fishing on the weekend

[PimmsPythons]

get down to the Boyne or pikes crossing if your after barra Benny.literally thousands at the moment since they came over the dam wall.we have been getting 5-20 barra a night.more of a chance getting barra than bream and they are quite big to. the majority are in the 90cm-100cm range with plenty of bigger ones turning up as well .
cheers
simon

 

[chickensnake]

hahah take me with you simon? pleeease

 

[waruikazi]

Right, I'm guessing you go for all the cheap lures??? lol

I only use barra classics, RMG scorpions (hard bodies) and squidgies (soft plastics). You need to get a range of colours and sizes, once you have used them all you will come up with one or two colours and a specific size that work for you over anything else in your spot.

Out here it is black and gold in 120mm hard body, green in 98mm hard body and drop bear or black and gold or green in 60-80mm soft plastic.

I hate soft plastics, i drop so many fish on them but sometimes it is all that will work. I find they work best moving with the current worked really slowly on the bottom and hard bodies in a very jerky slow-medium retrieve. You will probably find that the fish will hit your lure when it is stationary in the water for split seconds between jerks.

And i've tried the whole single hook thing. I don't like it, yeah you don't drop as many fish but you don't get nearly as many hook ups. In the end i think you catch more on trebles.

 

[longqi]

Gotta agree about milkfish but thats a pretty specialised technique that usually most people will never try
I reckon they go as hard and fast as bonefish
Very much an under-utilised fishery
Those huge fork tailed cats they get in the Ord just slug it out and never give in
Big silver jobbies that fight a lot like bronze whalers using every bit of current etc

 

[waruikazi]

Oh and when the fish are being really quiet that is generally a sign to go for a smaller lure.

But try live bait.... oh so much easier.

 

[chickensnake]

ok, thanks il catch some liveys tomorrow and see how i go

 

[waruikazi]

Gotta agree about milkfish but thats a pretty specialised technique that usually most people will never try
I reckon they go as hard and fast as bonefish
Very much an under-utilised fishery
Those huge fork tailed cats they get in the Ord just slug it out and never give in
Big silver jobbies that fight a lot like bronze whalers using every bit of current etc

I agree they are a very underrated game fish that no one seems to know about. We get them by the thousand in Darwin because fo the fish feeding and are all trained to eat bread. But i'm sure you could bearly them up anywhere on bread. A little size 2 chemically sharpened Gamakastu suicide hook, 20lb fluro carbon leader and a shampagne cork is all it takes. I've seen them caught upto 9kg and have been spooled on my curado by what would have to be larger ones.

ok, thanks il catch some liveys tomorrow and see how i go

And with livies bigger is better! Go for about 150mm.

 

[PimmsPythons]

we are catching them on all sorts of lures from x raps to rmg's to soft plastics but they seem to favour anything that resembles a mullet.here is a photo of the barra coming over the awoonga dam wall and photos of a few of the typical size barra that are there.

 

[longqi]

If they are real quiet a live prawn past snags usually gets them going

 

[kawasakirider]

I'm jealous of all of you. I love fishing, but I never have any luck, don't know what I'm doing.