'bout sixty pounds takes to the air

[A_DIFF_PERSPECTIVE]

Lake Awoonga today-The girlfriends barra heads upward and gets itself into some pretty wild positions!! How flexible are these things???
Caught deep casting about midday today. About a 26 kg fish. It inhaled the halco lure all the way; hence the reason it jumped like it did!
Johnny M

[A_DIFF_PERSPECTIVE]

The 80 lb mono leader was badly worn through. Barra that inhale lures and become hooked inside the mouth will almost always jump erratically during the fight damaging the leader. Prolonged fights on jumping fish should see an angler reduce the pressure to avoid being chaffed off!!
Regards,
Johnny M

[Mak579]

Awesome photography Johnny M, awesome !!!

Matt

[gb1979]

Must be fun. Pity they dont introduce em into mid NSW dams. Too cold I guess eh??

[McCod]

Top shot there Johnny..... Mate ya gunna do ya back in one day doing that.... how ya gunna go when there 80 plus pounds ? Eat more wheet Bix ;D

Cheers Les

[SeaHunt]

Get your lure back?

[StevenM]

Top photo

[A_DIFF_PERSPECTIVE]

Sea Hunt,
Yes the lure came out easy, just two hook points stuck inside the mouth. Long nose pliers helped.
Les,
You are right, but its workin ok as it is, and by the 80 lb stage, I'm sure we will come up with an alternate, no net type method!
Biting well at present, 6 good ones today over the metre.
Johnny

[luskin]

Hi Johnny

Great stuff mate!!

Looking forward to trying my luck on @ the 23rd May for a week ; ;), heading to Prossie first then Lucinda and back down to gladstone. Can't wait

Hope I can add some pic's then

Cheers

Sy

[Jeremy87]

Thats awsome. I'm keen to get some aerial shots of barra but we keep catching the things at night. Oh well next time, October is such a long time away though.

[bdowdy]

:)congrats on a awesome fish, and great photos, awoonga is abig place and ive spent days without even a touch. good work cheers bdowdy. ;)