Awoonga {What a Day}

[Awoonga]

Had a call from my mate dave yesterday morning ...He was having a sickie and was off fishing did l want to go too..??. Well when dave rings at 5.00am in the morning and tells you that the Barra in his fish take are going off there heads its time to head to Awoonga.. Now dave makes his own lures and they are spot on ...Wont use anything else So off we go to one of the spots that we know The barra are going crazy over daves lures he had four in the boat before l even got a strike..Now when fish are chasing lures in pairs jumping out of the water to grab them l have just got to have one of them lures....Dave can l use one of them lures.?? yea l know l said they didnt catch fish but can l.....Dave comes across with a green lure Dont look much...But l put it on Wham thats one Wham thats two..In all between us we boated fourty fish yes l said fourty lost over twenty. lots of good fish too not just rats..Five meter fish Oh lures yes lost about 7 all daves..Now when dave loses a lure the whole dam know about it..The air turns blue ..Some of those words Dave..... l have been fishing Awoonga for over 3 years never have l had a day like that. Had to take today off wrist tooooo sore ...So what do we do ???yes thats right back to the dam But they are back to there normal ways we catch 3 fish.....

[Barraholic]

Awoonga that's an awesome effort, well done. I'd be interested whether those types of numbers have been achieved before at Awoonga (or any of the other stocked impoundments in Qld for that matter).

Hope to throw some lures around Awoonga in September - your post has just made the wait harder!!

Barraholic

P.S. Day before full moon duly noted!!

[Barraholic]

whoops, I mean the day of the full moon!!

[Awoonga]

Well yes full moon, barro was 1009 light winds ..sunny day Water temp 32c We started fishing at 0600 till 1430 then it was like someone turned the switch no fish ??? l thought long and hard about making this post It sounds like a story Well its a story but a true one...No need to make it up....And one other thing l didnt matter where we tried they where on.!!!Next day diffrent story if anyone has that fishermans Allmanac Was it a good day to fish !!!...

[CQ_Fisher]

Bloody hell Awoonga, thats some great numbers your talking about there, 40 fish!!, id be flat out catching 40 fish a year, let alone one session.

JD

[Sportfish_5]

Got any pics ???

[Daintreeboy]

now that's a Barra Session. Well done mate!!
Cheers, Mark.

[Lundy]

Hi Awoonga,

Good to see you have the place worked out. I got sick of going down
there and coming home broken hearted. I only fish in the salt. Went last night and only got a rat at 485 long. How do you get on the water by 6:00am?

Steve

[mackmauler]

Yep sounds brilliant, ive fished the place and caught a few but days like that are urban legends, without pics noone believes em ::) ::)

[Lucky_Phill]

sounds like you were toooooooo busy to take pics.

Yes put the barro pressure, moon, water temp and wind together, and you get " FRENZY "

Cheers from the Salties.........Phill

[NQCairns]

Very well done, I have had Yellow Belly (callop) do that once, it is very strange and no real explantion for it either! There are forces out there we know nothing about that is for sure :o