By the end of the first day, a single 50 odd cm barra was winning the comp. yep, one barra out of everyone.
There was a lot of smallish bait (100mm mullet) all along the river but no boofing at all to be seen.
We pulled into a small creek near the top junction and finally some small fish started to boof as the tide changed and started to run out.
Plenty of strikes but no hook up over a couple of hours. Very frustrating fishing
It was stinking hot and the flies were all over us. Climbing up inside your glasses and in your ears.
I managed to hook a small rat, but dropped the silver beauty right at the boat. I was using my beloved threadybuster but still couldn’t get on the score card.
We packed up and went down to Culvert creek for zip. I did see a massive rooster tail but that’s another story.
Day 2 and we headed straight for the creek again. No action to be seen or heard so we pushed right up to the top end of the river for a look.
\very few birds and even less crocs about
There was a fair bit of water up on the floodplains but no runoff whatsoever. Completely different to last years comp where sheets of water were seen flowing from the floodplain.
Anyway, back to the creek that had shown some promise and limited action the previous day. We set up and waited, And waited.
They came on for a short while and boofs could be heard everywhere that we weren’t. especially further up the creek that we couldn’t access
A couple of follows, short strikes but still the frustration of no takes.
Several downsizes of SP’s , a fish was finally boated.
I started getting short-strikes so I dangled a stinger hook and that did the trick
Eventually the fish moved to within range and my deckie was on. She boated 3 fish all up to my single 50 odd cm single fish for the weekend.
Several were dropped right at the boat and one managed to jump off on the mud bank
The boofs were right up against the banks and although we were casting into the deepest water around 1.8m, they weren’t taking the lure until it was in less than 100mm of water. The water was so dirty that you couldn’t even see the take in that shallow water.
One fish almost jumped up the bank to grab the lure but the outcome was a big boof within a metre of the boat and no fish
We stayed there til they went off the bite and then we moved on as well.
My deckie took all the pics so maybe they will turn up somewhere here?
heard you had the best of the best in the deckie department 
