Amazing Catch !! : NQ Barra

Scotty · Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 7:34 pm Post subject: Amazing Catch !!

Break out the barra rods in Brisb :shock:

Caught from under the Bribie Bridge. Must have a very HIGH tolerance to cold water as the temp this morning was 4 deg, 1 deg low forecast for Redcliffe tomorrow morning.

Bet he was a happy :cheers:

Scotty

back-cast · Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 7:52 pm Post subject:

..................... hey scottyi'm having trouble getting the picture, i can't seem to drive the windows media centre is there any other way you can post the images i'm keen to have a look i'm in Redciffe now.......... :mrgreen:

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Scotty · Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 9:11 pm Post subject:

Hey Back cast,

try this link, the photo is in the local Northern Times, pine rivers edition. Glad your here to feel the cold as well.

Once you get to the link place the cursor to the top right corner and the page will fold over, right click and flick the page. Go to page 24 (12 flicks and the article is on Pg 24)

Hope this work cause I'M just about out of Tech skills.

http://paper.questnews.com.au/papers/the courier company.html

:uhh:

Scotty

back-cast · Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 10:27 pm Post subject:

................. thank's Scotty that is a good fish it would had to have been at least a 90cm model, it would be a surprise to catch in the passage, it would be good to catch them down here i wonder if it is a natural fish or an escapee from somewhere ??????????
.................. another few years and he could've been a breeder

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BarraBeast · Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 10:42 pm Post subject:

your kidding! I'm truly surprised. Maybe they are mutating into cold water species. :shock:

back-cast · Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 7:09 pm Post subject:

................ i saw the fishing report on the channel TEN news tonight that barra at Bribie and there was another smaller one caught at Raby Bay in the canals this week as well
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Scotty · Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 9:41 pm Post subject:

Whooooo Hoooo

Build up fishing at Bribie island :clap:

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Can only dream I suppose :banghead:

justin · Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 9:56 pm Post subject:

maybe they are trying to swim away from the global warming issue

temp · Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:54 pm Post subject:

I spoke to a guy about 5 years ago that swore black and blue he used to catch the odd Barra in a secret creek that he knew of in Pumicestone Passage, I used to think he was dreamin :shock:

.......maybe not :bonk:

dodgyone · Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 11:13 pm Post subject:

Have heard of a couple of guys that target them around Exmouth on the West Coast. Thats a fair way down. With the huger increase in barra being caught in the Pilbara area it makes sense that they would be migrating down the East Coast too. :cheers:

Get muddies south of Perth on occasion. Caught them myself. :wink:

Jay Burgess · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 7:58 pm Post subject:

dodgyone wrote:

Have heard of a couple of guys that target them around Exmouth on the West Coast. Thats a fair way down. With the huger increase in barra being caught in the Pilbara area it makes sense that they would be migrating down the East Coast too. :cheers:

Get muddies south of Perth on occasion. Caught them myself. :wink:

Barra have always been common in the Pilbara but numbers have been on the rise since netting was banned in Pilbara creeks. They are easily targeted here. Exmouth on the other hand is a different story, but I have heard of a few caught down that way.

Talking of fish caught where they're not really supposed to be, we had a, er.. big lizard sighted and photographed near point samson a few weeks back. Pretty uncommon here but I wouldn't be surprised if their numbers started to increase further south.

Ibbsy · Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 3:08 pm Post subject:

The photo of the barra in Grant's guide to fishes says it was caught in the upper reaches of the Noosa river the book I have is about 15 years old so this was caught along time ago. must be the odd one around down that way!!!

Matt Flynn · Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:58 pm Post subject: barra

I hooked one in the Ashburton River near Onslow, WA, and was told by locals that the eastern Exmouth Gulf bays have a few barra, but mostly salmon, jacks and cod.

On the East Coast barra are relatively common in the Mary River at Maryborough but south of that are much rarer. But I suppose it would be easy enough for a few to swim down the Great Sandy Strait and beyond.

It would be interesting to know more about average water temperatures down that way - I wonder if anyone has kept records of the water temp in Moreton Bay over the past 50 years? And if water temps are rising? Much of Moreton Bay could easily become barra habitat if it was warm enough - it's got mudflats, shallows, shelter, creeks, mangroves.

Jay Burgess · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 7:26 pm Post subject: Re: barra

Matt Flynn wrote:

I hooked one in the Ashburton River near Onslow, WA, and was told by locals that the eastern Exmouth Gulf bays have a few barra, but mostly salmon, jacks and cod.

On the East Coast barra are relatively common in the Mary River at Maryborough but south of that are much rarer. But I suppose it would be easy enough for a few to swim down the Great Sandy Strait and beyond.

It would be interesting to know more about average water temperatures down that way - I wonder if anyone has kept records of the water temp in Moreton Bay over the past 50 years? And if water temps are rising? Much of Moreton Bay could easily become barra habitat if it was warm enough - it's got mudflats, shallows, shelter, creeks, mangroves.

Are barra caught further south on the east or west coast, latitude wise?

2rods · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 11:22 pm Post subject:

This whole thing opens up one huge dilema :evil:

now when I go home (soryy back too) to SEQLD I will need to take my barra gear with me... mum and dad have a fishing shack in Maroom (near harvey bay) so I might be ale to get a few barra next trip :shock:

I was told by an old family friend (read 90 when I was 8-10) that a croc was caught in the old wooden locks in the logan river when he was a boy :shock:

so barra there might be more common than we think :shock:

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