Hauling in giant grouper, Noosa River, Tewantin, November 1935

Howard Parkyn, assisted by his friend Alex Gibson, caught the 454lbs (206 kilograms) grouper while in their dinghy on the Noosa River near Parkyn's jetty adjacent to the present site of the Noosa Marina (formerly Harbour Town). The grouper was towed back in to shore, where it was landed and hoisted up onto the branch of an adjacent Moreton Bay Fig tree using a block and tackle. At the time it was the largest fish to come out of the Noosa River system and it established a Queensland record for this type of fish.