Finally joined the metre club

Finally joined the metre club

Cracked my first metre plus barra a few weeks ago in the Kimberley casting a Classic Barra 120 3' up the end of a small creek. Put up a good fight but no jumps. She was a fat girl and unfortunatly we didn't have a camera or measure with us so the decision was made to keep her. She had no roe when we cleaned her and a empty stomach. Last one kept for me I reckon. My mate also got a 93cm casting a Classic 97 down near the mouth.


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Tim Jefferson! Cracking

Fri, 2009-03-06 07:55

Tim Jefferson!

Cracking fish, would have fed the whole crew.
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awesome feeling hey

Fri, 2009-03-06 08:59

awesome feeling hey mate

good stuff, nice looking silver barra!

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CONGRATS

Sun, 2009-03-08 09:55

Fair photo of the month contender there, how much over the meter did she go?

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club!

Sun, 2009-03-08 11:34

Nice metery Tim, congrats.......one hell of a fish!

 

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Big girl

Sun, 2009-03-08 11:39

She's definitely a big girl. You know there good fish when the scales are the size of 50c coins.

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great catch dude what did

Sun, 2009-03-08 20:26

great catch dude what did measure

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Fantastic barra Tim

Mon, 2009-03-09 06:07

Fantastic barra Tim

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Oh yeah! Nice one

Mon, 2009-03-09 15:30

Oh yeah!
Nice one

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Thanks fellas. She was 106cm

Mon, 2009-03-09 18:09

Thanks fellas. She was 106cm long so cracked it good and proper. Plenty still in the freezer if you want me to bring some up Brody.

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That's a great Barra

Tue, 2009-03-10 10:23

Agree with Adam on the photo of the month contender. I love to see a happy fisherman.

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A doozy!

Tue, 2009-03-10 11:35

Tried all last Thursday at Ivanhoe Crossing and the Dunham but nary a one over 450mm. Great fun though with the only downside being the bottles, nappies and other garbage dumped all along the riverbanks and even at the freshwater swimming holes.

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metrey barra

Tue, 2009-03-10 11:48

superb catch, yeah too fat to jump.   Does the flesh get coarse when they are that big?

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Tinny

Tue, 2009-03-10 16:01

Ian, have you got access to a tinny in Kununurra?

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I was suprised how good the

Tue, 2009-03-10 19:52

I was suprised how good the flesh was. I've cooked it up a number of different ways and all have come up great, not coarse at all. Still, wouldn't kill another one. Always gonna have the measure and camera nearby from now on.

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great fish

Thu, 2009-06-11 07:25

got to get up there

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great fish Tim

Thu, 2009-06-11 07:40

outstanding effort and congrats.

yep FOTM contender

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nah

Thu, 2009-06-11 08:14

Have to minus 8cm off the fish for the gear it was caught on. Laughing

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C'mon, 20lb is sporting

Fri, 2009-06-12 08:09

C'mon, 20lb is sporting Adam. You can minus 4cm for it being a spin reel though.