Weekend fish

hey lads

went out for a fish on the weekend managed a few barra.. thursday i got the little one witch was 600 and we also dropped a little one that would of been 400.

friday i got another small one around 720, didnt get a photo but as the camera went flat.

we were only out for a few hours each day as we only wanted to fish the tide changes!

 saterday arvo me and another mate decided to load up the esky and head out for another crack, this time we were going to throw a few live baits around and see if we could entice any bigger fish. latley i have only been using real small mullet, no bigger than a lighter witch has been paying dividends, i find that with small live bait big barra tend to smash it alot harder and the hook up rates using a small circle hook is 100% better than a normal hook.

after getting about 20 odd livies (all pissants) we went to a mates spot and through out a few baits, after a few small touches but nothing in the boat after a few beers i pulled in and changed my bait, and the very next cast i had a solid run and hooked up, as i was only using my small millionare 253 the barra steamed up the creak. after a bit of percistance we got him to the boat and realised why it didnt jump, FOUL HOOKED!! argh... so i back of the tension and eased him up! we landed him and took a quike snap and let him go, as i left my brag mat at home we only had a small fish sticker to measure him with and he went somewere between 850 and 900..

 The next bait my mate through out resulted in the same thing, this time pinning the barra in the top jaw bone...

two big barra landed and two big smiles gleeming from both our faces.. we also managed a nice jack and two fingermark from the same spot.. next bait out was a stinking cattie............... enough said, we packed up and went home!


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some good barra there and

Mon, 2008-11-10 19:53

some good barra there and great report, very envious well done

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Coupla nice fish there

Mon, 2008-11-10 19:55

Coupla nice fish there fellas
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Excellent

Mon, 2008-11-10 20:07

Great stuff there Plastic Freak.

Your photo's look a bit hazy on my screen, are they off a camera phone?

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yeah hazy here too, would

Mon, 2008-11-10 20:09

yeah hazy here too, would say a camera phone for sure

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yeah mate camera phone was

Mon, 2008-11-10 20:12

yeah mate camera phone was our last resort!heading out tommorow after work for another crack

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nice fish mate, I was up at

Tue, 2008-11-11 07:36

nice fish mate,

I was up at cossack over the weekend chasing some barra.

Did hookup 2, and saw atleast another 2.

Unfortunately the runs were short lived.

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Nice Barra...

Tue, 2008-11-11 08:36

In 22 days I'll hopefully be in on that action!

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Well done ! !! !!!

Tue, 2008-11-11 08:37

Will have my boat soon and be getting into it.

 

GOOD STUFF

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good stuff lads, nice couple

Tue, 2008-11-11 08:40

good stuff lads, nice couple a fish thats for sure

hey plastic, i changed from circles for the same sort of reason mate although of late t dosnt seem to have done me any good anyway, also found in the middle of he season when you tend to use bigger livies that the circle part of the hook often embedded itself back into the side of the mullet resulting in more dropped fish, have you had the smae sort of problem??

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yeah i had that problem a

Tue, 2008-11-11 16:11

yeah i had that problem a bit but i only use small lives as stated befor..

if i get a few bigger livies i tend to hook them in the bottom jaw. they swim alot differant  but i find the hook ups are alot better.. i still recon the best bait for them is a big barra tilson mullet colour :)