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Re: Your first barra?

Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2017 3:56 am
by bobj
1964 at the Lower Level water supply, Katherine.

Re: Your first barra?

Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2017 10:54 am
by deepblack
55cm on a Gold Bomber in 2006 at Knotts Crossing in Katherine. Just happened to be my first day in the Territory so I remember it very well.

Re: Your first barra?

Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2017 9:38 am
by Agent86
1988 I came to Pine Creek doing some exploration, had read so many stories about Barra, had a day off and went for a drive down the, road to Kakadu and the South, took a while on the old dirt road past Moline mine and was an experience.

Got to the south and drove along a bit down an old track, Walked Down the bank and onto a sandy area, saw a little eddy on the other bank behind a snag and flicked a little Stalwart in there, bang! First Barra, 20cm I reckon, savage little bugger,
caught over 30 that day up to 65 :-)

Re: Your first barra?

Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2017 5:22 pm
by JAH
Fishing Roper River in Aug 96.In a little 11ft tinny with a 15hp on the back.Live baiting in the snags near the Hogdson.We had a tree branch going straight across the middle off the boat,when we landed it i reached over the branch for a big High 5 with the brother which snapped and nearly put the both of us into the drink we nearly shat ourselfs.Think it went 63cm ate it that night bl..dy beautiful.Was also the first time I ate Barra.
Have a good laugh about it now and how clueless we were on the fishing front.Dont think things have changed much.

Re: Your first barra?

Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2017 5:55 pm
by ronje
1957 in Lion Ck run-off behind Rocky airport.

Got 3 of the little buggers on a bamboo whacko rod with a little live fish under a plonk bottle cork with green string line.

Each would have been maybe 15 - 16 inches in length but monsters to me at 10 yrs old. Only ever caught Powertail before that.

Still got an old bamboo whacko rod but not my original.

Re: Your first barra?

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 7:17 am
by NT Wombat
2001 off the Barrage at shady camp, was up here on holidays from NSW, no idea about the rules, walked out on the barrage with my yellow belly gear and a $5 kmart special bomber knock off, first cast caught a 60 something cm barra, got growled at (fairly) by the ranger who pointed out the big "no trebles" sign!

Lucky he could tell I was stupid not criminal and didn't give me a fine once I chucked the fish back.

Re: Your first barra?

Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 2:10 pm
by Davi-D
Mine was in Onslow 2012 before Wheatstone took over. I was working night shift and would take off after work for a couple of hours and fish 3 mile creek. I found that if you walked across the creek at low tide you could fish the next creek along which was alive with fish. I hooked a 58cm. Took it home and my brother cooked it up, hes the better cook. That fish made me like eating fish again. First time eating barra and it blew me away.

Re: Your first barra?

Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 7:47 pm
by Matt Flynn
Not too many people caught their first barra in Onslow!

Re: Your first barra?

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2017 2:38 pm
by Saltboy
First one was back in early 70'S with the old man on a trip up to the Fitzroy to visit relatives. Moving up to Mackay from the Goldy 2 years ago saw me fish again for Barra after many years of not, and after coming home from a big 10 day 12 hours a day fishing trip to Hinchinbrook with not a Barra, landed a 65cm 400m from the Seaforth boat ramp on 3rd cast!! Go figure. That filled in a gap of about 15 years between Barra. So a second coming I guess.

Re: Your first barra?

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2017 4:12 pm
by skotty74
78cm in1990 trolling a gold bomber over a sand bar at west arm of Darwin harbour with my old boy

Re: Your first barra?

Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2017 2:25 am
by bigcroc
Tep ill never forget it 930pm full moon on the mud at Cahills,12 years old ,my oldys got p...ed and forgot about me,little daiwa eggbeater,6lb mono 4 inch nils master,casted at a wake and the result as it was feet back then .the old fold out card table the tail was hanging of the edge diagonal.It was the biggest Barra caught for a long while and my photo was on the wall of the old shop until the big flood wiped it out. My post and pic is on here ,was that you that picked me up ..

Re: Your first barra?

Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2018 1:51 pm
by justin
darwin harbour 2006 62cm in catalina creek.

Re: Your first barra?

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2018 10:41 am
by Matt Flynn
bump

Re: Your first barra?

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2018 11:31 am
by b-radical
My first was at a place called Willems Pool a freshwater part of the Fitzroy River between Broome n Derby on a boat with a cherabin i think it was around the 50 cm mark

Always fished with live bait for barras then i moved up here and its all lures plus i now have a boat and don't sit on the bank anymore, still trying to work out the lure fishing although when you do get a hit that feeling of excitements pretty awesome

Re: Your first barra?

Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2018 10:23 am
by matt1311
Darwin harbour first time fishing up here on a live mullet 67cm and then got 56cm in the cast net if only all my trips were that successful