My 20kg plus Barra = )
Submitted by poddyfish on Sat, 2008-02-09 15:34
after 12 yrs of trying i finally cracked the 40pnd club with this baby!!! :-))
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mako magic
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top fish and its in great
top fish and its in great condition, nice colors well done, great pic too but if you had a croc in the back ground the pic might have been a bit better hahaha
poddyfish
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For Sure!!
yeh mako thats for sure... mate i was on that much of a high i didnt even think bout that croc aye... silly but hey its not every day i get a fish like that... rapt!!
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Nice fish!
Nice fish indeed, i rate barra and i'm still in the wait of the 30lb fish (got the 25lb).....awesome stuff....well done!
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Half your luck mate, very very very jealous!
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scuttlebutt
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Killer fish mate, looks like
Killer fish mate, looks like you get onto some great Barra action. Wherever we find Barra over here (east coast) the crocs are always pretty close by. Are there no crocs where you are or was that just a moment of insanity?
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Insanity
hey scuttlebutt
yeah mate we are just starting to see or hear of a croc siting every now and then... if u look in my gallery the pics of that croc was from the night before bout 800m upstream of this spot... 8-10 footer.... but man i was buzzin from adrenaline so wasnt too fazed haha :)
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Great fish and picture
cracker fish well done
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Beautiful
Got to be happy with that Poddyfish after 12 years hard labour. Ahh the sacrifice.
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skinny
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congrats
Nice fish!well done mate great effort,lure or bait.
poddyfish
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Labour
mate if thats work id do it for a living..... catching them puppies rocks ya socks
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poddyfish
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800gram Yellowfin
live bait mate....was super hard to get too... managed a handful of big mullet that the majority of our runs came from and some real big yellowfin whiting... thats wat this baby took.. a horrrse whiting which i coulda filleted for feed but nah bait hahaha
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skinny
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yellowfin
A mate of mine loves whiting as livies for big barra,he uses them before mullet.
poddyfish
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Good Bait
yeh mate they are good liveys.... anything alive and swimming will catch a hungry barra.... caught them on small bream and trevally aswell on hard days...
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scuttlebutt
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Haha, yeah I can relate to
Haha, yeah I can relate to the adrenaline bringing on insanity. I did a similar thing last year with a 98cm fish in a croc infested creek in the Gulf. Just thinking about it gives me the shivers now though. One of my mates ended up in the news a few months earlier after getting mouthed by a croc near Thursday Island. It changed his life, but didn't stop me from trying to get eaten!
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poddyfish
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Free Diving
was that the police officer free diving for crays thats was all over the news scuttlebutt????
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scuttlebutt
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Yeah, the one and the
Yeah, the one and the same. He's got a good story to tell now that's for sure! Doesn't do as much snorkling these days though.
steve
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understandable...
mmm thats kinda understandable after a croc kinda has a taste of ya knoggen.... good on that bloke for going back in the water or well thats wat he rekons he was gonna do....
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