My 1.22 M Barra

deano4598 · Post by **deano4598** » Sat May 22, 2010 7:40 pm

Hi All, I caught this fish quite some time ago and just found this forum. The time was 24 April 1999 and the place was the East Alligator River about 2-3 KM downstream from Cahill's Crossing. The fish was the only "keeper" caught on the day and was caught late in the day. The lure was named "a floating turd" by my mate in the picture, it was a Cairns lure brown and silver with a metal bib. The Barra took 25 minutes to get to the net and a further 20 minutes to revive and release. I do hope she still lives.

Dick · Post by **Dick** » Sat May 22, 2010 10:11 pm

Nice fish Dave, trying to place a 'dog turd' lure in my memory banks

Mud · Post by **Mud** » Sat May 22, 2010 10:20 pm

top work Davey!!!! Spanker of a fish! thanks for putting up the pic...a genuine horse!!

Post by **Matt Flynn** » Sat May 22, 2010 10:56 pm

Nice fish, good to see some posts from back in time

Never heard anyone say much about brown lures, green sure is popular tho for NT barraz.

I had a big Nilsie Invincible that was turd brown and yellow, I never used it, nor do I know what happened to it

Dick · Post by **Dick** » Sun May 23, 2010 9:05 am

Matt Flynn wrote:
I had a big Nilsie Invincible that was turd brown and yellow, I never used it, nor do I know what happened to it

Garbage lure Matt, had one for 18 years never did any good on it. First couple of casts back in late 1990 landed my first barra on one whilst fishing for powertails, should have known better and chucked away it then. Ten years later pulled it out again and once again no pt would go anywhere near the thing. This lump of a barra grabbed though. Wasted about half an hour with it before we could get back to real fishing.

Thankfully I left it alone until Feb 09 when I throw it into a pack of hungry barra trying to find something they'd leave alone and let a pt take. You guessed it, no such luck. Luckily some big shiela took it for a ride over the falls and that was the end of bad rubbish!!

max · Post by **max** » Sun May 23, 2010 10:05 am

Dont you hate that when big Barra ruin a good PT session

scottmac · Post by **scottmac** » Sun May 23, 2010 12:55 pm

The 'Nourlangie Tiger' brown barra bait is my favourate lure at Cahills Crossing. They still make them, but they have changed slightly. I've got one of the originals left, but am to scared to swim it!

Fishermans logic eh!