Afternoon barra session
Headed out to ol' faithful landbased spot #1 this afternoon for a crack at some barra. Weather has been unseasonaly warm for the past week or so, so I felt quietly confident. Struggled to get any livies so I threw out a dead bait and chucked some lures around.
First fish was on the first cast but not the kind of barra I was looking for. A nice little barracuda made his way onto the bank and I unhooked him for a release. As the tide dropped I put on a classic 120 shallow. It wasn't long before I hooked up. Surely this can't be a barra I thought, but once he realised he was hooked he blitzed out of the water and I knew that he was exactly what I was after. After a short tussle a nice little barra around 70cm was on the shore.
Not too many casts later I got a little nudge. At first I thought the lure was on the bottom but then I realised the lure was in fairly deep water. Couple more winds, another nudge. Couple more winds, hooked up. He erupted out of the water. I saw that he wasn't hooked well, he tailwalked across the surface and I saw him spit the lure. Dissapointed but still stoked to get my first barra for the season. It's only going to get better from here!
big john
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John
Adam Gallash
Great fish
Great fish Jay, nice way to crack the new season. Was looking for a good fish today, but only got a few small gts and school macks. Had a few estuaries check out my popper with no luck. Beautiful day thou.
SamC
good fish jay...
good old rob gaden does it again!
bloody good lures those things....
im heading up your way in about 5 weeks...hopefully we can catch up for a fish?
cheers
sam
jay_burgess
Sam
Yes the Rob Gaden Classic Barra is the probably the most well known and most successfull barra lure around, and it proved itself yesterday that's for sure.
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Jay Burgess
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SamC
barra gear
yeh jay i got TD Luna 300 and a loomis forcelite rod (10-17lb) with 15lb braid? should do the job yeh?
wot pound leader do you run? 30lb would be enough?
cheers
sam
jay_burgess
Yeah mate that gear is
Yeah mate that gear is perfect. As far as leader goes, 60lb minimum... I prefer to use 80lb though. They have sharp gill rakers which are deadly on leaders. We used to run 40lb but we were loosing way more fish than we were landing so we went to 80lb.
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Jay Burgess
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SamC
leader
shit thats pretty heavy...but i spose you gotta be prepared!
do you reckon flurocarbon would make a difference? or jus jinkai or something similar?
cheers
sam
jay_burgess
I've been using mono and
I've been using mono and having no dramas but I guess it wouldn't hurt using fc.
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Jay Burgess
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tailor marc
Nice barra Jay!! I want to
Nice barra Jay!!
I want to catch one!!! ;)
jay_burgess
You'll be here at the right
You'll be here at the right time Marc!
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Jay Burgess
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tailor marc
I was hoping you would say
I was hoping you would say that!!!
Cant wait Jay :)