mystery beach billabong runoff

bandit · Post by **bandit** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 11:21 am

can anyone tell me or wants to have a guess where this place in the NT is?

during the dry is landlocked but come wetseason big rains open it to the sea and becomes a barra mecca. there have been some big barra caught. good colour change spews into the sea. i think it actually is a breeding ground!?!

slapper1 · Post by **slapper1** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 12:18 pm

in my back yard

punter · Post by **punter** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 12:42 pm

Not the back of Dundee near Finniss Station???

Badcock · Post by **Badcock** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 3:34 pm

Its not down old bynoe track near keswick or raft point is it just a stab in the dark

Ray Broughton · Post by **Ray Broughton** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 3:56 pm

Looks very much like Bathurst Island vegetation.. no idea where tho, theres is lagoon on the south shore. Maybe one of them?

tatie · Post by **tatie** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 4:23 pm

looks suspiciously like a spot i know out near saltwater arm ...

do you know where it is CB?

meter_seeker · Post by **meter_seeker** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 4:24 pm

Might that be bathurst island the place where we caught all those big barra..nah wait i think that was a dream.

BarraBase · Post by **BarraBase** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 6:56 pm

monger-to don't know the correct spelling but 11.47.23.22 s 130.12.56.03 e south side of bathurst island
good barra ,fished it lots in the old days

bandit · Post by **bandit** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 8:34 pm

yeh that would be right. dunno wat the name is off top of my head, would have to consult my old map i got from the school.
there is a few lagoons there on the island. some that flow into the sea at times. some holding barra. some not.
last time i was there would have been 06. pretty shallow in places lots of weed. got some decent barra there on poppers. pretty dark fish.

an to anyone thinking of heading over there. you cant. not legally anyway.