The year of big water part 2 : NT Barra

cuddlescooper · Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 2:32 am Post subject: The year of big water part 2

Some really good meals were enjoyed with the bounty of big buck crabs getting around.

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the harbor tossed up some random sites including some blubber lip bream on lures and reasonable sized QLD groper as well as the usual bazzes,

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Sindy and I had a holiday to QLD to see her father and stopped in at the "Dam of a thousand casts". The name is right for it and despite 3000 casts the only barra sighted was this one on the bank.

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I then got the big river bug back again and headed back to my favourite systems. Again the Daly didnt fail me and despite the night time temperature getting down as low as 11 degrees I stumbled on another cracking night session providing 30 odd fish with the best going 94cm.

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Soon enough and the build up began but unfortunatly my work took over and it just so happened that all the good tides were taken over by this annoyance. we still went fishing on the not so good tides and learnt a lot of new spots and tricks a long the way. Goes to show that the fish are always somewhere and will always bite at one time or another. heres a few shots from 4 different trips a long the coast.

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Some boo boos along the way. Some mine, some by others[attachment=8]Milsys jack knife.JPG

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Finnis mouth. Someones not happy.JPG

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Plenty of wild life played a part as well in making for a interesting year. some of it alive some of it not so!

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All in all a great year and a lot learnt to hopefully make the next one even better. best of luck to you all

Wes · Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 4:12 am Post subject: Re: The year of big water part 2

Sweet post there cuddlescooper, looks like a very nice year......... cheers to you

seano · Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 5:18 am Post subject: Re: The year of big water part 2

Looks like you had a good year mate!

Pecheur · Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 7:15 am Post subject: Re: The year of big water part 2

Hi there,

I know of a few ears that were not as good as this one seems to have been...

Have a good day,
Pecheur

theodosius · Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 8:51 am Post subject: Re: The year of big water part 2

Top year!

nomad · Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 9:04 am Post subject: Re: The year of big water part 2

Great post. Nice fish there

hobbsy · Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 10:40 am Post subject: Re: The year of big water part 2

good pics, well done. I need to get off my bum & add some reports

Ben Jam · Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 12:50 pm Post subject: Re: The year of big water part 2

Top year

Timmo · Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 12:54 pm Post subject: Re: The year of big water part 2

awsome post and great pics......fish a plenty.

Deigs · Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 4:39 pm Post subject: Re: The year of big water part 2

it was indeed a good year for fishing nice pics

Moonman · Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 1:43 pm Post subject: Re: The year of big water part 2

Nice couple of posts mate... Hopefully this coming year will be as good if not better! If only we didn't have to work for a living...

Cheers!

Biff · Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 7:15 pm Post subject: Re: The year of big water part 2

This year can only be better more Mayhem,Breakdowns,And way more FISH :applause:

Nice one.

maxpower · Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 11:05 pm Post subject: Re: The year of big water part 2

Some cracker fish there cuddles and photos. I didnt know you fish with Millsy. I was wondering who taught him to use lures! That photo cracked me up. I havent seen him for a while hope he didnt damage anything.

cuddlescooper · Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 11:22 pm Post subject: Re: The year of big water part 2

maxpower wrote:

Some cracker fish there cuddles and photos. I didnt know you fish with Millsy. I was wondering who taught him to use lures! That photo cracked me up. I havent seen him for a while hope he didnt damage anything.

Steele and Millsy worked together so I got introduced through that progression.

That was only the second trip I have done with him. The first was a bottom bashing effort off Dundee.

Millsy fishes a bit with Steele and I think he has has shown him a thing or two about lures and stuff. I beleive Millsy tort Steele a thing or two about live baiting Shoal bay.

As for damage I can say that he is the luckiest bastard I know. He knifed it bad but got saved by the tyre on the rack at the rear. The winch post got cushioned by the spare tyre and kept the draw bar from colliding with the bumber bar. If you look close you can see it in this photo. the funniest part was Steel said two minutes earlier that if he doesnt slow down he was going to lose it. :lol:

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