Hopewell barra : Landbased Fishing

shadymad · Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:03 pm Post subject: Hopewell barra

Hey all went out for a look around friday night at some culverts and my young fella tagged along.
Decided to go down to tortilla and work our way back.Found the adelaide river at 1.2m over the crossing
and the drain b4 there pumpin but not high enough yet.The other main culvert there was just under the road
and looked good but no bait around,had a flick here for a bit for no luck,no boofing and only seen a small croc
sittin there watchin us.Left there and pulled into manton for a look to find it packed out.Stopped for a look
but it was a bit low and no one had caught anything that i was told.So we went around to the bridge and seen
2 decent size bara cruisin around,had a flick here but no hook ups.Did notice a fairly good flow comin down from
the wall so must be just comin over.Went to a couple of culverts around berry springs area and found hopewell
rd culvert was the pick of the lot.Stayed here for a bit as we were gettin some small hits from rats then finally
in the darkness i hear the young fella scream YEP YEP IM ON,all i could do is laugh as i could here the line bein
stripped from the reel,culvert fish r good at usin the current.Heard it jump a couple of times then in it came
bein a clean 60cm bazza,got a couple of pics n chucked him back.Boy was very happy

Had to leave soon after
that as it started to p..s down and the water got dirty.Decide to call in to girraween culvert as it was up,managed
a rat bazza here and seen a few swimmin around so ther on the move there.Decided to call it a night and headed home.

muzza2284 · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:46 am Post subject: Re: Hopewell barra

Good effort, Fished the Hopewell Culvert last year when it first filled up. Didnt land anything but i did see a few Barra come up under the soft plastice. Just watching it waiting. but couldnt entice the strike. still its abit of fun.

ken_dog · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 11:57 am Post subject: Re: Hopewell barra

Hes clean alright, nice n chrome. never seen much come out of hopewell myself...

P.S I'm not sure if we are allowed to mention "G_________ C______" mate, just a heads up. :roll:

Hayzie · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 6:17 pm Post subject: Re: Hopewell barra

He s very Silver, good info on the culverts

troamaru · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 6:37 pm Post subject: Re: Hopewell barra

ken_dog wrote:

Hes clean alright, nice n chrome. never seen much come out of hopewell myself...

P.S I'm not sure if we are allowed to mention "G_________ C______" mate, just a heads up. :roll:

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uniball · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 6:45 pm Post subject: Re: Hopewell barra

I think Ken is talking about that other magical fishing spot that no-one knows about.

(i.e. it starts with G and ends with irraween Culvert)

shadymad · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 7:54 pm Post subject: Re: Hopewell barra

Haha my 2 boys live 5 minutes from the gc and they have been fishin it most of the school holidays
so i knew we were always going to stop there for a look on the way back.Boy said its best early hours
of the morn as there is less traffic.They have it sussed gettin regular fish from there.

ken_dog · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:49 pm Post subject: Re: Hopewell barra

Yea, I'm 5 mins from there also SM, good on the young fellas sussing it out, as it does get a fair bit of pressure.

shadymad · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 11:15 pm Post subject: Re: Hopewell barra

Yeah that it does,have u tried the next crossing down stream on the dirt road.Is a bit deeper.

ken_dog · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 9:49 am Post subject: Re: Hopewell barra

yeah mate(three ropes, i call it), grew up riding bikes and fishing through that area, right through to gunn point beach!

Mud · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 9:06 pm Post subject: Re: Hopewell barra

Top report and well done the young lad pulling a keeper

shadymad · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 8:48 pm Post subject: Re: Hopewell barra

Thanks for the feedback everyone,now i just got to get me a fish funny how every time u take
the kids they hook the only fish in the whole creek. :cheers:

seano · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 9:11 pm Post subject: Re: Hopewell barra

get over it ken_dog- getting a bit old mate.

Mr RiverBabe · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 9:27 pm Post subject: Re: Hopewell barra

Have to agree with Seano on that. Thought we all moved past the secret spot cr.p last year.

Timmo · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 12:04 am Post subject: Re: Hopewell barra

nice fish,love the culvert stuff with the kids......

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