim_Tait on August 16, 2011, 11:20:43 PM
Here's some more footage from our special creek in NQ

Jungle Perch are extremely inteligent fish and you seldom get a second strike out of the same hole once a fish has been landed or they have felt the hooks of an artifical lure - the fish in this pool were a bit keener!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aqsL5_NwLU#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aqsL5_NwLU#ws)
Title: Re: Jungle Perch North Queensland
Post by: Jim_Tait on August 16, 2011, 11:28:47 PM
The last fish accessible pool below the impassable upstream waterfall always hosts large Jungle Perch - the strike from this one demolished my fine mono leader and broke me off....


 LANGUAGE WARNING


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzU8wyrSL3s#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzU8wyrSL3s#ws)