Well Brad, Glenn and I headed up the coast for a day trip chasing some barra yesterday. It was fairly calm in the morning but the water was quite lumpy due to the weather being quite crap for a while now. When we got there we decided to try and get some bait but the tide was still too high so we opted for a bit of a trolling session.



I got a few hits during the troll but no good hookups. Brad hooked what we originally thought was a small rat barra but it turned out to be a little giant threadfin. Released.







After a few trolling runs the tide had fallen a fair bit so it was time to get some bait. Brad and I went in opposite directions then met up further down the creek. I hadn't really caught much but Brad had found where all the mullet were hiding out and had gotten quite few. I proceeded to cast around in the same area and it wasn't long before we heaps of bait so we started fishing.



It was very hot so after the lines went out Glenn decided it as time for a swim and a beer.







It was fairly quiet for a while but we still had heaps of tide to go out. Brad got a little hit and pulled in a reasonable jack around 42cm.







It was very quiet until the turn of the tide. I got a solid hit and hooked a nice little barra about 60cm but it spat the hook on the first jump, spewin!



Soon after Brad had a bit better hit and hooked up. It erupted out of the water and we realised it was a respectable barra. A nice little fight followed and then we had the first for the day in the net, estimated around 70cm. A few snaps and then he was on his way.







About 5-10 minutes later Brad hooked up again and another barra blitzed out of the water, this time a bit better in size. I went to wind in one of the other lines when it was nailed by a queenie. It was a bit hectic as we had a queenie/barra double hookup and fish jumping all over the place.



 Brad did very not to lose this fish as it took him under the anchor and some good rodwork skills ensured he landed his second of the day, 80cm.







Glenn was next to hookup, the hit was solid and the run consistent with typical barra behaviour but it turned out to a be a nice queenie, very golden in colours.







After that it went very quiet and we ran out of livies. I started flicking strip baits into the snags for not much apart from a flattie, a few catties, bream and some cod. I was hoping for a decent jack but it was not to be.



By this stage the tide had come in enough for us to head out of the creek so we headed home. It had blown up to about 20 knots so it was a pretty rough and slow trip home.



Congrats to Brad for his barra duo, he caught the most fish - again