Fitzroy Barra

[Bugeye]

Went down to the river today and picked up this nice barra. Hooked a good one casting over a rockbar with shallow divers, only to have it jump and throw the lure...not happy... threw it back in there again, twitched it back.. no bingo.....i was pissed.. threw it back in again hopin it was still there (still shakin my head), halfway back to the boat and was on... probably the same fish but dont know for sure.. wrapped me around the anchor rope... and being only just hooked on top of the mouth i was nearly certain i was going to lose this one too. the sooner i can get an electric the better it went 88 cms.
cheers matty z

[Creek Vermin]

Nice fish matty. Hows the river looking in the city reaches? Are you fishing the bounty mate? A few of us are heading up for it this year. Coupla bazzas, coupla beers. What HB ya get him on?

[nuggstar]

ripper salty dude

[Kendall249]

Nice fish, its good to see a report from rocky.

[Bugeye]

creek vermin.. there has been alot in the local newspaper recently about the river dieing, blaming chemicals coming from the central highlands mines in the floods earlier this year. some commercial fisherman have complained about the drop in thier catch rates and there has been aerial photographs in the paper of mangroves dieing along the river.... so you could say it is not good, but i cant see it? i havent noticed a change in the city reaches itself.. there has been plenty of baitfish life at lowtide on the days i have been there in the last couple of weeks and the first decent go at fishing the place since the warmer weather has got me a fish. i havent decided on fishing the bounty this year... but one of these years ill have a go. i got him on a rapala X-Rap salt.

[T H I R S T Y]

nice work there bugeye. im fishin the bounty and im gettin pretty excited hopefully there is a few decent fish around . a couple like yours would be welcomed aboard . cheers mate.

[Local_Guy]

I was going to go into the Bounty this year until i saw it was $200 to enter.. gone are the years where it was only $20 to enter and a family event...

best of luck to those that are competing... try and outfish scotty will ya.. lol. J/K scotty.

[anthony72]

That's a great barra, well done, fantastic result after all the local media!

[ddobson]

Well done mate. Good fish.

[goggles]

great fish bugeye, will bwe in rocky next week , can u tell me a good spot landbased to throw a few lures around in the fitzroy. Thanks wayno

[jtpython]

Nice fish mate
Have been hearing there have been a few about lately
Against all the negitive media
JT