guzzo
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A while back I was a bit angry at the world and wanted some space…..so ….I decided to do what any bloke in that spot would do and go fishing by himself at night in a remote NT billabong. Well anyway I started out at mid-day and by about 8 at night I had not done too well with only a couple of undersized Barra. At about 10pm I could hear some “boofing” (the sound Barra make when eating something on the surface) so I put on a popper. I cast it out under some pandanas and began to bloop it back to the boat when all of a sudden smash….it was grabbed. At first I thought I had a good barra but a shine of the torch revealed it was a croc. I eventually got it to the boat and was in a bit of a spot. I was using braided line and knew if I did not free this fella and he got away all tangled up he would die. I only saw its snout and as it was wrapped up in the leader line I decided to flip it in the boat to untie it in the torch light………but it was a bit bigger than it first looked. And worse still when it was inside the boat it amazingly got completely free and was very angry at me. I was backed up against the motor facing a fair sized mouth full of teeth but with the help of my esky ,an oar and the anchor rope I managed to apprehend it. The funny thing was that once I had hold of its mouth it let out a growl and then went all floppy. I was able to set up my camera on self-timer to get this pic before letting it go free, just thought I would share this story on a boring old Friday night..View attachment 189100
