The Pilbara never ceases to amaze me
Today my friend Mark (Lizardo) and I were able to get up a local Pilbara creek to chase some barras. The strange weather of late resulted in tough fishing. However there were a few things that happened that I made the day special.
We were lucky enough to be joined by Brucester and his mate Garath. We entered the creek to the sight of Bruce slipping the net under a large queen fish that seemed to cause Gareth a fair bit of grief. After several hours of towing lures around ourselves, Mark connected to a nice mid size baz. We placed a tag in the fish and released it. About half an hour later mark hooked up again. As I netted his second fish I noticed the fish had been previously tagged... by us. It was the same fish. And it was a at the other end of the trawl run from where it was first captured. It’s good to know that all the effort we go to looking after these fish with fish friendly nets, supporting the belly when lifting etc actually does work.
The rest of the day saw us, and every other boat that was in the creek, flog a dead horse. The creek was lifeless. It was a vast difference from my previous experiences in this creek this season. On the way home I stopped by a reliable reef to pick up a cod or two for dinner. I caught one that was looking very healthy. After I took the fillets of, out of interest, I opened the stomach and was amazed by what I found. A whole blue swimmer crab. Not sure how the cod thought it was going to fit my lure in its guts as well.
Cheers
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Nauti Buoy
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Cool
Good work, the Barra must have been hungry. Do you tag all of the Barra you catch?
Brucesta
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not wrong it being a strange
not wrong it being a strange day up the creek mate, bloody hard slog for not very much, at least we hooked one all be it for about 2 secs. The stop off explains why you where just pulling out of the ramp when we got there. Bet you slept well last night but!
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hornet42
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A bad day on the water
A bad day on the water is better then a good day at work.
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pricey10
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Still got a baz and feed its
Still got a baz and feed its hard to complain there! R u guys heading out over the next couple of days?
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Webby
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Nauti bouy, mark tags his
Nauti bouy, mark tags his fish, i haven't got around to joining the fishing club yet, but when i do i will tag all my fish. brucey after being awake for like 32 hours i slept awesome haha and pricey yeah mate, ill be out again tomorrow. Not sure which creek tho. And there is no complaining by us mate. I'm actualy more stoked because we got a couple despite the cicumstances. Makes it more meaningful IMO
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pricey10
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The weathers lookin mint for
The weathers lookin mint for the rest of the week. I'm gonna head out wide. Gotta catch that 10k red before the world ends next week lol
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Webby
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haha I need that Mdog
haha I need that Mdog
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pricey10
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Good luck with the mdog.
Good luck with the mdog. Tight Lines!
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mullows
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Nice result Webby amd Lizard,
Nice result Webby amd Lizard, sounds like a tough day but did good in the end. It is amazing what the old brown trout can get down their gob and still wanna eat some more! Hope the metery's happen for ya Webby and a 10kg red comes up for ya Pricey. Love the Pilbara hey, what a place!!!!!
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Brucesta
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good luck boys, i'll be at
good luck boys, i'll be at work :(
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pricey10
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You didn't miss much
You didn't miss much bruceta. Willy weather got it so wrong! Got 2kms from the ramp and turned around. I hope u had better luck webby
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Webby
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Yeah we had a good day mate.
Yeah we had a good day mate. Could only do about 8knots getting to the creek but once that wind dropped and the sun came out we were able to get 3 bazz and a heap of bycatch. No mdog unfortunatly haha. spewin you had to bail mate. was pretty average early on.
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Brucesta
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bloody shift workers.....
bloody shift workers..... nice one mate!
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Webby
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swings and roundabouts mate
swings and roundabouts mate
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crasny1
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Well done anyway
Like Poor old Brucesta Stuck at work, and now the boats down south LB when I can get a fish. Some youngster kept me entertained by not listening about sharp Oysters. I will try and download the outcome.
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krabman
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Flogged a dead horse too
Friday was a great day up the creek but sat and sun we flogged a dead horse as well except for a nice 80 cm black Jew a threadie on the troll and the usual by catch of jacks n cod .got a few muddies and sand fly bites as well.