Bli Bli barra park

[Chamelion]

Hi all,

Spent the day at the Barra park... My wife caught a 60cm model not long after we started on one of my immitation X-RAPs. It went quiet for a while with no more real hits on lures for a couple of hours... So we decided to try some crystal bay prawns that we bought from coles not expecting to do any good.

Well, it all fired up from that point on and we were hooking up for the rest of the day... Everyone else wasn't having a whole lot of luck and we were starting to hear people grumble whenever we hooked up (grow up and come over, we'd have told you our 'secret'!).

Tally:

me - 2 barra (56 and 60cm), 2 bream (40cm and 42cm), 1 cod (55cm)
mrs - 2 barra (60 and 57cm, 1 bream (about 40ish cm), 1 mullet (51cm)
dad - 2 barra (59cm and 61cm)
daughter - 1 cod (37cm)

Between us - 13-14 bust offs via cut leaders (most 20lb mono, a couple of 14lb fluro.. thanks for that Nuggstar), 3 dropped from lures via head shakes and jumps, 2-3 spat bait hooks.

My 4yo son wasn't too interested, choosing to spend more time playing in the sand... he did have a fight with a nice size barra that I'd guess at 60-65cm, but he lost it at the edge... He nearly cried, but I gave him a heap of praise and he came good.

The mullet my mrs hooked was insane.. She was using 12lb mono with the drag wound up quite tight and it was going on some very impressive runs.. ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzz, lol. Fantastic...

After today I think I'll still go there over winter, even if the barra arent biting the other fish make up for it.

Quality of pics a bit iffy due to crappy mobile phone.

Oh, my biggest barra was landed on a Daiwa Proshooter 2-8lb 7ft IM7 rod, Daiwa Exceler 1500 reel, 10lb mojiko superstring braid and an unweighted 2/0 owner suicide hook... My god that was a fight to remember. The toughest I've ever had.

[Chamelion]

More pics...

I did take tail pics after some of the fish to show size, but my silly phone has numbered them all over the place, so they're not in order.

[Chamelion]

Oh, the 55cm cod... When I landed him he already had two of my hooks in his gut, plus the one I landed him on. So that bugger was reponsible for at least two of our bust offs!

If anyone retrieves any owner 1/0, 2/0 suicides or noname dodgy looking silver baitholder hooks from the mouths of these fish, please return them to me.

[setthehook]

good stuff!! some great family fun there! Where is this place? Is it a sectioned off waterway ? Doe sit cost to fish there?

[Chamelion]

Yeah, it does cost... http://www.wakeboardskipark.com/site/fishingpark/

It's in the grounds of the ski and skurf park.

Matt.

[setthehook]

cheers mate just checked it out looks like a good family day out in the future!!

[Mitchoo]

nice effort mate
that mullet is huge howd he way
were all the fish caught in the big boys pond

[Chamelion]

We didn't weigh any of the fish, but he wasn't exactly a lightweight... All fish were caught in 'catch and keep Barra creek'.

Matt.

[Cervinator]

sounds alrite mate but the start of last year me and my mate were getting like 20 to 30 barra on plastics hard bodies and poppers we didnt use anything but lures and we always got over 20 each so yea it must not b as good as it used to be aye

cheers cervi

[bludog]

Great stuff mate sounds like you and the family had a ball, exactly what its all about.

[flip1906]

Well I feel ripped off mate after my one fish the day before , nice work all the family look forward to my girls getting a little older. I must of miss heard the young fella on saturday thought only the big dam had mixed species and the other two were barra will keep that in mind.

[imnotoriginal]

Those mullet go hard, harder than any of the barra for their size. Nice stuff mate, good to see you getting the kids interested in fishing.
Joel

[stack]

Nice one mate wait till you get a big one onthe light gear round the 90 mark,damn thats tiring even in the pond

[Keechie]

Well I feel ripped off mate after my one fish the day before , nice work all the family look forward to my girls getting a little older. I must of miss heard the young fella on saturday thought only the big dam had mixed species and the other two were barra will keep that in mind.

hey i think i met you at the barra park, i was fishing surface lure most of the day, and you borrowed the net off my uncle at one stage. (i was there with a mate and my uncle.)

well done soudns like fun.

[nuggstar]

i want keechies surface lure, its the barra buster hehehehe. good to see ya again. il hang on to that lure ya lost matt, once i paddle out there and get it, but it may have some new mysterious battle scars on it. did the dude next to ya get his lure off that tree hehehe.