Barra trip up North
Here's a few photos from our recent trip to Northern Territory.
This poor girl was floundering in the shallows. We went and grabbed her to find a gold bomber hooked into her pharyngial teeth. After a quick bit of surgery and over half an hour reviving her she swam away.......105cm........ 5 mins later a bloody shark was shredding her 
That evening I scored this one on a Halco Roosta Popper. Was 98 or 99cm if I recall correctly.
When the tides were right, we caught a lot of fish pushing the metre mark
I was happy to get this one using a lure which was hand carved from wood by one of my mates in SA
Another nice bessie
Most of our fish were caught on RMG scorpions
We called into Telegraph Pool on the way home and struggled to find fish, this by far our biggest here
This little fella was lucky. We let him go unharmed. It was interesting to see a large bungarra digging up a croc nest and eating the babies. we could hear them calling their mum for help, but she did not show up!
Back to work now 
Cardinal
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hell yeah. very nice barras. sick looking those baby crocs
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Nice on Mate
Daisy's beard is getting wilder by the day
. Some nice bazza's there.
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Excellent
Excellent fishing pale ale. Did you get most fish on the troll or casting at structure/runoff?
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awesome fishing!
awesome fishing!
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pale ale
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There was a variety of
There was a variety of methods, but as usual most of the bigger fish were caught trolling large lures. If you are not familiar with the "mackerel trolling", it is awesome. On the spring tides, masses of mullet come up the river on the rising tide. This encourages all the barra to patrol the open waters hunting 10 inch mullet. Put on a large lure eg laser pro or scorpion and troll up the guts of the river at mackerel speed!..... Hang on tight, as when you hook a metery trolling at 4 knots it is an awesome experience.
The one I got on the roosta popper was my PB surface barra, so was probably the highlight for me.
We caught many more fish, these are the only photos I had on my phone.
Habanero
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Bewdy
Good Fish , good pic's , good ol RMG's in 90dd in king brown is my fav barra lure especially on the Ord..
damo6230
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Well done mate
Looks like a killer trip.
Thats a problem with tired fish as sharks are cleaning then up in numbers :( Valent effort though :)
Maccie Barra trolling certainly pulls big fish !!
pale ale
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Found another photo on my
Found another photo on my phone
Marky
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Some good fish there Pale
Some good fish there Pale Ale, looks like you did a lot better than some of boats fishing the comps in Darwin recently...
Those little crocs are everywhere up the fitzroy river now hey...
uncle
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some very nice barra there
would have been fun
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pale ale
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We were fishing the
We were fishing the comp.......
Fishing was going great before the comp, when the mullet were coming up on the large tides.
Once the tides were smaller, and the mullet were all gone, fishing was extremely difficult. Some boats never had a bite over 5 days of fishing
Yep, quite few little crocs in Fitzy. A few less now that the bloody big bungarra dug up the nest and ate the babies. I managed to get a bit of footage on my video camera but have lost all my usb cables so cant share the video.
Marky
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Yep it wouldve been a long 5
Yep it wouldve been a long 5 days for no fish thats for sure.... Im sure you all wouldve made up for it on alcohol though... :)
pricey10
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Some quality barra there
Some quality barra there mate and some bloody good size to them as well! Now I know where jays been hiding
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Barra
Epic trip. Some quality barra in those pics.
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