awoonga broke my heart

[matt fraser]

matt, i read your report and couldnt believe how many hits you boys had. how 1 of the 6 points on an x rap dont dig into the mouth of a barra still haunts me. especially when your leader is chaffed 5 or 6 inches above the lure. i kept the leaders and hung them up on our barra brag board in the garage just to remind me of the 2 that could have been...

Mate, we did get some hits, and dropped or missed heaps. On the Friday night Mark had eight bites on an XRap, four hooked up very temporarily, either pulling drag or spitting it on the first jump, only one converted ????? Sometimes they are in the mood to eat, and other times it is ridiculously frustrating that you can't get just one hook point to set!!!! In the same time he had eight hits, I got not a bump. Go figure!?

They are bloody frustrating, and you just have to put the time in and take some punishment on the way to success. You are walking that fine line between success and failure, just have to keep trying.

Cheers,

Matt

[flatzie]

Yeah barra fishing is so like that, a week back, in the first 20 mins, I nailed my PB, then for the next 12 hours of fishing couldnt raise a scale, just little thuds and touches, And then lost a metre plus fish 2 mins into the fight, OUCH that hurt!
Flatzie