Dakota Colls’ 44 cm Golden Callop
The first photo – Rhys Fitzpatrick, age 3, caught this callop at Blanchetown back in 2017 and with the help of Dad, James, tagged this fish at 34 cm.
The second photo also taken at Blanchetown – Dakota ‘Kodi’ Colls, age 5, was getting ready for bed when she heard a fish take her bait. Running down to the bank just in time she managed to reel in this cracker tagged callop. Jacob, Dakota’s father, sent in the details to SAFTAG and was surprised to learn the origins of this specific tagged callop. She had recaptured the callop that young Rhys had tagged back in 2017.
This fish was tagged and then recaptured both in Blanchetown, growing 10cm during it’s journey from Rhys (3), to Dakota (5)! Great work kids and well done to the parents for showing the young generation how important citizen science is!
Dakota won herself a subscription to her favourite SA fishing magazine thanks to our citizen science recapture initiative!
From Fishing SA Magazine SA ANGLER
