Awesome vid as always. The tumour result from the larvae of a parasite that encysts in the muscle tissue. The fish reacts by forming connective tissue around the site of the infection, effectively isolating it in a fluid-filled sac. The parasite generally dies apparently, leaving a sac with black inky fluid. I had fish in tanks develop these (back in uni days) and often they healed up eventually.

Your videos just keep getting better and better thank u

Great content mate, as a smaller boat owner I'm loving these vids.

Cool video Matty for fast fish there are reels with an independent knob, where only the spool turns when the fish takes line. Good for the fnger and the line doesn't get caught so quickly

Thanks Matt love the inshore fishing, lucky tusky very tasty fish. Have watched some monsters hunting in water that just covers there backs, great to see 🦈

Tuskie Town. Liking the small boat vids 👌

Epic fish Matty, definitely a bucket list for a lot of fly fishers. Need to get up your way soon and have a crack 🤙

Nice Matty! Well done. I need a recipe for Margaritas. I remember you had a video making one on the boat, took a photo of the ingredients but i lost it !

love this episode.....more of this style of fishing ..we all don' t have the opportunity to hit the hard shell...but we all have a tinny ....remember your grass roots mate .....

Hey mate, I've asked the same question about the black ink sack before and here's the answer I got from a writer of a fishing magazine. "Its a result of infection with Sarcotaces sp., a type of philichthyid copepod which infects the musculature of a range of fish species. When the cysts are cut by the fillet knife they release black fluid over the fillet."

Awesome part of the coastline up that way. Great video Matt

Nice explore and Baldy 👌🎣🍻

Epic fish Matt, makes me want to take up fly fishing and go explore flats fishing

That southerly rolling in had nothing to do with you wrapping things up early and heading home. Gotta love a kid free, date night with the wifey 🤣☺️😉

I've taken the family up there quite a few times mate, really quiet and beautiful spot out there mate

Liking the new diverse content 🤙

another epic day on the water! love to see it :)

hi there, great channel! Just wondering, do you have polarized filters for you cameras? If not I am sure it would improve your already amazing content!

wow great video and fish what ac dream ,thanks for it

Nice fish, and can’t beat them tailing… hope the margaritas went down well??? Would it be worth getting a foot pedal for the electric to prevent hands off the rod/reel and potential tangles? Relipper content, keep it up and love any shallow water stuff… 👌

I 💯 agree with yiur stand point. Sustainable fishing isnt about keeping no fish, its about showing respect to the environment and taking only enough for a feed. Taking one good sized fish a trip is totally fine imho. Its when guys go out and 'bag out' and take 20-30 fish a boat off a single flat that I get a little disappointed. And thats an fish on fly

what weight fly rod do you prefer when fishing flats or shallow water for your permit / tuskies? Do you have a brand of fly reel/wand and line you like running as it’s definitely a bucket list species for me & want to make sure I have everything right for when that trip comes up. Cheers

That’s a fire ass beat in the video Who produced that beat ?? Also, Sick video my man

That Tuskey was great, love the hunt & catch, do it with Flathead at home in dirty water. You know they're there cause they've already attacked once, then it turns into the hunt

You keep about every fish!

Awesome Tusky! Bro, keep your fly rod tip touching the surface of the water when you're stripping your fly. You'll "feel" the eat in an instant and miss fewer bites! Instead of lifting the rod to get a hook set, just keep the rod pointed at the fish while the tip is still at the waterline and give it a hard strip set with your stripping hand and you'll properly set the hook deep and firmly. Also when casting and when you pick up the fly line, while keeping the rod tip still at the water line, take out the slack with your stripping hand, then reach up the flyline to strip again and then S L O W L Y pick up the rod. As you pick up the line with the rod, you'll feel the water tension which properly loads the rod while you lift it and then shoot some behind you once you hit your back stroke stop and then make your forward cast and then eight shoot it on your forward stroke or make one more false cast and then shoot it out, not hauling it any faster than your haul on a normal false cast and you see the rod wake up with plenty of power without you forcing it out there (which can blow up your cast. Finally.... S L O W down your casting stroke and let the rod do the work and not you forcing it out there (like you would casting a plug on a spinning rod).

Another great video content 👌

I have seen heaps of fish of many species with wounds behind the head, some healed, some fresh. I once caught a Bonito with a fresh wound and sucker marks on its flanks. I believe they are from squid attacks. I have never seen the black cysts.

Your vids are always so gooood

Awesome work

Awesome video amazing catches 🥰👋🤗👍💙🩵🤍🐠🐟🎣

Love your Vids Matt 🤙

Yet another quality vid.

Legend! 🙏🏽🥳💪🏾

Cheers

Nice

Legend

How good is dingo

What kind of boat is that? I'm envious.

I Don't get the editing on this.... You let the tusky go.... then you walk back to the boat and look like he followed you there? I don't get it.

Was that an oyster getting shoved in the can?

Man, what do you do for a living that let you do this all the time??

the 2nd section of your video brought back some good old memory of another video which brought me immense viewing pleasure also from the same country. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mJZjdrd20JO-kXk.html hope it will get you psych up for more flat fishing content in 2024.

U don’t have to justify keeping a top eating fish mate!

Nice on fish on fly matty grogs over rated but fishing is epic man

If the fish are hungry they will eat anything so ur theory of the fish never gona eat the fly again is nonsense but if it makes u sleep better at night

Nice fishinng