Well after many years I finally managed to crack the magical meter mark with a 102cm model landbased on the Fitzroy River in WA. Fish was one of two meteries caught that night with a 99cm caught as well. Excuse the photos - they were taken using a mobile which wasnt quite up to the task given the humidity ...
We headed up after work on what was to be my last mission for a while as the missus is due to have twins any day now. Arrived to see the river was still flowing but everything looked pretty good. Collected some bait and set up on a spot weve had previous success and within a few minutes I was on. Barely had time to strike before a good 80+ took to the air but it soon had me bricked around a rockbar. Ended up dropping that one and after hooking a few more snags we moved up the bank about 100m to reset.
Baits back in and about 15 minutes later my mates on - wasnt exactly the best fight so we were calling it for a sawfish. It headed pretty much straight in and as it got close we realised it was a good sized barra Got it up on the bank and on the brag mat and it went 101cm. It was his first metery and he was stoked. He'd hooked it in the tongue so we figured thats why it didnt put up much of a fight.
After a few high fives we were back into it. It was at about this stage that he started letting me know that I was the only one of our crew that hadnt landed a metery and generally questioning my fishing ability! He ended up getting a 95 and a 99 in pretty quick succession (which didnt help the ribbing I was getting) when I finally got on the board with an 89.
Few more fish between 60 and 90 were caught and a few more
but it seemed to be slowing down and we were considering calling it a night when a screaming run on my line put that idea to rest. Fish was putting up a good fight and took plenty of line - launched clean out of the water four times, even doing a couple of backflips. Mate was calling it for an 80 but I knew that it was my metery. After a tense 10 minutes managed to guide it in and get it on the bank. 102cms - stoked!!! After about a dozen 98cm fish i finally had my meter fish on the board. 
Ended up getting a couple more and then a half dozen in the morning but the big girls had moved out. Packed up and home by lunchtime. Stoked that I managed to get that metery on my last trip for a while and that me and my mate both landed our first meteries on the same night!
Cheers Wattsy
