Roper River 119cm
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 4:30 pm
My brothers fish was caught down the Roper in May this year, not sure on the weight but length was 119cm. Put up a great fight with many leaps out of the water, one leap was about a full body length ....I wish I had time to take a photo!
The spot is easy to work out if you have fished the Roper, you can tell where by the background. Caught another at 108cm only minutes after, but no where near the size, so the smaller one didn't even get a photo. Brother caught both metre fish on a RMG 3 metre in a bleeding mullet. Of course I couldn't prize the lure out of his hands, and threw everything I had in my tackle box at them.....but none were as successful as the RMG! Consequently my guiding fees have gone up astronomically!!!!
This was after running around all over The Territory for 3 weeks on our annual trip....running away from the bl..dy cyclone. We really struggled to get any decent numbers, tried everywhere....Shoal Bay, Shady Camp, Bynoe, Roper. In the end we spent the final 3 days on the Roper & cleaned up. It certainly is a massive river to fish, very daunting....but you need to go down to 'the salt', always produces...just have to find them is the problem.
The spot is easy to work out if you have fished the Roper, you can tell where by the background. Caught another at 108cm only minutes after, but no where near the size, so the smaller one didn't even get a photo. Brother caught both metre fish on a RMG 3 metre in a bleeding mullet. Of course I couldn't prize the lure out of his hands, and threw everything I had in my tackle box at them.....but none were as successful as the RMG! Consequently my guiding fees have gone up astronomically!!!!
This was after running around all over The Territory for 3 weeks on our annual trip....running away from the bl..dy cyclone. We really struggled to get any decent numbers, tried everywhere....Shoal Bay, Shady Camp, Bynoe, Roper. In the end we spent the final 3 days on the Roper & cleaned up. It certainly is a massive river to fish, very daunting....but you need to go down to 'the salt', always produces...just have to find them is the problem.
