Barra blitz on the Fitz
Submitted by Dicko on Tue, 2011-05-17 14:34
As some may have known already, 3 FW members: Myself, Marky and Percula were off to Cone Bay for a week.
Well the weather turned sour and we called it off. Travelling 50km in 25kn+ Easterlies in 2 tinnies was suicide!!!
Instead, we camped 3 nights at Telegraph pool we we were treated to some HOT barra action.
We had 32 hookups which resulted in 19 landed fish. We kept a points tally, had beer-skulls for F-ups and great a fantastic time.
No meterey's, 3 in the 90's and only 5 under 80cm, boy these fish were FAT! All taken on lures, with trebles crushed!
The snag in the structurescan pic produced many of the big fish. The scoreboard was Marky-7, Dicko-6, Percula-6....Enjoy!
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Joodles
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Mate what a dream session,
Mate what a dream session, that place looks awesome and how fat and healthy do those bazzas look. That would have been joy fun with a heap of cold tinnies!! Well done on plan B.
crasny1
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Awesome pics
Great fishing trip. But why is the drink holders empty on many of the shots????
The first Jumping barra looks very lightly hooked. Did it stay connected?
Neels
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Dicko
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I'm not sure
I'm not sure if it stayed connected, there were many hookups to remember!!!
As for the drink holders, I guess we just didn't put our drinks down!? lol
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Nauti Buoy
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Nice fish
Looks like you blokes had a ball- would have been much better than being belted by 25knot winds heh. Some nice pics in the report!
big john
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Quality
Great work guys, good to see a back up plan come together.
I bet you where singing that song displayed in the bottom pic quite often.
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Dicko
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hahaha
yes, well the Sonic-hub sure picked a winner for the pic, but since most of them were big girls and everything they did was magic...not a bad choice!!!!
nana nana nana nana fishing!!!
mallesh
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That is gold.
What a trip guys. Should thank the easterly winds.
Keep Fishing. Stay Relaxed.
Adam Gallash
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sick
Sick stuff fellas, top photos to boot. Nice when the back up plan produces the goods.
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championruby
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Some beauties there, would
Some beauties there, would have fooled me if you had dropped the 1 metre mark.
soupster51
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Awesome
Great trip and some top pictures to remember it by.
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jamesconnelly85
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Ultra Jealous. Good effort
Ultra Jealous. Good effort
worldfisher
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Nice work guys! some awesome
Nice work guys! some awesome fish there! can say i'm a tad envious of all that top barra action
All the best
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PilbaraBrad
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very nice lads, top fish, top
very nice lads, top fish, top pics top report all round well done!
till
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Some top fish there guys!
Some top fish there guys!
PattyT
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Looks like a great trip
Looks like a great trip fella's!! To bad about Cone Bay though but ah well.
Hopefully you can get us onto some fish in Broome Marky
Spicey
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Great photos and it's a top
Great photos and it's a top spot. Have had some memorable times there myself.
Daisy
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Great trip fellas, gotta luv
Great trip fellas, gotta luv Telegraph when it's on, was it still running at all?
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Dicko
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yep still running out
Looks to be slowing just a touch, but definitley still flowing out. Water was surprisingly cold, 22.9 in the mornings but they were still on the chew!!!
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Daisy
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Yeah I'm sure those fish have
Yeah I'm sure those fish have got thicker blood up there, have caught plenty of Telegraph fish in sub twenties. Good onya fellas.
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Gricko
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definitely blitz it, looking
definitely blitz it, looking at this trip makes us all jealous. top trip thanks for the read.
All this working keeps getting in the way of fishing!
Marky
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Yep was an awesome session
Yep was an awesome session and probly one of the best. The decent wet season we had has certainly showed us that already with heaps of big fish landed and also hooked and dropped over a coupla days.
Honourable mentions go to Dicko for being an awesome nett jobs.. (Mr Net) & also Dave for landing his first barra and then topping it with several more and PB at 94cm....
Was great few days with good mates and a few beers/rums too... HDS10 and Structurre Scan is amazing and how clear it shows up barra on the screen...
Was good to see a fish and then have a hook up 3 secs later....
Also Dicko and Dave shitting themselves when getting upclose and personal with a sleepy croc on the bank... classic.
Bloody cold at night too.... Havent worn a jumper for a while till then...
No elusive metery's but although Dicko definantly hooked one that was a horse.... Big fish but unfortunantly didnt stay hooked after smoking Dicko...(little bit gay too on the elton john)
Plenty of skulls too... Dont know how I ended up with the most but??
All in all a good trip.
crasny1
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Just out of interest, and ignorrance
Where is Cone Bay and Telegraph Pool. Heard this latter one mentioned a few times, therefor i suspect it is sort off out there fishing wise. Telegraph Pool I suspect is down river from Fitzroy Crossing and from your discription must be pretty close to the sea. But at the end, I have ignoramous stamped on my head.
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Billcollector
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Cone Bay out from Derby,
Cone Bay out from Derby, Telegragh is between the highway and the river mouth, easily accesible unfortunately judging by the amount of caravans already along that part of the river.
Marky
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Yea when we left there were 7
Yea when we left there were 7 tinnys in Tele and a heap at langee's and we passed a few more on our way out too heading that way...
krabman
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MAGIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THATS ONE AWSOME FEW DAYS YOU GUYS HAD!DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE.CANT WAIT 4 MY NEXT TIME TO LAND A BARRA OR 2 OR 3 MAGIC STUFF WELL DONE.
Percula
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yeah
Fantastic trip hey!
Was so much fun and we had a great time!
My biggest barra was 94cm - PB! Awesome awesome awesome! Just can't explain how much fun it was! Trolling along and then 90cms of muscle jumps out of brown water, just magic!
As soon as a fish was hooked and it wasn't mine, I grabbed the camera to try and get some shots! Thats why dicko is mr net haha cos he netted all the fish for us!