Teemburra tips needed.

[Brett_Hoskin]

Went to Teemburra yesterday trolled a bit but mainly chucked lures at the trees and timber. Didn't have all that much luk.
Got 1 Barra between 50 and 60 cm (released in water).

I have done a bit of BArra fishing in creeks but very little in Dams. Do fishing styles change with freshwater and deep water. It is a bit hard to get used to fishing 15 ft off the shore and the sounder says its 50 ft deep.

Do poppers work well around the timber.

Migh go up tere again this coming weekend so any tips would be great.

Brett

[jimbamb]

Gday Brett,
The bride and I had some success in teemburra early in the year.The locals said ya can't catch them trolling but we got 6 in 2 days by trolling.we had the most success down toward the wall on the western side.br trolling in and our the inlets.most hits were about 1/3 the way in in about 4.5M water We were using lures that were running about 3 to 4 metres.maybee this will help.

[DRJ]

Hi Brett

If you are in the Mackay area and I suspect you are based on some fo the posts you have made, members of the Mackay Area Fish Stocking Association will be at Northside Fishing this Saturday morning from 9am until 10 am (have a raffle going for $1200 worth of fishing gear and a charter for 2 with Seaforth Fishing Charters). I am sure the boys will be more than happy to give you some hints and tips.
Regards Darren

[Brett_Hoskin]

Thanks Darren,
That's a good idea. Work permitting, I will try to get over there.

[Brett_Finger]

that's the go "Long Tall" get involved in the stocking assocation,this way you can be active in the well being of impoundments,it,as you know "in your own intrest" fish for the future is what's it's all about.
Hookin,TBF ;D

[DRJ]

Hi Brett

Didn't catch up with you on Sat - you must of had that dreaded work disease. Change of venue for this Sat. We are selling tickets in a new raffle ($350 of Reidy's lures - thanks Reidy and a plano 757 tackle box - thanks Fishing World Mackay). The boys will be out the front of Fishing World this Sat morning and maybe sunday as well.

Went to Teemburra late yesterday - the fish are going off. Many unstoppables in the trees and plenty to be found on the troll. Some were having success on brown or yellow little lucifers and others were having success on soft plastics and yet others were having success on bombers.

The end of the ramp is now nearly out of the water so be very carefull launching the boat and watch out for new islands etc.

Darren

[Brett_Hoskin]

Will get over there tomorrow morning to get a ticket or 3.

Work is all I have been doing...getting sick of it..I think I need a holiday.

Might try nto get up there to the dam this weekend, I was going to try Seaforth but the fresh may have upset things a bit???Never fished there before.

ANyway moght catch up with you tomorrow Darren.

Cheers

Brett

[Brett_Hoskin]

Its Saturday.
I went and got some tickets in the raffle went home and had some lunch, and then went up to Teemburrs.

Dragged lures around that damned place and threw lures and jigged plastics and rubbers and got rained on, brushed up against a tree an took onboard 5million spiders, and I have to tell you that every Bloody Barra in that Dam is safe.
Didn't catch a bloody thing.

Lost 3 lures to deep snags.

Sod the dam going to the briney tomorrow.

[Neil_c]

Brett

Don't troll so deep ;)

Neil :)

[Brett_Hoskin]

Patience is runningout.. Was going to Faust today but got delayed so Teemburra it was. 8 full hours of trolling and chucking lures and not a hint of a fish.....Think I will stick to the salt....I always get something in the salt..

As least I didn't loose any lures this time because I trolled shallow..

Cheers

[Neil_c]

Working with 80-100mm Koolabungs and trolling in 3-4 metres has been good to me. Try B-52's after dark in the same water.

Stick with it mate, they're in here :)

Neil :)

[Tally]

Just got back home from holiday in Mackay. Went to Teemburra twice, we landed 7 fish and would have droped another 10 or so. Only lost 1 lure (soft plastic shad) the smallest barra landed was 70cm and the largest was 95cm. We trolled soft plastics till it got to sundown than switched to hard bodied lures with rattles in them. Both nights the quality fish came on the bite at about 8pm. Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Jay.

[DRJ]

Good to see the visitors can get the bigger ones. Some of us locals find enough of them just the smaller versions in the 650 to 800 range.

Glad you enjoyed yourself Jay.

Darren

Brett - have had a couple of late sessions as Jay has discussed and have found fish. In fact managed to connect to a couple of monsters trolling in 45ft of water with a 3 meter lure on - didn't stay connected - drats.

[Randall]

Darren, Brownie will be at Teemburra tomorow, (Thurs) with Froomy from the Cool Palms. Apparently the Barra have been going off!! Froomys done well up in the sticks just past the old homested.
Brownie would love to see you again for a catch-up and bulls**t session.

Bloody shallow in a few areas now I believe?

Left a message on the Teemburra forum for you too.

Regards, Randall.

[Manson]

Is there a Teemburra formum out there?

[Randall]

Manson...check out thier site....relatively unknown, but has great potential for southern visitors to ask questions and plan a trip.

Spent a few days up there late last year with Darren from MAFSA. He put us onto fish and was kind enough to allow us to film the Hatchery and the fishing action for our new Big Barra DVD due to be released in a few months.

Darren is one of the good guys who gives a fair slice of his time to the stocking program up there. These are the best guys to get in contact with if you are visiting the dam for the first time. There a friendly bunch and will always give you the straight dope on the fishing!!

Randall.

Heres the website: http://www.mafsa.com/forum/default.asp

[big_george]

hi Randall
How the dam barra video going. ??? ???
Might take young will up to teemburra come easter. Met neil.c at faust,top bloke.Sure to put us onto some fish.Go the Koolabungs. ;D
regards george.

[Randall]

Howdy George, video is going well. Heaps of editing to do but am enjoying the long and painful experience. We have some excellent footage, and btw....theres some there of you and young William with a small Barra on a fizzer!!!

Could have used some of your Novacaine a few weeks back. Got a nasty treble in my thumb and had to do some surgery for 20 minutes to get it out!! OUCH!!! Did you know these wounds go numb after the first 10 minutes of pushing, pulling, slicing?? ;D Bugger me it hurt!!

Stay safe buddy and say hello to the young fella for me.

Randall.

[Manson]

Thanks for the site info Randall. I have been fishing it for two years now, every second (sometimes every) weekend over summer. The boys at MAFSA do a great job to I might add. When this video is done mate you will have to let me know where I can get my hands on one, Barra fishing DVDs of that type of fishing are hard to come by.

[Brett_Hoskin]

Thanks Jay,

I came home with a full head of steam having been unsuccessful and that I knew I would have had a good day in the salt. I will have to give it another crack after work one day and have a good shot in the dark.

Did you eat any of the fish from the dam?

Glad you enjoyed your holiday up here

Cheers

Brett


Just got back home from holiday in Mackay. Went to Teemburra twice, we landed 7 fish and would have droped another 10 or so. Only lost 1 lure (soft plastic shad) the smallest barra landed was 70cm and the largest was 95cm. We trolled soft plastics till it got to sundown than switched to hard bodied lures with rattles in them. Both nights the quality fish came on the bite at about 8pm. Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Jay.

[Brett_Hoskin]

Thanks Darren
I will give it another go, I don't like to give up without a result. I wwas up there several weeks ago and it poured raining and I found shelter in the boat in the old stables. The top rail was 6 inches below the water lavel at the time.

Any way might see you up there one day or when you come around to drop of the raffle prize I am going to win ;) ;)

Cheers
\Brett

Good to see the visitors can get the bigger ones. Some of us locals find enough of them just the smaller versions in the 650 to 800 range.

Glad you enjoyed yourself Jay.

Darren

Brett - have had a couple of late sessions as Jay has discussed and have found fish. In fact managed to connect to a couple of monsters trolling in 45ft of water with a 3 meter lure on - didn't stay connected - drats.

[Neil_c]

Darren does a heap of work for MAFSA, that is just the kind of fella he is. :)

The web site is in it's early days with more stuff to be added, that's if Darren stops fishn for a day and puts the info in it ::) A big thanks to Robbo from the Faust mob for setting the page up for us [smiley=2thumbsup.gif]

Darren and I have just spent 3 days a Eungella Dam having a blast on Sooties and I'm sure that when his typing finger recovers he will add something here as well :)

I am trying to fit in as much Teemburra and Eungella as I can coz from late Feb I'll be spending the rest of 2004 in NZ, I sure will miss them but they'll still be there when we get back :) :)

Brett - let me know when you might be going to Teemburra again and I'll see if we can get there as well. It bugs me to think that someone is missing out up there.

I have only managed to get little girly trout flys stuck in me :-[ and don't look forward to getting a treble, it's all crushed barbs for me.

:-[ :-[ oh George :-[ :-[

Darren is holding the best Sooty from our last trip to Eungella. It is his 4th fish of 500mm. He got blown away by and absolute monster - next time Darren :o ;D

Neil :)

[Brett_Hoskin]

Thanks Neil,
Trips to the dam always seem to be a last minute decision, why? dunno.
Does the recent weather impact on fish in the dam. I think that it is possible that te fish may be more active with run off etc. Some people I talk to say the fish go off the bite because the water temp drops.
The mystery of fishing .........

[Neil_c]

hopefully these storms will drop some rain instead of just making noise and we can find out.

Neil :)

[Tally]

Brett, we didn't take any barra. All were released after a picture.
Didn't really need to take any barra for the table as while I was up there I was spolit rotten eating coral trout and other reefies.

Neil, I hope you blokes get some rain there soon, the level of the dam is very low it is amazing to see the boat ramp which is probably over 70 metres long doesn't even make it to the water anymore.
But before it rains all you barra fishermen should get out there and mark all those beautifull snags currently above the water line on your gps. ;)

Cheers,
Jay.

[Neil_c]

We got a little bit of a dribble from that inland low and Teemburra came up about six inches. We went for a fish Sunday arvo and found the Barra very slow going. The water temps have dropped a couple of degrees and this seems to have put em off. Has anyone else found this??

We landed one on surface fly and my wife dropped one on a bomber fly. Trolling which has been reliable produced zip with no hits at all :(

Oh well it will be better next time :)

Neil :)

[staggy]

The young fella and I hit the water early and trolled for about an hour with no result Sunday morning. So we decided to chuck some plastic at the sticks. Got five hits with only one landed (53cm barra). All in around half an hour just as the sun came up. Then they shut down. We were off the water by
7-15am.

Staggy