The JO bycatch..

After spending about 12 hours casting at and unhooking trees with a few good bumps and one flatty to show for my efforts I was feeling pretty defeated. We headed out again early in the morning to glare at the snags and try hitting some underwater structure... First drift in slight tap hook up heavy headshakes a quick powerfull run and a thrown hook.. I was pretty gutted. We drifted a few more times and bump heavy headshakes silver fish rushed too the surface for a little leap * WTF a barra * as soon as I saw that I backed the drag off a bit and it had some fun with me, Short but powerful runs. I now know what the barra craze is about....Simply unreal

Now I know its closed season for barra but we pulled it out for literally a minute for a quick photo and a measure as it was my first wild barra. ( sure beats the barra farm :P ) It swam off very happily which was good. But I can remove pictures if need be. I am just stoked and like sharing pictures..

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Nice Adam, atleast there are some still there!! They go alright hey? Lol

Well done mate, you can't help accidental bycatch.

Baz

Awesome fish mate,congratulations,you pair certainly did the hard yards..I will ring my mate in the fisheries tomorrow and get the word from the horses mouth,but just read up on the Deedi page i think on that they would be hard pressed to do anything.particularly with a fish not of breeding size.
http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/28_3055.htm

Nice. Gotta be happy with that!
Looks like last wet seasons floods have done wonders for the river. Great winter with the Trevs and now the Barra and Threadies showing up.

Good to see.

Great fish well done, good to see them in the river.

Cheers,
John.

nice adam good to see a few wild fish

shane

On ya Adam! :40_002:

Great to see some reward for your efforts over the weekend that Matt and yourself put in.

very nice indeed!

nice fish adam, :) see ya round the traps....

Great stuff Adam!

Unfortnately, your now infected with the barra bug and will only want more and more......

Cheers,
Roo.

Nice fish, gotta be happy with that
i'd trade a lot of jacks for a barra.
good photo too
congrats

Adam the fish was well cared for and swam off. No worries there. Better to take it in and remove the hooks carefully than thrash its head off in the water trying to get a lure out when the hooks are well imbeded. Good on ya.

Fantastic Fish Adam,

Thats worth coming up for anyday.

Pete

Well done Adam. Great looking fish and just deserts for a hard days flogging the structure.
Guess we will see you at Mondy next ;)
Steve

Was great meeting up with you Adam and the boat looks great. Top fish and well done ensuring it was well cared for a released strong.

are these barra wild an comin down from up north or escapees from the barra park an pets ? guess we will never know

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are these barra wild an comin down from up north or escapees from the barra park an pets ? guess we will never know

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Wild Chris, there are rumors of the netters getting 50 last week so it'd be a hell of a big fish tank. The Noosa has always had a population of barra, it's just now we have the internet everyone knows about it, unfortunately.

thanks dids awesome to hear mate i always knew noosa was the most southern point for barra but it appears they are becomin more an more consistent

as for the netters :mad: how are they allowed to catch that many barra an get away with it ? i know its there job an income but c'mon/ what are they doing with them an what are they meant to be netting?

ps hope your next on the list for one you derserve one

Cheers everyone, Still very stoked made slogging away at those snags feel like nothing as soon as I saw it. I am rather worn out today though and cant wait for bed!.

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Originally Posted by spaded

as for the netters :mad: how are they allowed to catch that many barra an get away with it ? i know its there job an income but c'mon/ what are they doing with them an what are they meant to be netting?

ps hope your next on the list for one you derserve one

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A) There's a lot of people asking those questions

B)Thanks, but I think there are a lot of people on that list before me. A Noosa Barra is at the top of my bucket list or maybe a Gold Coast Barra

very nice barra Adam, great to see you hard casting yards paid off!!

Cheers Steve