Hi all like a few of the other Ausfish members i decided to take the 4 hour drive to Monduran on the weekend and as i had no one to take i asked my mate next door who is a keen fisher and had never caught a barra but wanted to if he would like to come ,needless to say he jumped at the chance , so we left about 1.30 friday after checking the weather radar and seen storms building over wivenhoe and headed off to try and beat them constantley watching the clouds building but as luck would have it we made it to mondy rain and storm free at about 6pm ,started to set up camp and whitto came over and said g,day and had a chat, finished setting up , we then went and met a few of the other ausfish boys and said hello and had a few drinks. i think istumbled to bed just after midnight after looking for my bottle of rum(sorry boys i was half tanked ) hit the hay, woke up at 4 .am to a bit of misty camp ground so launched in case the fog rolled in at least we would be on the water but it cleared. we went straight up to where i caught my fish the last trip and chucked plastics and bombers around for about 2 hours for no touches so went for a troll , we trolled about 50 m and my mate hooks up using a guns and roses coloured lure the fish made three leaps and about 8 runs before we got it to the boat and netted it my mate was stoked his first ever barra and it went 95cm, i tell you what when you are feeling as seedy as i was that morning a barra in the boat does wonders for your health. we trolled for a while longer and chucked a few more lures for no more hook ups so went back to camp for lunch and a shower.
hit the water at about 2pm headed up to sth B arm to have a look as i had not been that far up the dam seen a few people trolling and landing a few fish but we found a point where bait was going nuts on the surface and fish showing on the sounder but no takers so we headed back to where we got the barra in the morning for sundown however when we got there a massive storm was moving in so we abandoned the dam for shelter dinner and more drinks.
back on the water at 5 am went to SDA bay for 1 hit but no hook up, so back to my weed bed nothing had a troll around some weedy corners and my mate says i am on again i look but its not going to hard and it has got him into the weed bed then he said its nodding like a snapper i said what he said its nodding like a snapper he finally gets it out of the weed and i get a look at it i said its a snapper all right a snapping turtle, it must of been swimming past and the hook has gone into his foot barbs a quickly squashed on the hooks and a clean release, tried wiggle bay and the sticks near the cattle yard nothing up near white rock nothing went over to C liked it there had 1 hit but dropped it headed home at 11 am for the drive back .
On a sad note i seen 3 dead Barra 1 over a metre in the dam on sunday 1 in the centre of the main basin ,1 up past the entrance to sda bay and 1 in the sticks up past A
shane
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Originally Posted by robersl
