Borroloola NT March 2014
Submitted by BarraSlayer on Mon, 2014-06-09 22:00
Here are some pictures from my March Trip to my folks place at Borroloola, 260km east of the NT/QLD boarder in the Gulf or Carpentaria. The bigger fish are land based, fishing the Macarthur River crossing 2kms from town. Using mostly soft plastic with a very slow retrieve either at sunset or sunrise. Chronarch e7200 & G Loomis 5 8'. Got a couple of pigs too which was a bonus.
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big john
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Nice work
Nice work barra slayer. Good fish and some proud as punch pooches.
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Ben Derecki
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That looks like some allround
That looks like some allround fun there.
I was up that direction this time last year, wanted to head up to Borroloola from Gregory Downs but from all reports the track was pretty average and we weren't quite kitted out for pretty average so we went the long way round - back to Burke and Wills and around from there. Sounds (and looks) like a pretty special part of Oz.
Cheers for the pics bs.
dkonig82
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very nice mate - good to see
very nice mate - good to see some pigs too!
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EL SYD
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good stuff barraslayer.
good stuff barraslayer. Borroloola best landbased barra spot full stop.....spewing about my other spot
will have to catch up with your old man near the end of the year,
BarraSlayer
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Hey Syd, the big ones start
Hey Syd, the big ones start travelling then! December is usually good. I use the bom website river gauge on Macarthur river to tell me what the river is doing I.e. don't want to arrive to full flow & dropping couple of days after first decent rain is really good (1.7m to 2.5m) is a good height.
If you go earlier the are awesome spots further down the Savannah Way road at the Robinson and Culvert Rivers.
Cheers
BarraSlayer
Mad fisherboy
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Just a question
What do u do with the feral hogs?
There really bad up there aren't they?
BarraSlayer
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Normally just take the whole
Normally just take the whole head or bottom jaw as a trophy and leave the rest for the others and dingos to eat. Also if you come back a few days later it brings more pigs in. There's heaps of pigs but also heaps of water so don't see as many as u would like.
Cheers
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Coity
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Awesome mate, looks like a
Awesome mate, looks like a good spot!
dkonig82
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those pigs no good to
those pigs no good to eat?
Or just too hard to lug them out?
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Saulty2
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nice catch there guys
did you stay at king ash bay ,or close to?