Reply With Quote131cm Barra
Hi all,
Have read all posts on this site re all the "Donuts!" in which I can fully understand. I was there with 5 fishing mates from 19-26 Oct, where we stayed in one of the houses on site.
We spoke with almost everyone in the camp site and they all gave pretty much the same story "No fish!" or the odd one here or there.
From the theories that people have, we came up with the same theory about the coffee looking Aelgy (spelling?) stuff in the water. What I mean is, we ventured alot on the right hand side and the water was very murky and we didn't catch or even see any fish, however on the left hand side the water was alot cleaner and thats where we caught, lost and saw plenty of Barra (Food for thought)
Anyway to the fishing, it was a loonnngggg tiring week cast after cast after cast. The water temp averaged around 25-26oC except where the front came through. A few times we found water to arounf 28oC right up in the small bays where we hooked a few and had heaps of hits. The Barra we did catch, the lure was on the side of their mouth rather than inside there mouths which might explain all the hits but no hook ups.
We mainly fished with Arafuras in the gold, and in silver and green, and in the shallower water small B52's and bommers etc. However if it was in the tackle box, we threw the lures at them. However all Barra where caught on the Arafuras (again!)
We spooked countless Barra right up in the shallow water in around 3foot of water and had plenty of heart attacked of Barra following Horny Toads.
Anywho, the old man broke his PB with his first metre plus, measuring at 106cm, he was chuffed to bits and had a smile like the joker for the whole week.
I almost beat my 136cm PB, as you can see with the photo I caught a very healthy 131cm specimen. She took me 10 minutes to get in which was probably the best fight I have had in fresh water. She took me under the boat a few times, she tried to head towards the trees as we where in fairly open water, and at one stage I was on full bore on the electric and still couldn't catch up with her. I think I need a bigger net! Apart from that I caught a 122cm and plenty of big Catties which sometimes I thought were Barra when they screamed line off the reel.
A memorable moment was when we where approx 50 metres from another boat and he was chucking horny toads and I saw this Masssive Barra chase it and smshed the lure. It was an awesome sight but he lost the fish.
We also wittnessed a small whirl wind/tornado (whatever) come through the tress in a small bay we where fishing in. It was like that monster on the program 'Lost' then it hit the water and started approx 1metre in radius but the water rose approx 1metre in the air. It was amasing to see and it looked like 10 Barra jumping and splashing on the surface. My mates other boat quickly got out of its path and it frantically kept going up the other bank.
A dissapointing trip in regards to the number of Barra not caught however very happy with the big girls we caught and as they say "A bad days fishing is better than a good day at work" We had plenty of laughs, met heaps of fellow fishers and will be back there soon.
131cm Barra
106cm from the old man
Great work there WB. Seems like Mondy is starting to fire again. Mate that 131 has just eaten all the doughnuts he could find!!!!!!!! Have you got any other piccys of her
Cheers
Ben
Hi Wooly,
Sorry to hear the fish were few and far between, however if I ever boat a 130cm+ Barra I'll be running on the thrill of it for a long time! With the full moon I've been finding it harder and harder to focus on anything without thinking about Barra fishing - too bad it looks like I have to wait until Next month!
Wow your IBD must be just about terminal now!
Those Mondy Barra sure seem to like those Arafuras don't they?
Cheers
Tony
Wooly thats a cracker of a fish and it gives someone like me something to really look forward to,
Top work
Cheers
Lee
Wooly,
Congrats on an awesome fish mate - and it's not even a PB!!!
More photos would be awesome - don't get to see many barra over the 130cm mark.
Great fish Wooly! It certainly can be hard up there at Monduran. Well done to your dad on his 106 PB. Great to see photos of big fish - it gives us all someone to dream about and aim for. Your 136 PB would be a hard one to beat. Where did you get it at? Thanks for the detailed report.-- Richard
Great stuff, Wooly - you were there at the same time we were. A shame we didn't catch up. We were in a cabin while you were in one of the houses.
That 131 is a fat monster. Unfortunately it makes your Dad's metery look like a small fish! Any more pics, including the 122??
Your summary of the water quality is spot on. I have noticed that Sunwater have rated the blue/green algae level at 'moderate' for a couple of months now and there was a lot of crap floating around when we were there........
Great to see someone pulling a few beasts from Lake Misery......
BTW did you have a BBQ on board? Noticed the 'dead horse' bottle in your pic!
Regs
Pete
Originally Posted by rc@hinze
The little bay on the LHS just after the Canyons???
Thanks fellas for the replies.
My 136cm pb was caught at Awoonga about two years ago. It was caught just after dark trolling a gold predetek lure, well it was actually caught when we were just starting to troll and I was free spooling the lure out the back and took it about 5-10 mtres out the back. I felt the spool go really fast which I thought felt unusual with the slow speed we were travelling at the time. She put up a huge fight but not as much as the 131cm.
More photoes will be posted but waiting for myself to get off my arse as I have a new laptop and have to change over the photos. I know it only takes a few minutes but you know how it is.
Pete, I probably said g'dayto you folks quite a few times. We were staying in one of the houses on top of the hill, No3 I think. I have a photo of the other 122cm also but again, on the other PC.
Cant wait to get up there again...
Nice ,Nice , Nice...........Heading up there for my first shot at the fresh dec 567.
Thanks to all you guys for your reports.\
Cheers Scott
A good report and an awesome result for the trip, well done Woolybugger.
Thanks for sharing your trip with us.
Cheers,
John.
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