The 3rd Annual Mr Fishwrecked Pilbara Bazz trip
What a battle this last couple of days was. The weather was very odd, we encountered squalls, hot still weather, rain, cloud and cold nights however we sailed on in search of some new ground.
Adam arrived late in the afternoon and we set off pretty much as soon as we could after picking up a carton of beer and a few extra litres of fuel. We were racing the tide to a place neither of us had ever been to before, infact the whole purpose of this trip was to do some exploring, find some new ground in the port Hedland area. Anyway we got to an area and nosed our way in, only to realise that we had gone into the wrong creek. The tide was falling fast and with less than a foot of water we managed to crawl out and into some slightly deeper water near the mouth. The tide had by now dropped too much and we were stuck for the night.
Well the spot didn’t look too bad so after gathering a few livies and cooking up a few snags we soaked a few. It didn’t take long for Adam to hook up, unfortunately we only had 25lb fluoro carbon leader at that time of the trip (don’t ask) and he was pinged. I hooked up almost straight after Adams bust off, a barra was tail walking in the moonlight only to have me bust off next to the boat (again we didn’t have any leader). Anyway we fished that spot and dropped about 4 barra. We did land some nice fingermark, jacks, threadies and other typical creek stuff.
The next morning we decided to bite the bullet and return to the ramp so that I could pick up my bag of leader, we pretty much lost half a days fishing because of that. Not to worry. Once again we were on our way, this time to a different system in search of some new ground. We entered a creek later in the afternoon and sounded out some fishy looking water, looks promising I said to Adam, let’s fish here. And we did after some procrastinating. Anyway we got some good sized livies and after some more snags in bread we settled into a session.
Adam managed the first landed barra after enticing a mid 70's fish out of the snags on popper and some dodgy 12lb braid. He was pretty stoked and I was too. After wasting the first day of our trip and dropping probably 6 barra all ready we had one in the boat.
first fish of the trip
the sleeping quarters
popped bazz
first of the trip.
Anyway not long after that Adams livie rig screamed off. What followed was a pretty intense fight. The barra went hard and actually got him into the snags a few times. He managed to get it out but there were some pretty adrenaline pumped moments before this new PB went into the net. 101cm of barra, Adams first metery and as you can imagine he was pretty stoked. The beers flowed after that.
101cm
a happy camper
well we settled into a good little session, I dropped about another 2 fish before I landed one, Adam landed another two smallish fish but it was a good session anyway given the water temp was down around the 26 degree mark
89cm
Anyway the next day was very odd, things were shut down and the water temp was down to 24 degrees. We ended up doing some more exploring since we had the time. We ended up finding a nice hole in another creek out of the wind. There were a lot of fish showing on the sounder so that is where we ended up fishing for our last session. Things were pretty action packed there for a while. We caught a heap of gold snapper, jacks, good sized threadies, grunter and a couple of barra on SP's. We also dropped another couple of bazzas on live bait.
bazzas on the sounder
more threadies
Nice Jack
Hungry
Small bazz on an SP
more threadies
Another bazz on an SP
Anyway we rounded up a pretty good trip and in 25kt winds made our way home. On the way out we saw something pretty amazing. A kangaroo was having a swim way out on a sand bar. Not sure if he new what he was doing but he did eventually make his way back to shore before the incoming tide got a hold of him too much.
cooling off
mullows
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Wicked! Cheers Mullows
Wicked!
Cheers
Mullows
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scottland
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sounds like an awsome trip
well done adam on your metery
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piston broke
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Great report mate
you certainly know how to catch Barra. cheers Pete
Ben Derecki
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rippin
Woohoo. Fantastic pics guys and great story. Man that's some beautiful country up there, looks like a seriously awesome trip.
Love that shot of the hungry jack with the tail hanging out of its mouth.
Andy Mac
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Another tick in a box
well done guys.
Cheers
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Fozz
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Great Report Brad
Another successful mission by the looks, congrat Ads on the metery. Still no shortage of quality fishing there guys. Hats off
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STEVE231
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Good report and some nice
Good report and some nice fish caught. Well done Adam on your big bazza!!
till
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Top trip and grats again on
Top trip and grats again on crackingg the meter mark!
bibs
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sweet as
nice work boys some quality fish and pics there.congrats on the PB adam and well done on finding the fish in foreign waters brad
Boozehag
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Awesome
Brad you are definately the Barra king how do we get to have a trip with you, good to see someone that knows what he is looking for, Ads well done on your PB Barra, mate i have never caught one yet lived most me life in the Pilbara, one day one day
Marky
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Well done, looks like some
Well done, looks like some good healthy looking Barra there fella's.... Great job.
Well done on the 101cm... What a feeling hey.... Only got my first metery a week or so ago... such a good feeling.... I felt a little lost afterwards... Bit like winning the grand final... Where to from now?? Im ova it now and looking for the 102cm....
Great photo's too....
Seaquest
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Well done guys, some real
Well done guys, some real quality. If Adam is Mr Fishwrecked than Brad should be Mr Barra, he certainly knows how to find them.
damo6230
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great trip and report Brad
congrats to Adam for entering the metery club.
obviously great skipper skills and knowledge.
reminds me to replace my leader.........
Goodz
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Congrats on joining the
Congrats on joining the meter club Adam!!! And well done for getting him onto it Brad! You really are the barra king!
Faulksy
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Brilliant read and Pics,
Brilliant read and Pics, cracking fish congrats, and great to know that its still Swimming/Breeding.
PilbaraBrad
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A lot who are a lot better than me
Thanks for the kind words fellas, compared to a lot of anglers in the Pilbara i am a barra amateur. There are a lot better than I, that is for sure! I learnt nearly all I know off POC (also a member off this site) he has a lot of years experience on me.
It was hard work but a good trip none the less.
soupster51
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1m
Nice work Brad, every trip the experience is growing I'm sure. Good report and pics. Congrats to Adam for cracking the metre.
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POC
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Easy on the old implications mate.
Nice work mate i think iw will have to do a trip up there so you can remind me of some of that stuff.......Definitally need some of your camera expertise mate.
Looks like a great time as usual ....noticed a couple of dead soilders on the bait board there.........LOL.
Cheers POC.
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Great stuff! Wish i were
Great stuff! Wish i were back up there!
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Daisy
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Good work fellas, nice
Good work fellas, nice results early, congrats on the metery Ads. Brad you are the master.
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Webby
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well done boys. congrats
well done boys. congrats adam. im extremely hungry to get that metery. also cant wait to start doing some exploring of my own soon. awsome report and photos as usual brad. Cheers
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Adam Gallash
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Cheers Gang
Cheers gang. Its a night that I will remember for a very long time! First the popped barra on sunset with it smashing the popper twice right near the bank in the snags missing the hooks. When I chucked it back in there the second time it absolutely ate it and gave me a solid work out on the light dental floss. (Also to note it was the same style and colour of popper that I caught my first ever barra on last year) *Also note it was Brad's and he claimed it back 2 minutes after the hooks were out only to throw it in the snags about 2 casts later for it to be lost forever. :)
As for the metrey, ahh, I'll hold onto that story. Thanks B-rad, your a champ mate - I am glad the S-Club (sorry, M-club) singing is over though. M-DOG creek rocks!
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PilbaraBrad
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for sure, hang on to that
for sure, hang on to that story mate it is a cracker.
Anytime mate, anytime
Lucky Tim
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not too sure how I missed
not too sure how I missed this one but once again great stuff fellas, always good getting away with mates and knocking off a few fishing goals in the process. Hopefully there's a few fish up there for me this year to get the Pilbara barra hoodoo off my back.
What's the big 31st year goal now that the metery is off the list?
Adam Gallash
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200 blue
200 black or blue, preferably a blue. Going to give it a serious crack with Jeffro and now yourself seeing as we have the range to get ouuuuut there. :)
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Lucky Tim
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yes, I've been having
yes, I've been having flashes of blue myself.
PilbaraBrad
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I'm in!
I'm in!
Lucky Tim
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roger, spots filled then.
roger, spots filled then. Although we may both get our big blue in Fiji....
till
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I'll have to tag in I'd like
I'll have to tag in I'd like to see one too!