Hey guys,

I´m from germany (sry for the mistakes in the following ) and i´ll go to australia for 8 months (work &travel) on nov the 7th.
My Journey will start in Sydney, where i´m going to stay for about 6-8 weeks. There i´m going to buy a campervan and doing all the organisation stuff which is necessery.

The first months i will travel probably the south, then the east and in march or in the beginning of april i would like to discover the north.
I´m fishing since i´m a child, here in germany you dont have a trickle of the fish species you have in australia, above all not much predators..i use to catch pikes, zander (kind of walleye), perches ans sometimes Powertail, thats it.
When i decided to do work and travel in down under it was clear to me that i have to got fishing and cant fly back home without having hooked a barra. The problem is, that you always have a low budget as a backpacker, so i think i wont be able to afford any fishing tours or to buy expensive tackle or rent a boat equipped with echo sounders etc. The good thing is I will have a car so i´m quite independet and mobile and can get almost everywhere. UnfortuantelyThats not a real fishing trip (my girlfriends with me^^) so i will leave my rods and tackle in germany. The idea was to buy a cheap rod (or 2)and reel, just a combo which does its function. Of course here i use to fish with stuff i like but i cant take it with me.

I would like to know, how is the chance to catch barras without knowing the waters and the spots and without having a guide. does the barramundi exist in every river which flows into the sea or in any lakes near the nothern coast? The fish do not have to be big and i will release it anyway so it can also be smaller than 55cm . i just wanted to experience the fight of this fish.
Of course if you can tell me where i can catch a big one it would be great but catching a smallone would make me happyn enough.
Can you tell me several Cities/places/Rivers/lakes where its possible to catch something on his own hand. or maybe you know some low priced guiding tours which i would be able to pay.

I´ve seen a lot of movies about barra fishing. they caught them as well with lures as with live oder dead baits. which method you would recommend to me? Here i´m also fishing with both methods, but particularly the last years it has become harder and harder to catch predator fish on spinning lures because the fish became to careful. too many anglers on a lake/river..and most of them take everything with them they catch. that sucks. catch and release is forbidden..stupid law.. Is there a similiair situation in australia(that the barras became suspecious)?

I would also like to know which fish besides barras i can catch as a "aussie-rookie". (not only in the north and west)

Thank you very much in advance for your answers

Rick

Edi..Welcome..Get hold of a copy of North Australia Fish Finder magazine and read..read..read by the time you reach darwin you'll probably have a swag of fish to your credit.

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march/april in Darwin and landbased....google shady camp barrage

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I´ll do my best. what means "have a swag of fish to your credit", dont really get this

have a swag of fish to your credit means "A poop load of fish mate"