pikk0n 2 Posted November 6, 2011 Report Share Posted November 6, 2011 You forgot redfins, mate. Also, the widely available yabbies. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
snake 1 Posted November 6, 2011 Report Share Posted November 6, 2011 well i'm convinced theres a kingie in westlakes coz he's eaten all the bream!!! thats my excuse anyway and i'm sticking with it!! Mr_Willy 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fullysikwog 6 Posted November 6, 2011 Report Share Posted November 6, 2011 well i'm convinced theres a kingie in westlakes coz he's eaten all the bream!!! thats my excuse anyway and i'm sticking with it!!he musta took the mullies aswell Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mr_Willy 3 Posted November 6, 2011 Report Share Posted November 6, 2011 well i'm convinced theres a kingie in westlakes coz he's eaten all the bream!!! thats my excuse anyway and i'm sticking with it!!he musta took the mullies aswell @ smokeykebab - CARP!?!?? Was it healthy??? Bit of a concern one surviving in a saltish water environment.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
southie THE BANGA 2,304 Posted November 6, 2011 Report Share Posted November 6, 2011 well i'm convinced theres a kingie in westlakes coz he's eaten all the bream!!! thats my excuse anyway and i'm sticking with it!!he musta took the mullies aswell Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sbarnden 397 Posted November 6, 2011 Report Share Posted November 6, 2011 @ smokeykebab - CARP!?!?? Was it healthy??? Bit of a concern one surviving in a saltish water environment....They pumped the place full of fresh water from the Torrens a while back to kill that invasive weed. Wasn't fishing during that period so I don't know if any freshwater species took hold for a little while.Not sure what it was like back when the whole area was a swamp either. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cal 480 Posted November 6, 2011 Report Share Posted November 6, 2011 this is a list of everything caught in the lake to date.BreamFlounderGarfishKing George WhitingMulletMullowayRockfish/ Rock WrasseSalmon TroutSnapperTommy Ruff/ Australian HerringTrevallyTrumpeterWhitebaitBlue Swimmer CrabSquidCuttlefishFlatheadYellowfin WhitingSand WhitingCatfishLuderickCowfishLeather JacketSweepGurnardOctopusCarpPort JacksonFrogmouth PilchardEelBronze WhalerPrawnsBlind MulletSnookMusselsMorton Bay BugTortoiseBlue Ring OctopusRock CrabsRazor FishAngelfishRed Mulletnope no Kingfish You forgot one BLIND MULLET!Surely this rare and exotic species has made an appearence from time to time,the state record came from not far from there ,plus there have been several confirmed sightings ...or so I've been told Quote Link to post Share on other sites
smokeykebab 175 Posted November 6, 2011 Report Share Posted November 6, 2011 i never caught the carp someone else has. but i've seen carp in there dead at the trimmer parade end. they get washed in from the sturt catchment drain near the inlet. west lakes bream are delicious the only thing better is mawson lakes carp yum yum. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mr_Willy 3 Posted November 7, 2011 Report Share Posted November 7, 2011 Hmmm..... fair enough..... Ha ha! Would have to be keen to eat the Bream from the lakes....@ Cal - blind mullet is on the list already.... about 10 from the bottom.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oriental fish 0 Posted November 8, 2011 Report Share Posted November 8, 2011 GUYS!. I have fish westlakes my whole life and i fish it every week. I can guarantee everyone that there is no kingies in westlakes. There probably is i the portriver, but not westlakes. And Sambo man is right in what he is saying pikk0n 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
flatoutfisher 0 Posted November 18, 2011 Report Share Posted November 18, 2011 GUYS!. I have fish westlakes my whole life and i fish it every week. I can guarantee everyone that there is no kingies in westlakes. There probably is i the portriver' date=' but not westlakes. And Sambo man is right in what he is saying[/quote']No one can ever be that certain.. fish have fins mrballs 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
talbo 0 Posted June 14, 2012 Report Share Posted June 14, 2012 Old thread I know but thought I'd add my $0.01 anyway. I've fished the lake for close to 30 years also not so regularly until around 3 years ago when I moved 5-10 minutes away and I too have never seen a King in there. I do often (2-3 times a week) stop and have a look at the entrance (Trimmer Pde). As I mentioned somewhere else, have recently seen quite a number of schoolies at at the entrance (and big bream that will only take bait!!! obviously no fun in that!!) Reason for my rant is that I've had residents and kids walk past and tell me that they're Kingfish. Anyone with a pair of polarised sunglasses can tell that these are in fact NOT Kingies. I wonder do these stories get around because some cannot correctly identify their fish. An older fellow down there one afternoon asked me If I could see the tommies following my soft plastics, I said 'no mate but I can see some bream right there'...... alexczarn, Gimbles, afishyfish and 1 other 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
afishyfish 4 Posted June 14, 2012 Report Share Posted June 14, 2012 True talbo, but just because you havent seen something doesnt mean it doesnt exist either mrballs 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
samboman 319 Posted June 14, 2012 Report Share Posted June 14, 2012 Thousands fishing it, ABT comps........ Still no pics :whistle: Sambo Gimbles 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
afishyfish 4 Posted June 14, 2012 Report Share Posted June 14, 2012 Thousands fishing it' date=' ABT comps........ Still no pics :whistle: Sambo[/quote']Seen a pic of a snook from there Sambo ? Unfortunateley I dont have a pic ( Doh) but I DO know they are in there too lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
smokeykebab 175 Posted June 14, 2012 Report Share Posted June 14, 2012 snook do enter i've caught 1 and seen a few caught over the years at trimmer parade end. even seen slimys down at bower rd but on the port side. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jack. 10 Posted June 14, 2012 Report Share Posted June 14, 2012 Thousands fishing it' date=' ABT comps........ Still no pics :whistle: Sambo[/quote']Anybody? ...anybody?????Bout time a pic rose to the surface..... Shall not hold my breath... But I will happily eat my tinny if it's Samboman that hooks one :laugh: like I say, wouldn't be healthy to hold my breath while waiting for a pic Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pauly s 426 Posted June 14, 2012 Report Share Posted June 14, 2012 im hoping someone does get 1 just to see what youd reply sambo Quote Link to post Share on other sites
afishyfish 4 Posted June 14, 2012 Report Share Posted June 14, 2012 Thousands fishing it' date=' ABT comps........ Still no pics :whistle: Sambo[/quote']Anybody? ...anybody?????Bout time a pic rose to the surface..... Shall not hold my breath... But I will happily eat my tinny if it's Samboman that hooks one :laugh: like I say' date=' wouldn't be healthy to hold my breath while waiting for a pic [/quote']thats one hell of a promise to make publicly Jack !!!Hope you have a dam good dentist if ever a Kingy does turn up lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bigmac54 0 Posted June 14, 2012 Report Share Posted June 14, 2012 So maybe there's no kingfish, but it seems there's a few 'king'fishermen! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
samboman 319 Posted June 15, 2012 Report Share Posted June 15, 2012 So maybe there's no kingfish' date=' but it seems there's a few 'king'fishermen![/quote']LOL i'd say something but i might get another PM from Ranger :whistle: Sambo statesquider 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
alexczarn 146 Posted June 15, 2012 Report Share Posted June 15, 2012 There have been reliable reports of a sunfish sighting in the port river' date='video of broadbill swordfish in the Port lincoln Marina, a whale at port Augusta, and I remember reading a report somewhere of an Atlantic Salmon(obviously Tassy fish farm escapee) at a jetty somewhere in SA but I don,t remember where. I saw an Eagle ray in the pat a few years back.If these odd occurences happen along with the other weird things listed here like the Port Trevas then it is quite reasonable to believe that a few lost Kingies may have been seen in West Lakes.Fish are unpredictable critters at times Rollcast[/quote']The atlantic salmon didn't need to be from Tassie, they farm them down the South East Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lofty 27 Posted June 15, 2012 Report Share Posted June 15, 2012 Haven't farmed atlantic Salmon in the South east for something like ten years, probably from some where else if it is true that one was caught that is! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mwilson 1 Posted June 15, 2012 Report Share Posted June 15, 2012 There has been atlanic salmon caught at fowlers bay as well as giant herring.Fish has fins !http://www.marinews.com/travel/travel-articles/exploring-the-deep-reefs/478/ alexczarn 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
afishyfish 4 Posted June 15, 2012 Report Share Posted June 15, 2012 snook do enter i've caught 1 and seen a few caught over the years at trimmer parade end.Thats where I got mine SmokeyHeres a pic of it and hooked up to it Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cal 480 Posted June 15, 2012 Report Share Posted June 15, 2012 I was fishing near the west lakes tavern one night for mullys and a lad showed me pics on his phone of about 15 3lb Salmon and 4 monster bream and i mean MONSTER he and a mate caught ,on pillie cubes at night during a wild session there about 2 year ago.he was fishing near the gates .Nothing to do with kingies but i wouldnt of believed him if he didnt show me the pic. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
statesquider 0 Posted June 17, 2012 Report Share Posted June 17, 2012 snook do enter i've caught 1 and seen a few caught over the years at trimmer parade end.Thats where I got mine SmokeyHeres a pic of it [attachment=10862]Kingfishhuge.jpg[/attachment]and hooked up to it [attachment=10863]Kingfishhookup.jpg[/attachment] Quote Link to post Share on other sites
brenton 637 Posted November 23, 2012 Report Share Posted November 23, 2012 Not on the kingfish topic but i did have a snapper of around 25lb follow a lure up to my feet in the pat the other day,because i'm a law abiding citizen(re snapper ban) i ripped the lure away from it and jumped in the car and went home.....well that last part is crap i had about another 50 casts...........make that 100 cheers brenton urhookedfish and 4THALOVE 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cal 480 Posted November 23, 2012 Report Share Posted November 23, 2012 Not on the kingfish topic but i did have a snapper of around 25lb follow a lure up to my feet in the pat the other day' date='because i'm a law abiding citizen(re snapper ban) i ripped the lure away from it and jumped in the car and went home.....well that last part is crap i had about another 50 casts...........make that 100 cheers brenton[/quote']Now thats one lost fish,poor bugger .A quick Pat joke..............2 turds were floating down the Pat side by side as they do... when one says to the other "Get out of my way you piece of shit!....to which the other one replies...."How dare you talk to me like that! I"ll have you know I was the main course at the Lord mayors dinner last night!" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fished out 0 Posted November 24, 2012 Report Share Posted November 24, 2012 How many people saw the pic of the massive snapper out of westlakes? it was in ever WILD COAST or Sa angler. Just wondering why kingfish couldn't be "stocked" in there, i mean the bream would cop it but imagine that! Mulloway and kingfish swimming around a crystel clear lake. Just stock them to big to escape.Any way, i doubt they are in their but i pray they get in there. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
largsbaysquidder 2 Posted November 25, 2012 Report Share Posted November 25, 2012 You might be onto something there fished out. Could u imagine if they stocked the lake with couple if thousand juvie kings. How good would that be!!! Our own Sydney harbour in our backyard! Not as silly as it sounds they'd have no reason to leave due to the amount of feed in there only question would be would the temp be suitable??? It would be a hub for sport fishing mullies bream and kinggys!! Wowser! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
alexczarn 146 Posted November 25, 2012 Report Share Posted November 25, 2012 You might be onto something there fished out. Could u imagine if they stocked the lake with couple if thousand juvie kings. How good would that be!!! Our own Sydney harbour in our backyard! Not as silly as it sounds they'd have no reason to leave due to the amount of feed in there only question would be would the temp be suitable??? It would be a hub for sport fishing mullies bream and kinggys!! Wowser!Hmm, there's an idea. I know Victoria Fisheries is studying saltwater stocking. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
samboman 319 Posted November 25, 2012 Report Share Posted November 25, 2012 would be pretty awesome if they were in there, but they would clean the place out pretty quick??Sambo Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fished out 0 Posted November 25, 2012 Report Share Posted November 25, 2012 In regard to temperature the kingies at lordhowe island are tropical so it shouldn't heat up too much. Full grown ones would clean it out but it is a decent sized system. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Alexsfishin1 781 Posted May 7, 2013 Report Share Posted May 7, 2013 If anyone has evidence (photo), I would like to see it! But still, I think Kingies can get into West Lakes. A couple of months ago at the Trimmer Parade end, I saw massive schools of 50cm+ salmon swimming out and in of the gates and some monster whiting. So many different species there.Saw a dark shape on the sandy bottom! :woohoo: It was moving, so it was definately a creature! Wasn't that big though. It was probably a small ray of some sort.Cheers Alex. alexczarn 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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