Barra and Flatties

[Try Hard]

Gday guys,

Had a productive little session down at the local today with the boys. Things started nicely with a few small flatties and GTs being caught within the first half hour. Most fish fell to Stiffy Minnows and Gulp Shrimp.

Only tiny as you can see...






We got sick of catching tackers so we decided to move up to the ol barra snag. I don't know how we managed to catch barra in the cold conditions but heck...we weren't complaining!

They started small...









By now we had gotten the technique down pat - the trick was to work the Stiffy Minnow as slow as possible. Ideally we would cast as close to the snag as possible; crank the lure down to its operating depth with a couple of draws of the rod; pause the lure for up to 10 seconds before commencing a slow, jerky retrieve that allowed the barra to study the lure for a bit then finaly crunch it!

Joel nailed his first wild saltwater barra shortly after we perfected this technique...




This fish took some bloody wrangling - watched the chrome flash as he hit the lure then tore off through the tree and decided it would be cool to jump on the backside of the snag! A low rod angle and lot of luck managed to get this 41cm fish...



What Stiffy Minnow...hmmm...I think I might re-tie my leader...



Soon after I released that fish Joel was into another one. This time it was a bit better than the runts we'd been catching. At 45cm it was a great effort on 2lb Crystal...



After we had landed the seventh barra they went off the bite so we called it a day and decided on Domino's for lunch!

Cheers Isaac

[Dylan G]

Awesome work boys, amazing how narrow the creek gets and you still pulling the fish out, Top effort!
Cheers Dylan.

[chook]

awsome action good to see the barra still there.

Cheers Brook

[kevin]

great quality bream there champ

[tailorboi99]

Good job mate, you're loving the Stiffy Minnows I can see .

Tom

[adidaspeteman]

I'll have to get a stiffy or two!

[Try Hard]

Cheers guys,

Dylan - You think thats narrow champ?! Should see right up the top of Vines...she's about as wide a Joel's boat lol. Choc full of Jacks up there but...gotta be a baito to get em but

Brook - Yer they go them lil barra mate...dunno where they were last weekend mate. Joel must have been right...ya did put em off!

Kev - I got no idea what your on about mate.

Tom - Sure am mate...they slay em up here. I wonder how long the fish will take to wise up to em?

Pete - LOL! You guys even have em in shops down there? I woulda though they'd be too busy selling all the pro bream lures. We can't even buy an SX40 up here...its depressing. Gotta do internet orders every couple of weeks!

[blue_mako]

You're mad. I'll trade some Threadies for some Barra?

Troy

[Didley]

What a local waterway, you lucky bugger

[Talina]

& THE FISH MAGNETS STRIKE AGAIN!!!

Good job fella's....You always know you've had a good session when you get stuck into the little barras like that! Especially at this time of the year as normally they are little sooks cause its soooo cold (The fish that is )

Just another day in North Queensland Paradise hey