Moonlit Bazzas
Submitted by Daisy on Sun, 2011-08-14 07:41
Hey Guys and Gals,
It's starting to warm up here so I thought I'd go up the creek with the main target being Blue Salmon but in the off chance a Barra or 2 might be lurking, got in before the low and trolled and casted small to medium hardbodies with plenty of success on small to middling Blues. I guess we would have got about 15 or 20 between us. We were way out the front in the gutter waiting for the tide to push up which it finally did around sun down as we got in I said to memate Brett that we'll troll in and out of the first stretch and then head off, We trolled downstream but were doing a bit over 3 knots with the current and it was on the way back I got hit, turned to see the Barra jump and got the jitters as I do with the first one every season
. Landed her at about 85, back to the troll and got another around 78. managed to lose another boatside, Brett lost one on the first jump and then I lost another the sticks (thankfully hooks were barbless), it was perfectly calm and moon was well up, beautiful watching those Barras jump.
By about 8:30 it was time to pull the pin.
Cheers, Daisy
It's starting to warm up here so I thought I'd go up the creek with the main target being Blue Salmon but in the off chance a Barra or 2 might be lurking, got in before the low and trolled and casted small to medium hardbodies with plenty of success on small to middling Blues. I guess we would have got about 15 or 20 between us. We were way out the front in the gutter waiting for the tide to push up which it finally did around sun down as we got in I said to memate Brett that we'll troll in and out of the first stretch and then head off, We trolled downstream but were doing a bit over 3 knots with the current and it was on the way back I got hit, turned to see the Barra jump and got the jitters as I do with the first one every season
. Landed her at about 85, back to the troll and got another around 78. managed to lose another boatside, Brett lost one on the first jump and then I lost another the sticks (thankfully hooks were barbless), it was perfectly calm and moon was well up, beautiful watching those Barras jump.By about 8:30 it was time to pull the pin.
Cheers, Daisy
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CCC
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cant see the pics
cant see the pics
Wazza79
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Sounds awesome mate! Headin
Sounds awesome mate! Headin up to Hedland Tuesday for 10 days, so hoping to give a few of the creeks a crack. Good news bout the Bazzas.
Daisy
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Sorry mate I can see them on
Sorry mate I can see them on my comp anyone slse having the same probs ?
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crasny1
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Yes daisy
Hi Mick
Yes bud I have the same issue. Was it the lucky Mullows that you took out. Would be awesome to see the shots. When I click on the link goes to NT fishing site and still cant see them.
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Mullows is my bluewater mate,
Mullows is my bluewater mate, I do all the brown water meself, took a colleague of mine from work. Photos should be all better now, copied and pasted from the other site, you wouldn't have seen them there unless you are a member and logged in.
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crasny1
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Got it
Nice early season barra. Love the shine on the last one. Healthy looking fish for this time of year.
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Nice work
Sounds like your pretty pumped for the barra seasion. Looking forward to more stories and pics.
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oooh august
Ooooh August barra, hopefully will be a good season.
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niiiiiice one Daisy, couple
niiiiiice one Daisy, couple of weeks sooner than my earliest.
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nice early barra there Daisy.
nice early barra there Daisy. Brad and I got some in August a few years ago and were suprised then but you've gone a few better. What was the water temp in the creek?
Fingers crossed I can do a trip or 2 later this year
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Yeah my earliest ones yet,
Yeah my earliest ones yet, temp in the creek was around 24 as the tide bottomed and came in at about 25.5 so it was up there on last last year, my earliest then was 31st August out of the freezer at 22.6. Happy Days.
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carnage
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nice work daisy im gonna get
nice work daisy im gonna get one this season fingers crossed
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mullows
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Top work there mudflaps!
Top work there mudflaps! I was only saying to someone the other day that with this warm weather it wouldn't be long till some start getting pulled out.
Talk soon.
Cheers
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POC
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Good stuff Daisy
They are getting earlier each year.
What a way to start.........................good one.
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Brucesta
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good work daisy thats
good work daisy thats awesome for this early in the season!
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Nice work Daisy, I thought
Nice work Daisy, I thought they'd be happening soon, might have to get up the creeks sooner than I thought.
Cheers Nath
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