A 147cm barramundi
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 6:46 pm
A 147cm barramundi ... https://www.facebook.com/fishing.gps.re ... rs.wrecks/
I did note the doubt on the page regarding growth rates echoed here. And I agree that it seems extra ordinary. To address the keyboard 'experts' there I put together the following post on that page -ronje wrote:I think the claim should be believed in the context of the other claims made in the post.
To claim in support that a 3 year old barramundi reaches 117cm is simply fanciful.
Enthusiasm rather than common sense at work.
It appears to be but errors can be made as we're only human and there are a few of them in the train from capture to reporting. What has me confident is the fact that three of the larger fish caught all belonged to that Ord strain and there was two separate methods of testing by two separate organisations - the hatchery where we sent the samples to and the University that in turn got them from the hatchery. If a stuff up was made it was done for all three fish. I'm banking that both orgs were professional enough in their id process that something like that wouldn't happen.NBN wrote:Wow.
Dick, to confirm; the 115 was just on 3 years old?
Next time I can find an aggregation of larger fish to target. It'll be a bit different this dry, the lake was dropped 5 metres whilst they did some work on the dam over the wet and we've had a heap of water run through the system over the wet. Spillway is running somewhere around for metres at the moment so there is a lot of water moving through the system. Not sure what that will do regarding finding those big girls again, will have to see but confident I'll spot them sooner or later. Can still find the smaller ones. Got one at 92 the other day and they show on the sounder. A bit hard to tempt just at this point however.NBN wrote:Thx for the info Dick, very interesting. Phenominal growth rates.
When is the next sampling scheduled?
Think you will find near all them dead barra / crocs are from being smashed from going over spillway wall or being smashed in the Rapids current of spill way , just like the big barra in this article . As for the rubbish , caused by dirty pigs the two legged kindbobj wrote:Very interesting. In Sept. 2011 my wife and I went to the Spillway to our old campsite above the bridge and;
We liked the Spillway area and millions of gallons of good water going down it. A few days spent relaxing and fishing for whatever was silly enough to take a lure. Managed several 'hits' but only landed 1 fish, a freshwater longtom of about 65 cm. No pic as I had left the camera in the camp and walked the bank.
I must say that Jo and I were thoroughly disgusted at the amount of rubbish left at the various 'camps'. In a 1 km section of the spillway, I picked up enough fishing line, ranging from 10 lb to 120 lb to fill 2 placcy shopping bags!
Another gripe...5 dead and rotting freshwater crocs at 3 of the 'camps'. These people really are moronic. Also, found 4 dead and stinking barramundi amongst the rocks, the smallest being 116 cm and the largest being 125 cm...A great and sad waste.