Catching Native Australian Fish in Creeks!

In this video we head to the Gold Coast, Australia, to catch some aquarium fish using fish traps! I take you first to see some of the beautiful hinterland around Springbrook National Park, then head to Tallebudgera Creek to see what we can find.
Timestamps:
1:02 - Waterways at Cougal Cascade, Springbrook National Park
2:18 - Mystery fish at the rock pools - can you identify it?
3:23 - Catching Fish at Tallebudgera Creek Reserve
5:33 - How to use a Fish Trap
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[@Yelsin_Salazar]

Wow, you have such a beautiful rainforest in there! You never disappoint. Have a fantastic weekend, Katie!

[@Boja23]

12 minutes? Whaatt?? We need more!!!

[@matt01506]

Top quality drone footage 👍🏻 It must have been wonderful (and emotional) to see your childhood home again.

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you!! 🙏 it was truly incredible, I hadn't seen it for over a decade. So many wonderful memories 😊

[@AAE-cg1il]

Great adventure……glad you took us along. Those dragonfly larvae can get into a home aquarium and feast on small fish…..they can be a real nuisance in a heavily planted tank.

[@LilMzMandy]

I'm from the USA ,and have been watching folks here that make similar content for quite a while. I'm so glad to finally be able to see someone outside of the US making videos doing things I love in places I would love to see. Thank You Kaity, for allowing me to see places in your country I probably wouldn't see even if I vacationed there. I can't wait till the next vid, Thank You again for wonderful content.

[@rhondafitzpatrick1646]

is your specimen container glass? if so that seems pretty dangerous for taking on even short hikes, if you tripped or slipped, that could be the end of Kaity😢! what about just a small clear storage bin from Kmart? it's just the Mommy in me that has me concerned..., its not a problem until it's a problem and someone is bleeding profusely from an artery...😮

[@alvinhang8721]

The drone video really showed how beautiful the place is. A very spectacular view.

[@arunv1909]

the little things that make us happy 😇

[@carlosmunozlivelovelaugh5171]

Wow! 100 subs just around the corner! I remember when you were at 5000! keep up the great content Kaity!

[@carlosmunozlivelovelaugh5171]

100 k

[@ArnolddeGans]

Love these out and about video's .... Hope to visit Australia one time in my life ....

[@Kaityscichlids]

Yay, I'm glad you enjoy them!! I love making these videos too 😊

[@lachlanking4162]

That spot under the bridge at syndicate road is the same spot I go to every time I go fish trapping. It’s usually a really good spot, but I think with all the rain lately the fish have been washed further down the creek

[@iwtfpduta]

My wife and I went swimming in Tallebudgera creek where it goes into the sea. Lovely spot. But we found out a few weeks later that a Great White shark was caught at that area after we swam, and the chilling bit was that it was described as very hungry as it had been in the creek a long time 😲

[@fastforward3695]

Vegemite as bait, most Australian thing I've ever heard :D

[@Kaityscichlids]

And the Australian fish love it 🤣

[@opercula]

From USA. Been to Aussie east coast multiple times but your videos add a whole new dimension that we did not experience. The drone shots, traps, your monologues...they're all great !!

[@95mushroom]

Kaity! You gotta put those Crocs in 4 wheel drive mode so you don't slip!

[@perfectleveladventurefishi619]

new sub good stuff

[@marvinscotton8658]

Nice drone shots. Love the video. You never know what you might find.

[@BlackshacksBushcraft]

Love your passion for the hobby and the amount of time and effort you put into your videos. Keep up the good work. 😃

[@FelixRisingOriginal]

Lovely seeing some of the nature and wildlife in the hinterland of the gold coast. Also loved the drone footage! so awesome!

[@amiremadian6716]

Australia is really a beautiful country. I love this country from Darwin to Melbourne😍😍

[@dunkarldunkarl4168]

Love these kinda videos. Hopefully you will be making more

[@Kaityscichlids]

I would absolutely love to make more of these types of videos!!

[@ashleyhicks2164]

I love the little observation tank. Great job! 😊

[@forestpassion4464]

Hi i love it and its beautiful nature like your eyes 😊 you are brave to go there alone but so beautiful place thank you ❤🐡🐟🐠

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you so much 😊🙏🏻 I'm glad you enjoyed seeing it 🐟🌿🌿

[@travisrichards6181]

Awesome video, Ms Kaity! You beat the uploading obstacles! :) The drone footage is looking really good!

[@Hazel-Hill]

Very enjoyable. What a beautiful area.

[@brianjones1282]

Watching a new interesting video with your perky and sunny disposition is nice after a crummy day. 😊 I'm learning things about Australia I didn't know. Like that Australia has actual tropical rain forest. Thanks for showing these things. That looks like a really cool place you grew up in. I saw what you posted about it on Instagram too. You need to buy it and move back in. 😀 Oh, that thing you captured on the video was Nessie. That's why they haven't been able to find her in Scotland. She moved down there where it's warmer.

[@ejsampana426]

very beautiful and eye-catching

[@pascoerusso8615]

Hi Kaity , great outdoors video & the place looks awesome love your work 🥰

[@tyliful]

beautiful place, the creature... Nessie. enjoyed your vids.

[@PhillipWhite-uz3wu]

Cool video.

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you 😊🙏🏻

[@IronTiger84]

I love your nature videos Kaity🤩‼️ You need to be the host of a nature show 🐠🐟🦐🦜🌿🌊🪨‼️

[@johnwoodall3791]

G'Day Katie. We are indeed Blessed by a Young Lady who is so Enthusiastic about that which you do & it rebounds onto us who watch on. Great Video. I remember going to places for Hiking in the Lamington National Park where their are some great walking trails & being Rain Forrest type like that you were in & really not that far from The above spot I guess. Some beautiful Scenery & lots of little streams & once or twice just carried a scoop net with me & threw it in & the Fish were Amazing & very healthy looking but I guess that's got a lot to do with that fantastic Environment. I go there about twice a year with mates & we have been to the wreck location of the Stinson Plane which is pretty much all rusted away now but their is a plaque there in honour of those who Died & The Head Rescue Hero being Bernard O'riely. Staying at Lamington National Park in a Bungalow is Very Relaxing after a Good Long Walk. Beats Flying any day & it's a good escape from just that. Only concern is the Numbers population wise of mostly Red Bellied Blacks in these types of areas but I know a Lady in the RFDS & she gave me Anti Venene for Both Red Bellied Black & Brown Snakes because you never know & their in my Backpack along with that of other First Aid for such a case of it happening & for other First Aid etc because you just may come across someone who needs Help big time. Always good to have a Personal Locater Beacon & Good Two Way Radio as Mobile Phones are not that Good in these types of Locations, Lots of Black Spots. The Fish you caught look really healthy as well so testimony to the area & it's Sustainable Environment. Your Videos do Capture the Essence of a Good & Fun packed way of Exploring our Diverse Eco Systems & Landscapes & it's so Cool and also very well Narrated . Sounds like Just a Touch of Private School in your voice as I did through Mt. Maria College at Mitchelton. We had a Brother there who used to be a complete Nut Case for going out and catching snakes for Milking & he was our Biology Teacher & a group of us would go with him during School Holidays & do just that, Set traps & catch snakes, The mad Guy. It was then that I got Interested in Scoping out the Local Creeks in the area & finding some really Great Assortments of Fish & all very Colourful & Healthy looking. I didn't take to many home for my first Aquarium set up and would release the rest. Really Cool Video & Excellent Value especially for showing Overseas Fans. Speaking of which I have a long flight to the USA tomorrow so better go. You Look After Yourself Young Lady & don't do anything I wouldn't. Keep up this Great Chanel of Yours. Cheers John

[@jmommy991]

We do the same thing here in the USA (Florida). We also have mosquito fish which I caught and kept in an aquarium. Those things breed like you wouldn’t believe. I had tons of fry after a few months.

[@fbbk3]

cool trip thanks for the vid

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you 😁🙏

[@alexfletcher2273]

Very cool ❤

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you 😁😁

[@canuck728]

she is adorable and a joy to watch 🙂

[@zlamanit]

Yes, Laila is really cute

[@mickeysr5817]

Great video 😊 Detroit

[@cj.wijtmans]

wow thats abeautiful area. Love these videos especially with kaity.

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you so much 😊🙏🏻 I'm so glad you enjoyed it! These videos are lots of fun to film

[@daengkurniofficial]

always present when watching your videos, hopefully you will always be given health and success

[@MizeryScratcher]

awsome vid you are very brave! and very beautifulthanks for sharing your adventuresKaity.

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you so much 😊🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@soundpitchblack]

Love the video! only thing I would say is careful being out there alone. Stay safe!

[@GenXHeart]

Thanks for taking us with you Kaity! I never get tired of these videos and love seeing Australia. I would have liked a home tour but I suppose some people would grumble it was off topic? Anyhow, sending luv from sunny Idaho!

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you so much!! 🙏🏻 And I would love to share it! My dad actually took his GoPro and videoed the entire house tour with us and the footage is great. I might be able to work something out like sharing it as an unlisted video and just sharing the link for those who are interested 😊

[@GenXHeart]

@@Kaityscichlids That would be fun!

[@garageaquatics2023]

Well, Kaity, what a fun adventure! Your drone shots are more and more amazing every time. You are really able to show off the beauty of the area. I say your IG post on the house. Are you going to put an offer in? 🙂 It looks like a lovely place. Enjoy the day! ~Ron

[@justmyway508]

"Confirmed family of fish." 😁

[@jamesshamley6577]

Good job

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you 😊🙏🏻

[@the88tench3]

That was a really cool video! Really enjoyed seeing the species you were catching in the traps, the shrimp was pretty cool too, looked a bit like an Amano shrimp even! Have you ever thought about building another native species aquarium down the line for the smaller species like those gudgeon? Definitely wondering what the other fish you got on camera was if that was some kind of eel or catfish, shame there was a bit too much colour in the water to get a clearer view of it! I do a bit of underwater filming and have posted a couple of videos on my channel and have found water quality has a huge impact on what you can see! Need to do some more this year, went down the gravel pit I fish at last weekend and saw tonnes of roach, perch and bream fry in the margins, plus some really big carp so need to do some more filming soon!

[@sirwilliam7988]

I would so love to go fish collecting with you. Reminds me of my childhood growing catching all kind of critters as a kid.

[@Kaityscichlids]

It's so much fun!! I used to love catching bugs as a kid too 😊🐛

[@bradwelch7425]

Kaity there is a creek along Moorfields road, Fig tree pocket. We used to catch Empire Gudgeons there, it has heaps of swordtails but the gudgeons are awesome, you should give that a go

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you!! I would love to check it out!! Empire gudgeons are awesome, I love those guys

[@andrewiliasiewicz3200]

Another cool vid. I like the out-and-about catching fish ones since that's what I like to do as well. Indeed invasive mosquito fish that you tagged. For future reference they are meant to be "disposed" of and not returned to the water. The gudgeon may be Cox's gudgeon based on the spotty stripe. Some I find confusing to tell apart so don't quote me on that :) You should consider a shrimp tank! Caught some today myself and need to work out where to put them since my tanks are full...

[@jacquesoberholzer940]

Love the crocks😁

[@IndoorEcosystem]

2:32 kind of looks like the head of a python. They are quite common in creeks and streams, especially when the waters are up a little bit from all the rain.

[@sharpygsxr]

Im so glad you said there are no crocs as everything ive ever seen or heard about Australia is that absolutely everything in nature is trying to kill you at any given time. Im definately too used to my Irish wildlife where the most dange i might get in is a dodgy look from a sheep :)

[@nitesh_am]

It looked like a snake or maybe a turtle. Loved the video....

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you :) And that's what I was thinking!! I thought maybe a snake and my niece said turtle

[@sheikhshakib55]

hair colour suites you well, ❤ i need those type of adventure life.

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you 🙏 Adventures are the best!!

[@laurencebremner9511]

I reckon the large fish at 7:54 was some kind of mullet, maybe Pinkeye Mullet? One theory as to why they jump is predator avoidance so there might have been a bull shark! 😱The large visitor at 11:04 looks to be an Intermediate Egret.

[@amiremadian6716]

paul cuffaro is also a KZbinr who makes good videos. I remember 3 or 4 years ago he started KZbin by setting traps for fish in Florida and he was getting a lot of views and he has almost 3 million subscribers. The videos are beautiful, I recommend them. I hope you will reach your goal. Thanks for the video.👌👍🐥🐟🐠🌹

[@JKFISHWORLD]

Ur all ways great 💞🐠KC💞🐠🐠🐠🐠🐠🐠🐠

[@Joaquin-227]

I don't know anything about Australia. But how about one day a tour of the Australia Zoo? I don't know if it's anywhere near you? Maybe they have aquariums too? Thanks

[@mattphillips6714]

I’ll bet that whole area is gone during the wet season… I’ve spent over a year in Australia and some supermarkets proudly show newspaper clippings showing there isles flooded with Crocs in there..🤣🤣.

[@joemichener2337]

Where did you get the container from? The only containers that I usually see are the ones that pet stores use when they catch fish.

[@touchthesun2448]

How interesting.... The drone video was fun to watch. It makes me want to see what I can catch in Downtown Atlanta. But where? The sewers?

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you 😊🙏🏻 And believe it or not but some of the most popular fish catching videos are "I caught [insert blank] in a sewer". So you never know what you might find 🤣

[@touchthesun2448]

@@Kaityscichlids let's see what I catch!

[@user-sf4uh8lt4w]

شكرا على الفيديو متابعك من الدولة العربية

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you for watching!! 😊🙏🙏

[@pegazuseloy1575]

💖💖💖💖

[@richardsantos9032]

👍👍👍👍

[@galapagos6186]

This reminded me of my rainbowfish that i used to have.

[@Kaityscichlids]

Rainbow fish are great little fish! And such beautiful varieties 😊

[@galapagos6186]

@@Kaityscichlids Yeah.I had the big ones,i think they were trifasciata.They looked a bit different,maybe they were hybrids,cross breeding runs in rainbows just like in cichlids and various cories,tetras and livebearers i guess.

[@user-ks7zz6qf8v]

I'm like you hunting fish good

[@Jeanbanville]

crocodiles, bull sharks, snakes, skorpions, spiders hahaha only in Australia!

[@samnotspam]

Ive caught handfulls of Rainbow Fish in Coomera River, fresh water side of the Weir. Went trap fishing in Hotham Creek in Upper Coomera, caught a bucket load of Swordtails 😮

[@Kaityscichlids]

Oooo, thank you for sharing!! That is really good to know. It's crazy how some spots just randomly get over run by swordtails. That was like Moggill Creek in 2023, but this year I saw none

[@samnotspam]

Same spot in Hotham Creek after some rain Ive caught Rainbow fish too, slightly different color to the Coomera River ones. Both Crimson spot, but one type is a silvery blue color, and the other type a more green color! So interesting seeing what you can catch in the trap each time 😁🐟

[@ViperOptix]

I seen a large lungfish once while kayak fishing just up from the Coomera weir. It actually gave me a bit of a scare because it's head looked like a giant snake on top of the water. I'm not sure if lungfish live in the Tallebudgera Creek but in saying that I didn't know they were in the Coomera River.

[@Kaityscichlids]

No way!! That's amazing 😱 Well it's funny you say that because when I was looking into it, I actually read that there were reports of lungfish inhabiting Currumbin Creek near where I was, but it hasn't been confirmed. So I wondered if it may have been that. Such a pity it wasn't clearer water

[@75keg75]

3:58 hyper wedgie 🤣🤣

[@Kaityscichlids]

😭😭😭

[@troyandskyelar9588]

Have you tried Young’s Crossing? It’s loaded with tilapia unfortunately but has heaps of natives also.

[@troyandskyelar9588]

Also your ID on mosquito fish is correct, jumpy fish was a mullet. I think the mystery creature on GoPro was an eel but really hard to tell.

[@Kaityscichlids]

I haven't!! I'm going to need to make a list of places to visit 😊 And thank you for confirming the mosquito fish and for the ID on the mullet! I wasn't sure what that jumpy guy was

[@kreska6943]

2:30 turtle

[@user-rk3ue9wz8l]

I would love to visit Australia sometime. Does it ever get cold at your location?

[@Kaityscichlids]

Not really! In Winter the lowest it gets in the day is normally between 8-12 degrees Celsius (and that would be quite cold for here) and maybe at night dropping to 0-5 degrees. It's very similar to Florida weather

[@user-rk3ue9wz8l]

@@Kaityscichlids Here in Tennessee it gets pretty cold in the winter and I don't enjoy it at all.

[@jamesfield225]

It would be cool to catch a baby bull shark, nets probably too small tho.

[@your_local_bestie9513]

Next time bring a plastic fish tank the portable one.its lighter and safer to carry around while your hiking steep climbs

[@bradwelch7425]

Gambusia with that shrimp

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you, I thought so!! When I caught the actual gudgeons I was like ok that fish is definitely not a gudgeon 🤨

[@shannonlidbury329]

Nawww cute 🥰

[@Kaityscichlids]

😊🐟🐟🐟

[@sscfc1]

Hope you release these fish.

[@rustyfan89]

I want to do some native species collecting I’m in the Northeastern part of the United States the majority of the fish native to me get too big for me to keep

[@aaaquascaping9774]

Just a bit of rain

[@gregm8941]

Most people in the states think crocs are everywhere down there and are going to kill you. Please educate us.

[@CiLyXx]

Split australia in half. Basically top half is full of crocs. bottom half is to cold for them

[@jebVlogs556]

2:30 my opinion Could a number of creatures from semi-aquatic, terrapin,salamander, eel, catfish, any giant muskbrats, snappingnturtle or maybe 🤔 💬💬💬 just maybe any form of coastal small shark(s) keep in mind even the late Steven Irwin seen a few small sharks in "up stream rivers" and tributaries that divide brooks, lakes, ponds and oceans ..

[@tripplebeards3427]

Turtle’s neck?

[@wendyhood1006]

I thought it looked like a eel ?

[@Shogunwario]

Becarefull under those bridges theres trolls under there🥴

[@roohollahyeylaghiashrafi7095]

Be careful katy! rivers in Australia may have dangerous creatures.

[@aaaquascaping9774]

No. Only North around Cairns as there can be crocodiles

[@Kaityscichlids]

Yes, only bullsharks to worry about here 🦈 and as long as you stay out of the water you're ok. But I would never recommend doing this in North Australia 😬🐊

[@thehairywoodsman5644]

I'm always afraid a crocodile is going to eat you !

[@troyandskyelar9588]

Wrong part of the country ;)

[@thehairywoodsman5644]

great , now I have to worry about bull sharks eating you too !

[@kwackytankslap9339]

Nah, the sharks ate all the crocodiles

[@Kaityscichlids]

Hahaha, not around here thankfully!! Just the bullsharks to worry about 🤣

[@lucabrasi3039]

Nice fish and nice legs by the way, your videos are not only interesting they are fun to watch, this one made me think of my niece when she was a kid catching minnows with a butterfly net

[@PhillipWhite-uz3wu]

The comment about the lady's legs was uncalled for. Just enjoy the content.

[@saputramaulana7731]

👍🏼👍🏻❤ Maaf Sakit

[@andrewramero4560]

I think the creature was a snake

[@katymoss8557]

Looks like a snake

[@marek73608]

Czemu ta woda w rzece taka szara ??