Hey fellas just thought I'd post up the a few pics from last Mondays session, headed out to Twitch some placcys and jigs at a few marks I have in the 20's then as the weather got better and the ocean glassed off I decided to head out to the 30 - 40 m range to mark some new ground....

A small Sambo that smashed the placcy 2 m from the boat and bolted for the bottom 22m below... but never made it...

My mate Mak with the best Dhu for the trip 7 kg's on placcy in 40 m....

Fellow fishwrecked member Fishwhispers with a nice Morwong pulled from 35m...

Catch of the day a solid 4-5kg Coral Trout smashed my plastic and took a bit to get off the bottom...

Another Pic.....

The days bag....

And a 3 kg school Mackerel that took a placcy aimed at small pinkys and bream while I was fishing my local rock wall the following day...

Not a bad day all in all.

Cheers Fellas..

To start the bragging, I’ve spent most of my xmas break on the family riviera, drinking and relaxing in the sun at Thompsons bay, Rotto... But, between relaxing, drinking and bad weather, I did managed to get out of the water and onto my hobie kayak which i've set up for a bit of fishing.
 

Arriving at Rotto on xmas eve, the weather was unreal, the wind dropped to nothing, and the water glassed off… So, after dark, I headed out from Thompsons bay around to Parker Point, covering over 14km there and back. This trip turned out to be an awesome night, catching Dhuies, KGs, Pinkies, and some of the biggest Snook I’ve seen, most well over a meter long, and all on 7" gulps.... Ended up heading back a 2am though, keeping only the 75cm Pinky and and 50cm KG for xmas lunch and dinner...

After this 6 hour trip, my battery was completely drained, so over the next couple of trips, the sounder was off, and I was blind casting (XD) and relying on my GPS, which proved to be very unsuccessful, with only 1 small Dhuie caught...
These 2 trips really made me realize how much I rely on my fish finder, so before heading out again, a charge in the battery was in need.. luckily we had a battery booster on board, which was able to charge it up for one more trip.
 

After a week of poor weather, came our last day on the boat, and my last chance to head out offshore on the kayak again… The idea was to boat around to parker point for the day, but after setting up ready to go, this idea was cut short, as one of the engines could not start when turning the key. A quick insepction, and I soon found the cooling system had sprung a leak during our trip over, flooding the starter motor with saltwater, and causing some serious corrosion on the contacts and solenoid....
Nothing could stop me from fishing this day… so I managed to strip the starter motor off the engine, and by using bits and pieces around the boat, a can of CRC and a spring from a clothes peg, I rebuilt it McGuyver style into working condition :)
 

4 hours later, covered in grease, we were off to the crystal clear 'pool like’ waters of Parker point, where I set out on my last trip on the yak,  soon to become my most memorable fishing experience ever. Half way out, I realized I had forgotten my camera, but as the sea breeze was picking up, there was no time to waste… My target for the day was to catch a decent dhuie, so a little searching and I was over some good arches, though it seemed the fish did not want to play, each drop resulting in my plastic lure coming back annihilated by shit fish …
After 2 1/2 packs of gulps destroyed, I had almost given up for the day. But theres always time for that one last cast, so before heading back in, I decided to check out if there was any action under the birds diving further out.
A quick peddle over, and in no time, I was on top of large bait ball… then appeared the massive arches under them.
In no rush, I turned on my shark shield, picked up my Nitro Viper (which i had previously rigged with a 7” Cajun Chicken Jerkshad and a heavy duty jig head) and cast out into the wind, so as to drift back over the school.
Before I could wind in any slack line, the lure was smashed!!! my Viper loads up, and strangely, after setting the hook, I was able to wind back most of my line. A little confused as to what this dead weight on the end of my line could be, I glance over to find a huge shadow beneath me, then suddenly a massive flash of silver, as it takes a diving run towards open water… HOLY !$&%^!$ S#!+ this thing was fast… Peeling nearly the whole spool of my 150ft 15lb braid from my Sol 3000 in seconds... 
I quickly realized I need to keep up, so by pedaling and winding like crazy, I was able to get back on top of the fish, still unable to turn its head. From then, all I could do was hold on and attempt to tire this monste  It was intense, the fish stayed deep and the weight and headshakes were almost pulling the rod from my grips…
The next run was just as powerful as the first, as the fish took off towards the sanctuary zone into shallow reefy waters...
I realized i had no chance in these shallow reefs, so locking down my drag was my only option. This followed a good 45 mins of been towed, and taken for a ride, until it finally tired. As I slowly worked the fish up to the surface, both of us completly buggered, it brought back memories of a couple of lost chances with these fish... This was actually my 3rd YTK i've hooked in perths waters (last 2 from a boat), both lost at the net, so the pressure was on. After carefully gaffing, and lifting over my knees, then sliding the monster head first into the front hatch, I think I was too exhausted for the manditory 'yeehhaa!' of victory. Just a biig deep breath, before I headed back towards the boat, where my old man had already spotted me and had the camera ready.
What made it great, were the looks of shock and disbelief from everyone around, as I lifted this massive yellow tail from the front hatch of my kayak for a few snaps. Sweet victory! I finally landed one :)
Back on the boat, while enjoying a very very cold beer, I bled the fish and put on ice… measuring in at 1.3m long, and an estimated ~25kg.

Anyways, I feel very bad for keeping this fish, but as it is the 3rd I’ve hooked, and my 1st landed, I really wanted a photo..
Don’t worry, it will not go to waste… My family nearly exclusively eat fish, so it won’t last long

dived north rotto yesterday ended up with 8 crays one is 1.2kg made a good bbq

 hit the ramp early and beat the traffic ,and had a good day with the northerly winds !

Well hello one and all!

I am sure you have all forgotten me by now, or at least tried too!  Been busy this end which is why i have failed to pos over recent months, also the firewall at work now stops me from actually posting on the site, i can only view.  So I have been looking but was unable to post.  I will attempt to be better this year I promise!  Just stuck a few photos of fish I have caught recently hope you dont mind but no sea fish as I have not had the cash to get out on the boat this year, and when I did the charter skipper crashed into a reef and we had to be rescued by the life boat...in the bloody harbour, very embarrasing and not much fun!

Going to try this new, to me anyway, uploading process it looks good.

A new PB barbel caught from the river Wye in wales near a place called Ross-on-Wye, it went 10.4lb and was caught on trout pellet and trout pellet paste.  I also caught another 4 that day all between 7 and 9lb.

This was one of the bigger carp I caught in Spain on the river ebro.  This one weighed 31lb and it was caught on boilies, along with all the other carp we caught.

Also in Spain this one weighed 30lb exactly

and this one weighed 23.4lb, caught from a boat.

This one was 28.8lb also in spain.  And below is a Spanish crayfish!

Finally a 21.15lb mirror carp caught from my local lake, on sweetcorn

Take car one and all.  I will be trying to get on a few boat trips in the next few months so will try and keep you posted.  Weathers really cold here at the moment and most lakes and drains are frozen and hjave been for about 5 weeks now, so its a bit tough at the moment.  Take care and tight lines rog

ps soz about the cricket!!! xxxx

big thanks to Brian, (my boss and owner of Compleat Angler Nedlands) and Darren for a spectacular day out on the water.

Brian invited me out for a days fishing for Dhuies and various demersial species up at Mindarie.

was a awesome day, with 4 dhuies, a baldie, two breaksea's and various other bottom dwelling fish landed

brian put me onto my first ever dhuie and a cracker at that. it went about 9 kilo!!

brian unfortunetally lost a dhuie of collosal proportions which was estimated to weigh atleast 20+ kilo!!!

we kept a 6 kilo and 11 kilo dhuie and I got to release my first dhuie capture!! awesome 

cheers ,

Tom

 hey guys just after some information on the two different coloured baldies in the perth area ,the white/grey and the darker brown orangey baldy,which are female ,which are males ,ive bein cleaning up on baldies this week ,are they breeding this time of the year!as they are every where on the flat coral,also noticed the orange/brown ones dont fight as hard,just  after some opinions and other peoples thoughts!

Happy New Year!  Getting our priorities right, we left the pub at 11 last night so we could be up at 4:30am to head down to Groote Eylandt's South Point for a final fish before Wade and I pack up our belongings and head back to live in WA.  Although we've been living in fishing heaven and I've caught plenty of coral trout, golden snapper, saddletail, tuna, queenies, etc etc, I had one aim of the day - to catch a Mack.  Up here they are considered a pest and people really don't like catching them but for some reason I haven't been able to catch one.  Today was the day!

We steamed down to South Point at 35-40 knots and made it in around an hour.  The sun was just rising as our mate Jez put out the billfish teasers and gear.  Wouldn't you know it, 5 minutes later we see a sailfish fin in the water 100m ahead of us! You bewdy we thought, how easy is this!  We chucked out a garfish to no avail.  Unfortunately the Saily was just cruising around and not too hungry so we didn't get a strike. 

As the adrenalin backed off we found some birds working.  Getting closer we ruled out Tuna working the bait schools.  First pass and there were a few Sharks working the schools(!!!) so we moved away quickly to protect our gear.  We found another school and 'bang', both rods (one with hooks and one without) started peeling.  At the same time the garfish also went out the back so it was game on!  We were mighty disappointed when we pulled up a couple of Queenies.  We concluded the Queenies were working all the schools in the area so decided to move on.

Another 7 miles away is Mack Mountain, where a 27 foot lump rises from 70 foot.  We swapped lures to deep divers and on the first pass I hooked up a Mack!  It was a small Mack, but I still caught one and was over the moon.  I have now achieved my goal!  We tried for another one (bigger!) but saw some weather coming in....

Ahhh, the monsoon! Out of nowhere storm clouds formed all around us and after dodging them for an hour or so we bit the bullet and decided to head back to port.  It was 30 naultical miles of moderate to heavy rain but luckily it wasn't too windy and we made it back in a couple of hours (travelling at between 12-20knots)!  I haven't actually ever been cold living in the tropics but today was a bit chilly!  It was great back at the boat ramp putting my feet in the 30C water and warming up!

(this screen shot taken after we got home - the worst had passed through by then!)

So farewell Groote Eylandt, we have had a fantastic time!

Hi all Fishwreckers,

Wish you all a very safe and prosperus New Year to all, stay safe and hope all your New Year resolutions come true.

Regards

Roberta and old fart

Went fishing yesterday on my first boat trip with a friend ray, at first we caught a few wrass then ray was hooked and the fish seemed huge, he finnally got it up and it was a 44cm baldchin groper, after we had moved spots i hooked a fish it felt pretty big i got it up and it was a 34cm breaksea cod and then we moved towards a island and we went to a spot and we got a few herring and then that was the day for us :D (best day i caught my biggest fish ever)

well, just got back several hours ago from yet again a great experience out with whitey. left home with a mate at around 2am to head up to the marina as the boat was scheduled to leave at 4:30, our main target were demersals with my mate (ben) using mostly bait and me using jigs only. got there in time, there were 8 people in total including whitey and deckie, and we were off to our first spot. as soon as we arrived at the spot i realised everyone but me and whitey were using bait, didnt bother me...first drop me and ben both get a double hookup, after few minutes of toying with the fish, 2 small dhuis came up...perfect way to start off the day.

after the two dhuies, it quitened down a tad, managed a few small sambos but nothing to great so we decided to move on to the next stop. as soon as we arrive we notice there is a school of fish down there, so everyone drops the bait while i jig my way up...we were hoping for a school of dhuis or snapper but they turned out to be sambos, and lots of them, almost everyone on the boat managed a few, few big ones but most were still quite small.

eventually we got sick of the sambos so we drifted couple hundred meters away, second drop both me and ben once again get a solid double hookup, we werent quite sure what they were at the start, we were hoping for anything besides sambos, eventually bens comes in and it turns out to be a nice dhui that went 72cm

5 or so minutes later mine also decided to show up, got greeted by a very nice 77cm pinkie

after these two fish everyone else started hooking up to dhuis, we got the boat limit in no time with one of them being a very nice size which was taken on bait. after all the dhuis it quitened down again with a few sambos around, we decided to try shallower water but we had no success their either so we decided to head back at around 11am...everyone was pretty tired by then anyway as everyone got a good number of fish. all in all it was a great day, cant wait to head back out with him, cant reccommend anyone else besides him..great bloke .

Gudday fellow fishers,

This is my first post, so please excuse any mistakes. Should be a good year for crabbing in the Peel and Harvey Estuaries this year due to the hotter than normal start to summer. The cooked crabs I got only took 2 hours and the old man took home six uncooked ones for Christmas and the crab with the gauge on it I got along with another 19 which was four days later, only took a couple of hours as well, which was also just before Christmas, but it would be copping a hiding at the moment. But the new bag limits that where brought in, I believe will help the industry.

No fillets, but some nice crays .......

Hey fellas it's been a while since my last post, I've been flat out at work so I decided I'd put up this post while I had the chance, these photos are from the last 2 trips out from my home town of Dongara I've been takin a few mates out recently to try put them onto some good fish.

We have had some great weather lately and these are the results......

On the way out to one off my favourite lumps after the ban ended..... Glass Off...

The boys in the other boat fellow fishwrecked member - Fishwhispers....

My mate Steve with a little Dhu on placcy..

A pup Dhu jigged up on a Bass Hard Vibe... my first time trying these lures for Dhu's worked a treat.

Steve with a 3kg Dhu on his Bream gear..... Happy days...

Little pink on the Nuc Chick... Check out those conditions...

The Missus with a healthy Pink caught on placcy...

6 kg Dhu caught on Placcy....

Another Dhu falls victim to the 4 inch paddle tail...

A Baldy on the lime tiger...Probably the hardest fish to catch on placcys.

My mate Mak with a little school Mackerel we picked up casting metal slices at bait balls...

In total over the 2 trips we caught and released 30 plus Dhu's, 10 or so Pinkys, 4 School Macks, a few Baldys and Black Bums.

Cheers guys...

Hi all

Here's my first ever jewie, caught today weighing in at 9.1kg!!!

Couldn't find any takers from Team Gates or a couple of fishing buddies so I went by myself....wasn't going to miss a chance to take the new boat for a fish while the weather gods are looking favourably down upon us at present. 

Headed out from the Dawesville ramp at 8am (assisted in the launch by 'she who must be obeyed') and sort of went due west and came upon some small lumps in 40m of water, with the odd red arch on the screen so I marked it and had a drift around. The drift was quite slow and the sea anchor worked a treat...just another thing I'm getting used to.

Had a couple of drifts over the mark and then all of a sudden all hell broke loose!! Not only did he take the bait, he almost caught me off guard and pulled me over. There was a fair bit of 'him taking line' followed by 'me taking it back' but I took my time and went steady, before he finally surfaced. What a wonderful sight it was, too.

I was breaking in my new Penn Slammer 601GBM fitted with a Latitude XS60 loaded with 30lb braid (thanks ebay!!)...maybe not the most fashionable outfit but that's ok.

Finished the day with a 37cm blackass and a couple of nice sized sandies.

Best of luck to everyone else out there wetting a line.

regards
rusty...

PS. Posted this in Image Galleries by mistake 

  G,day all posting a couple of photos of the nice mullaway i got saturday night.Spent the night down singleton beach with my cousin caught plenty of rays, got bitten off by a shark,the cousin dropped a mullaway and plenty of undersized taior still hitting baits at 4 in the morning. 

 Had and cork day a few days back ,with a total of 8 dewys landed ,only kept two for the table ! it was the young blokes first ever fishing trip!

 hey guys i just have to brag 

i launched the boat yesterday at about 11 o'clock and motered to the back of the five in hope of a pinky or a sambo, i found some cray pots in 20m and started to drift thru them first drop my mate hooked up and landed a little 7kg sambo and i droped a nice fish about half way up probly a sambo after a re-bait i was back down and hooked up again but got this fish off the bottom pretty quick and saw a bit of colour but i couldnt id the fish then it woke up and lunged for the bottom i worked it back to the surface and saw this fish had a deep body so my first call was snapper but then i as it broke the surface i seen it was a dhuie with no net on board we grabed it by the mouth and heaved it ova the side i was stoked my first dhuie and finally broke in my boat after that i started to fick plastics for the rest of the day for only rat sambos and small snapper but the weather was magic so i didnt mind

cheers ethan

Had the pleasure of accompanying Ryan Thipthorp on one of his Cockburn Sound Pink Snapper tagging evenings a little while ago, in between his hectic filming schedule. In fact, I was the first to assist him for the tagging program for this year. I met Ryan at the ramp and quickly loaded up his boat - one rod, small tackle bag and a small compact camera - too easy.

With the current closure we were expecting the Sound to be very quiet, which it was and good to see boat anglers complying. The only other boating activity we saw at the 5pm launch time, was a couple of Fisheries Officers with their books out and a boat crew with a very dejected look on their face , so yes guys be careful as they are out in force which is good.

Being the first time out, the order of the evening was to find fish; not just a few fish, but the big schools so that we could maximize the tagging night. We found a few, but they looked to be massed up ready to spawn. Hence, we kept looking to find the right concentration. Eventually the right amount of red on Ryans Furuno sounder was found. The anchor set and the first tester baits put out.

Ryan continued to setup the tagging gear - measure board, canulater, tag's, applicators, paper work, wet towel for covering the snappers eyes and within minutes the first outfit loaded up. A big strong run with head shakes indicated a sizable fish. 'Good fish... this one' I managed to get out whilst adjusting the drag slightly. A few minutes later, a nice pinkie 850mm long slips into the net....hmm nice start. With the tagging stuff done, back into the water for the big boy and he bolts off strongly.

We get a couple more on baits, so time for the McArthy's Softplastics. I slip a fresh 5" Jerk Minnow in Chartuesse/Pearl http://mcarthybaits.com.au/jerk-minnow# onto a half ounce jighead. Second cast, big hit, I'm on, and then drop, damn! Twitch, twitch, bang on again..woohoo and this one feels bigger. A few minutes of gaining and loosing line and finally, my first pinkie from Cockburn Sound and also my first pinkie on an SP comes into view. It is a stonker of a pinkie and with some good weight to it. Ryan gently nets her and by the time she is resting on the deck I'm ready for a quick lift and photo. With the pic taken, onto the measurer and she comes out to 950mm to the fork...Hmm thats about 1050mm overall and easliy over 10kg of healthy female. I place her gently over the side with Fisheries Research all done & tags in with a strong grip on her tail...whack, flicking water over me, she powers off strongly...ohh what a good feeling that was!

I caught 2 more on the McArthy with both fish around the 900mm to fork mark...hmm this was going to be a good night I thought. Getting ready for another cast out to the school about 30m away, there was a bit of commotion on the water surface. Large splashes, but just out of sight in the darkness. Shark or dolphins had just hit the school! Damn.....it went all quiet. Time to head home.

Many thanks to Ryan for allowing me to contribute to a very good cause. Ryan and one other person have Fisheries Exemptions (no fish kept) to do Fisheries Research in the Sound which is critical for the survival of these very unique spawning fish that spawn for half of the coastline so we need to protect them. I'm posting this up to remind people that whilst the fishing ban maybe lifted soon the "Cockburn Sound Snapper Ban" is still in place until end of January. It was a very educational evening and one that I hope to help with again in the future, thanks Ryan.

Cheers Pete

Started at about 5 in the arvo at RFBYC jetty hoping to hook up some bream with my new bought baby vibe. first cast and got a small tailor. decided to stay and try for mulloway, but there wasn't anymore actions after that small tailor. no squid, no tailor. therefore, no bait for mulloway. so met up with a friend at the narrows. it was rather quiet but started to get some small tailors (in the 20+cm range). and then i got one that took some line. landed it and measured up. it was a 40cm tailor! my PB.

then after that the fish went pretty thin. i lost all my metals cos my line snapped. think i need to get some new braids already. So i put on my Rapala minnow. first cast and i caught my first bream on a lure, and also my first bream from the narrows. I wasn't expecting that at all. the bream went 33cm, 3cm shy of my PB

my friend caught a 32cm tailor towards the end of out session. we also brought up a big blue manna using both our rods like a chopstick. it was just sitting near the shore on the bottom and my friend wanted to get that but didn't have a scoop. no picture of the crab though.

one weird thing happened when i first got to the narrows though. this guy beside me caught a small eagle ray on his twisty!

do these things get??

One in the middle had a 40cm hood. Kept stripping line off all the way to the boat :D

decided against hittin the same lumps as yesterday, and went a few extra miles south to some lumps we havent been to in at least 2 years.

good to see the numbers still around, and we had no dramas gettin our bag on half a tank each, including these 2 bad boys! missed a couple that were even bigger too, but will leave them and that lump alone for a while. plenty of them out there ATM. heaps of berried too.

sorry, mobile phone photo = shit quality.

not a bad jumbo on the first tank today for me mate matty. he had all but his ankles and fins poking out of this big boys cave.

ended up getting our bag of 12 with 200 bar still left in our 2nd tanks, and plenty still on the ledges!! hit that spot again tommorrow.

FYI, for size comparison, all crays in that photo are legal

Haven't been down the club in over a week, went down for fish and chips today (2.12.10).  The new entrance is on the road (turn right before Blue Shed) heading to the groyne, you will see it on the left hand side driving towards the rock groyne.  The pad key works.  But for $50 (with returnable pad key it will cost $40) you can have the mobile key and don't have to get out the car.  Enjoy, felt funny exiting out of the gate, as it opens automatically and exiting out of another gate since 1982 hahah.

Hi guys here is a nice Squid I nailed last weekend on the new Shimano Egixile Squid Jigs, great fun.

800mm Bara Caught up at Broome couple weeks back in Dampier creek. I also pulled a 500mm one on the same day and couple ohter boats pulled some.

My fisho partner and I had a good day at Rotto West end at the end of the salmon season this year. YT Kings were in plague proportions and great fun on light spin gear. There was still a few salmon around, nice fat 6kg buggers were also good fun. Gav took this Baldie for dinner, it came in at 5.5kg by memory and nearly dropped the jaw off the fisheries officer that met us at the ramp!

Yes this report is half a year old but it's good to know the grounds off Perth aren't as devestated as some will believe. We caught YT Kings, Dhuie's, Black butts, Salmon & Skippy of the more desired species that day, most taken on lures hard & soft.

Can't wait for the next spell of good wind!

Well its our first day off on our four day break, so its fishing time!

Very  quickly launched the boat at 0700, when we saw a 3m croc sink under the water 20m out from the boat ramp. Headed out under the shiploading wharf where we were greeted by another bigger croc, gliding thru the water.

Our destination was the Walker River 40 miles away from Groote Eylandt over on the main land. Pushing into the current and a slight north easter, we first stopped at a rock bar, where some big barra had been taken recently. Armed with my new bait caster, we began peppering out lures around the front of the rock bar. On my 3rd cast i was on, quick run and then the mighty jump of the barra got me all excited. It was a good size around the 80 mark, so i had to get this bloody fish in. It headed back for the rocks, i managed to turn him...but then the line went slack, i had lost him. With some encouragement from my mate, telling me "every ten you hook, you might land 2" i was starting to feel a little better. But i couldnt help but wonder, if i had just blown my chance for this trip. After another hour we had only landed a few small ones in the 60s, so it was time to get out of there.

We headed straight for the walker river then, and hoping we could find some more action.

 First stop was a run off about 3 mile up the river. We anchored up and began tossing lures. My mate landed a couple of fish in the high 60s, but after 30 mins the water went quiet. But before we took off, we had to retreive a couple of lures off some mangrove roots, that Wade had accidently left there. We then heade further up the river. There was buffalo everywhere, and heaps of wildlife. We made it up to the rock bar, where once again, we anchored and started fishing. It was very dead there, with no teltale barra "boofs" in the water. The sun and humidity by this time where getting quite extreme, so it was time for a beer and some trawling. We headed back to the mouth of the river, and began to trawl our lures along the side of the sand bar as it turns into mangroves. It wasnt long until i had a hit, and landed my first fish at 70cm. The place had began to fire, and in the next hour be hooked about 10 fish, with my biggest coming in at 72cm.

The sun was starting to fall so it was time to anchor up for the night. We enjoyed an evening of beer, chops and Dire straits on the boom box. While in the background the flash of storms, gave us something to admire. We hooked up our 12 volt fans to keep us a little cooler, and hit the swags for a great nights sleep, bobbing around in the ocean.

We awoke to calm conditions and as the sun was rising we began to get the lures out the back of the boat once again. Since my pink and yellow halco scorpion, did the damage yesterday, i decided to dust him off once more.

We hooked 4 good fish in three passes, but all still around the 70 cm mark. We then decided to start heading back home, to beat the wind, as if the nor easter kicks in, she gets very messy in these parts. We stopped at one of my mates prize goldie spots on the way home at the top of Bikerton Island. Fishing in only 5m of water, hooking up to 70 cm goldies, sure is fun.

We then headed further south, and was slowly making our way home, while taking in some of the veiws of the sandy islands. This one Woody Island caught my eye i think i could just live there for a while.

Home by 10 am as the wind just started to pick up. I had a great first time fishing for Barra, now i know why people get hooked!

Well folks, making the trek from Groote, over to the Walker River on the mainland tommorow. Hoping to get into my first Barra action, has anyone on here by any chance fished the Walker before??