Just returned from my annual sojurn chasing Barra up in the territory. It was a bumper ruin off this year so I had higher than usual expectations.
The day I arrived my mate, Wayne ,caught 90 on the Adelaide after spending a couple of weeks prospecting and working the place out on his annual leave which always just happens to coincide with the run off.
He didn't disappoint either going straight to a favourite little ledge. After tying off to a branch that should have his name on it we pulled about fifteen good sized barra out in next to no time. Mainly he pulled them out because its all about having the right lures and the correct depth. Among my two boxes of lures I didn't have anyso I grabbed Waynes rod when he put it down to have a smoke and a coffee, which is about every 5 minutes. About that time we noticed an escaped lure floating past, it was quickly captured.
We fished a few other spots and finished with about 40 barra up to 750 for the day. Guess what turned out to be the best lure...the battered one we found that found its way to my rod...
We did a lot of casting at one spot for a barra every five minutes or so. It was interesting to notice how the barra changed their preference for different lures at different times of the tide. For some reason the shallower guns and roses did better than the deeper one. Then it would go to a deep diver killalure. You could spend a lifetime, and I wish I could, working out those elusive barra. On the Daly they move with the tide long distances and the bite can be red hot for a while then things will move on to the next place.
A bunch of blokes greeted us with a big smile as we were leaving the area thanking Wayne for putting them onto some good fish earlier in the day. I think they had a ball on the right trolling run and caught fish most of the day.
Next it was off to the Daly with another mate Chris his child bride and newborn for a week and staying at a nice air conditioned house on the river and a walk to the boat. Luxury. We found our own little creek mouth about 80 ks downstream near clear creek which we worked over with lures and cheribin for the next few days. It was a matter of sorting out at what time of the tide the fish would come on which was when there was a clear deliniation/ water colour change at the creek mouth. The biggest we got there was a 850 with plenty of 750's which was more than enough for me but apparently just rats for Dan5 who should have a report on soon about chasing his metery's.
While we were trolling near Elizabeth creek on one of the last days we heard lots of wooping coming from a boat at the mouth with a cry of horse so someone got onto a biggun.
All except one of my fish was caught on that battered old classic gun's and roses that we found on the first day so thanks to whoever donated it.
A big thanks to Chris for donating part of his shirt for use as a bandage when a hook got in the way of my thumb and that big croc in the pic that gave me an uneasy feeling once we finally noticed it just a few meters from the boat.
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Originally Posted by albey
