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General Category => Fishing Videos => Topic started by: Jim_Tait on August 16, 2011, 10:17:38 PM
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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#)
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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)
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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)