another noosa river barra

[jayvee]

had a look but couldnt find anyone else mentioning on here so thouht i would!

just read that a 85cm 7.5kg barra was caught in woods bay in the noosa river, around the weekend just gone. old bloke got it on the troll at just before 5am!!!
would certainly appear the early bird def got this worm

can check out a photo at www.fishingnoosa.com.au in the latest reports section.
awsome
JAYVEE

[84mick]

What a surprise that would be! I fished out the front of the Sheraton hotel and hooked my biggest Trev but lost it after about a 15min fight!

Cheers, Mick.

[ifishcq1]

Good effort for the old feller

not a full on salty, that one has come down from fresh to brackish water maybe in the recent flows and that means there could even be a nursery situation up stream where they head up to the fresh as fingerlings to grow out away from the big estuary predators
and when they are of breeding size they come down to the salt to start the cycle again
full on salties that have been there for a while have much yellower fins and tail particularly in clearer water
now is when the big females start to head out to the onshore headlands and the mouths of protected bays where they sit out the cooler temps in the slightly warmer water before moving back in when it warms up again
we snorkel the shallow rockbars in winter and see the big red eyes peering out of caves or weed beds
This might help you find them a little easier and it would be worth working heavy structures with gold bombers or small reidy's in the fresh water end of the river there is probably a few little throwback size fish around

Cheers
SL

[tailorboi99]

Thanks for sharing Jayvee, it would be an absolutely awesome experiance to get a Barra in that River.

Cheers Tom

[nuggstar]

he's a long skinny fish

[jayvee]

IFISHCQ1- mate i was thinkin the same thing in regards to the barra having come down with the fresh water!

imagine what a spot X it would be if you did manage to stumble across a nursery up stream!!!

[ffejsmada]

IFISHCQ1- mate i was thinkin the same thing in regards to the barra having come down with the fresh water!

imagine what a spot X it would be if you did manage to stumble across a nursery up stream!!!

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[Chamelion]

Great fish, it just saddens me that every time someone catches a rare barra down here they kill it.. If we let them all go and gave them a fair chance they might just become less rare.

[therapy]

Dunkxx posted in the estuary reports section the other day that he caught a barra at the mouth of the Pine River. For those of you that don't know it it is between Redcliffe and Sandgate (the most northerly suburb of Brisbane). Quite a capture down here and as you say Chamelion, if they are here in small numbers it would be good if we all adopted a catch and release policy unofficially and give them a chance to build into a viable and targetable species. The thought of a barra fishery here is mouth watering to say the least!!! Gotta love global warming!!!!!
Cheers...Terry...

[nickstock]

I know a pro netter that used to net the second lake in the late 70's and 80's. Old George used to get a few barra each month. The noosa river was once a very productive river for big fish. 8-10 kg Threadys (with the odd one over 12kgs) were a regular catch, Snapper up to 4-5 kgs in the deep holes that used to be near Munna Point coastguard, 15 kg Jewies in the top of the ski run.

There is still a healthy fish population in the river but the lack of thumper fish over the last 10 - 15 years has made me wonder. The only thing I can put it down to is the shithouse shallow river mouth now. Another opinion from many of the oldies is the chemical run off from the farms in the upper reaches.

I wouldn't imagine that Barra are breeding in the Noosa system as that is the first Barra that I have seen from near the mouth. Like IfishCQ said, Barra head to the river mouths and bays to spawn. If the were in fact breeding in Noosa then someone would of seen or caught Barra at the mouth and many bays of Noosa.

The Mary holds a good breeding population of Barra and it would be my guess that the odd fish that are in the southern systems have come down from the Mary. If they were breeding , we would be catching juvie Barra in castnets.

On the topic of releasing them, the old bloke probably didn't have a camera on him and thought his mates would think he was full of crap if he didn't bring it home.

Cheers,

Nick

[ffejsmada]

I know a pro netter that used to net the second lake in the late 70's and 80's. Old George used to get a few barra each month. The noosa river was once a very productive river for big fish. 8-10 kg Threadys (with the odd one over 12kgs) were a regular catch, Snapper up to 4-5 kgs in the deep holes that used to be near Munna Point coastguard, 15 kg Jewies in the top of the ski run.

There is still a healthy fish population in the river but the lack of thumper fish over the last 10 - 15 years has made me wonder. The only thing I can put it down to is the shithouse shallow river mouth now. Another opinion from many of the oldies is the chemical run off from the farms in the upper reaches.

I wouldn't imagine that Barra are breeding in the Noosa system as that is the first Barra that I have seen from near the mouth. Like IfishCQ said, Barra head to the river mouths and bays to spawn. If the were in fact breeding in Noosa then someone would of seen or caught Barra at the mouth and many bays of Noosa.

The Mary holds a good breeding population of Barra and it would be my guess that the odd fish that are in the southern systems have come down from the Mary. If they were breeding , we would be catching juvie Barra in castnets.

On the topic of releasing them, the old bloke probably didn't have a camera on him and thought his mates would think he was full of crap if he didn't bring it home.

Cheers,

Nick

Some were caught and kept, a week into the closed season last year just inside the mouth. They weren't bad fish either. There was 3 in the school, 2 were shot by a spearo, illegally of course!

[Didley]

Some were caught and kept, a week into the closed season last year just inside the mouth. They weren't bad fish either. There was 3 in the school, 2 were shot by a spearo, illegally of course!

How did they taste, Ffejy

[SeaHunt]

Must be global warming, the Crocs and Barra are moving South.

[Didley]

I think they’ve always been there, if the number of people fishing the Noosa R. has multiplied 20 times, it makes a once in 10 year event, a twice a year event (doesn’t it). Plus Ffejy’s aim is improving next year he’ll get 3 from 3. Sorry Ffej, just kidding, I’m sure it wasn’t U

[nickstock]

Some were caught and kept, a week into the closed season last year just inside the mouth. They weren't bad fish either. There was 3 in the school, 2 were shot by a spearo, illegally of course!

Hi mate,

Thanks for that info. I moved back up to North Queensland about 3 years ago. Were they silver barra?