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Day 3 has fired up

Metre fish caught
100cm Mark Jungfer Team Complete Angler
108cm Jeremy Johnson Team Costa
109cm Darren Eilersen Team Nekit
116cm Michael Comley Pumpin Mud

Day 3 TOP 5
1. Top End Tackle World 1226
2. Team Costa 875
3. Pumpin Mud 738
4. Cunning Stunts 688
5. Dead Fishy 668

Barra Nationals 2016 results
Comp was held in extreme low water conditions. Several reports of damaged boats.
See the attached picture for the results per day versus the tides.
There were 482 fish caught for the week, with 15 over a metre.
The big fish came on from Day 3, perhaps interestingly, during diminishing tides.

Day 1
Total of 71
One metery
Biggest 109cm

Day 2
Total fish 102
No meteries
Biggest 85cm

Day 3
Total fish 99
Biggest 116cm
Four meteries

Day 4 results
Total fish 107
Five meteries
Biggest 116cm

Day 5 results
Total fish 103
Five meteries
Biggest 116cm

Overall results

Biggest Barra for the week were three at 116cm - that's right, tied with three anglers!

Champion Female angler Rocky Edwards 132 points

Champion Angler Jeremy Johnson 1341 points

Champion Mixed Team DEAD FISHY 1644 points David Green, Rocky Edwards, Troy Dixon

Champion Interstate Team ABU REVO 748 points Peter Kerr, Duncan Eddington, Ben Brown

Champion Local Team TOP END TACKLE WORLD 1457 points Shane Compain, Tynan Bartolo, Terry Ryan

2016 Club Marine Insurance Barra Nationals Champion Team ...
TEAM COSTA 1785 points Jeremy Johnson, Chase Karpenko, Trevor Shultz

Attached below is table showing how the fishing went versus the tides ...

For those with an FB account, here's the scene at Browns Creek from Helifish ... https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... 911&type=3

I'll interview someone from the comp later for a more detailed report.

Good list of final results ... http://www.news.com.au/national/norther ... c3c50a4292

Where is the best place to view photos?

There is a Barra Nationals Facebook page with some good photos

Just spoke to Jez Johnson, who won the Barra Nats. Great story ... he's not local (lives in Cairns, although has a Territory history), was in a borrowed boat, had no sidescan, and was in a completely different team from last year.

And only his second Nats ...

Last year his team was second, so it doesn't look like just luck. He skippered this year.

Legendary stuff!

He said their strategy was to find the clearest water, and bait. There was very little bait through the whole comp.

Heard the story on the Tinny boys. Awesome. Would love to be apart of it one day

I fished with team COSTA this year and have to say the barra nats is the best run tournament I have fished.
A big thank you to all the sponsors and the PGFC for all their hard work couldn't happen with out you guys and girls.

Congrats on the win Trev.

Good on ya fellas