whats the best live bait rig for Barra

[shallows]

Can anyone advise the best live bait rig for Barra. A prawn hooked
in the last joint or a live mullet under a float. What do you think

[Big_unit]

Sounds to me like you have answered your own question. Either of those is fine or trying a lure is the only other thing I can think of.

Cheers
James

[Rod_Bender]

What about running sinker rig or Dropper rig. I prefer mullet with the hook through its nose rather then its back. This will stop the mullet spinning around and drowning. Roddy

[Missing_FNQ]

Living for a fair amount of time in Weipa, I have caught barra on a mushed up piece of whiting that had previously caught a catfish to using 100lb handline with an 8/0 hook with live herring from the top of the train bridge............then after moving back to the hometown on the Burdekin River, a tail-hooked mullet on flooded mudflats was main course for barra.

My point???.................anything thats live (and sometimes dead) works............just depends on how the fish is feeling at the time...........
If hes full ya got no hope (from that train bridge you could watch the barra move out of the way of a live prawn being floated past).........
If hes hungry then just do what my wife did and drop a piece of squid into snags (4 legal barra) while two of us guys using live prawn and mullet got nothing........(couldnt make her swim home from 15 kays up the river in Weipa)

Hook placement, type of rig, floats, scents, live/dead bait, lures will all take barra but its finding out which one at that particular time works is the key...........Mix it up and try different things.............Im going fishing tomorrow for undersize squire with ShaneJ (using 3 kilo outfit and gonna have fun throwing them back).........but I have so many different plastics to try at least I`m not gonna get bored

Cheers
Mick

[Big_unit]

Make sure Shane doesnt catch any Wobbygongs

Cheers
James

[ShaneJ]

I'll smack a wobbygong around ya head!

[Big_unit]

Whenever ya ready funny man Ill tear ya arm off and slap ya silly with the wet end.

[DaveSue_Fishos_Two]

Any of the above seem to work for barra from my experience. I was at my local tackle and bait shop the other morning and a bloke came in to weigh a barra he had caught the night before at Pt Alma. The barra weighed 18kgs and was 117cms long. He caught it on a 7cm dead mullet.

Cheers
Dave