Barra Museings

[Jeremy87]

Ahhh Brian, the fever is already beginning as the latest bout of IBD pounds through your veins.... be careful and the winter strain is much more potent as little can be done to ease the symptoms........

My plans for the coming season:

1. Increased time on the water. I have 4 Monduran, 1 Faust, 1 Eungella and 1 Awoonga trips planned between now and 31 December. More will follow in early 2009.

2. Upgraded equipment. I have a new Egrell S10 and Certate Hyper Custom 3000 to break in.........

3. Avoid the 'hype'. Yes I will give Stiffys a go...and frogs.....and slick rigs....and hardbodies BUT I will study the environment around me more carefully and try to match and/or change my offerings depending on the situation.....

4. Listen to the advice of those in the know - especially the locals like Foxie and Steve B at Monduran, Trev and Jas at Awoonga............and think outside the square......

5. Set new goals. No donuts at Monduran this season, try for a new PB (above 114cm) and do everything possible to keep all fish unharmed.......

6. Relax and enjoy.....

I think that's about it!

Regs

Pete

It seems only yesterday that I saw you in the shop for the first time putting photo's up on the wall of your first ever impoundment barra. I can remember looking at the tackle you were using at the time and thinking to myself how lucky you were to land the things. I think i tried to put you onto something a little better and you wouldn't have a piece of it, now your buying tackle above the quality we sell. Funny how attitudes change with experience. Good luck with all your upcoming trips.

Personally i haven't really made to many fishing plans as yet. All i have so far on the cards is another darwin trip late November hopefully before the wet comes into full swing. I'm thinking of maybe getting a 3 dayer in at maybe awoonga or mondy in my september break if i can squeeze it in between all of my university field trips. I might take another first timer up and see if i can get them onto a metre long before me to keep the trend going. Over the summer break i'll be having a go at the borumba toga as usual and i'm pretty sure dad wants to head down to the severn river to chase cod and yellows from the canoe and head up past harry's hut (a bass trip that we've been planning since i bought my canoe but keeps getting put off by bad weather). Dad and i like to get a barra trip around feb when the school holidays are over but before i start back at uni. So yeh a few cards on the table to play but definatley not all barra related.

[SeekingBarradise]

Hi Brian excellent thread you have going here mate.

Hello to all the other guys & girls that have added to this thread. We got to meet a lot of you this year which was a highlight for us - even if it mean't getting more socialising done than fishing!!! I'm still in trouble from that trip ha. We hope to meet more of you this year.

This spring, summer and next year it doesn't get any better than a spot of fishing on our great impoundments while meeting geat Aussie Characters, many of them from Sweetwater & Ausfish. Many travel from interstate and are only too happy to have a chat in the camp or at the ramp.

To keep a balance between marketing and travelling angler reports so average jo can have a go and we can all learn. Hopefully one article or report will get people to take another kid fishing to enjoy our great outdoors & keep our Great Aussie Culture/way of life going.

To learn every trip and most of all enjoy every second on the water, even in the cold and rain or with a hook in your finger!!! I can't wait for it to heat up enough to get that relaxed cold beer on a hot day feeling on sunset around a campfire after a hard days fishing with friends!!!

How good is it to be an Aussie.
Cheers Lyndon & Kel

[black_sheep]

Brian,

First trip booked for mid Sept to Mondy.

My resolution is to get the monkey off my back and try not to break a rod or 3 this season and get Ben off a donut .

Seriously though - not fish as much of the heavy timber where I so love to fish and concentrate more on areas where they are actually 'feeding' and not just 'holding'.

Also to be more experimental, spontaneous and adaptive rather than going through the motions.

Goal - crack the 120mark or better yet, 125 - I'm hungry so being greedy doesn't bother me - last few seasons, I've felt like an ethiopian! (and probably look like one although I have finally cracked the 65kg mark) .


Hopefully catch up this summer or better still mid Sept - anyone else going to be up there around the 12th of Sept?

[Big_Ren]

anyone else going to be up there around the 12th of Sept?

I might be there

[Pete62]

Hi Brian, good thread sure get's the juices flowing. Sounds like there are a lot of guys doing the same as me, looking up at the year planner and willing the date/s to come around. For me, my first Monduran trip is booked 25 th October and I can't wait to get a shot at my first Barra. In the interum I will continue to trawl through the guts of this awesome site and scavange any piece of info that will increase my chances and also continue the gear preperation and overall volume of same.
So over the week from the 25th if any fellow Ausfisher, I know there will b a few, see to boofheads cruising the lake in their Seajay with bright red Ausfish stickers on the bow I encourage you to come over and TRY to slap the smile off our faces.

Cheers, Pete.

By the way, I picked up a new Brag Mat the other day, it only measures to 120, best get another one......................

[Whitto]

G'Day Color Challenged Sheep.......Tropical Trout...Nipsta.....and myself Whitto will be a Mondy 12/13/14/ September....we will be slumming it around the Camp Kitchen near the Power Station.....u know u are welcome to come over and say G'Day and a guzzle of DrGood........Cheers Whitto

[Barraboss]

For me in the near future, it is to partcipate in the ABT with NAGG and am hell bent on enjoying myself and learn new tricks to entice barra when I get home to Cairns after. I am looking forward to meeting new people, who are interested in fishing, and don't mind a yarn or two, along with a beer or 24... (No I am not an alcoholic Chris!!!!!

I will still be doing my regular trips up to Tinaroo dam, but it will be nice to expand my horizons to the other dams, and see if any of what I know, or at least try to understand, is useful in other locations.

I do not have a certain size barra I want to get, more so quantity of fish, to more or less prove to myself that I am still learning and not becoming stale and "doing the norm (Hope I explained that one OK).

That being said, fish over the metre are always welcomed in my boat

Oh, and I would like to see my wife catch a metre plus so maybe she understands slightly the enjoyment and what adrenalin rush one can get from an awesome fish. I still don't think she will quite get it, but it would be a real buzz to see her accomplish that.

Cheers

Matt

[BR65]

Some good replies fellas, with a fairly common theme running, "step out of the comfort zone"




I reckon the warmer it gets, the worse the IBD is gunna bite



By the way, any one recognize the "Monduran Legend" in Bush n Beach this month

[NAGG]

For me in the near future, it is to partcipate in the ABT with NAGG and am hell bent on enjoying myself and learn new tricks to entice barra when I get home to Cairns after. I am looking forward to meeting new people, who are interested in fishing, and don't mind a yarn or two, along with a beer or 24... (No I am not an alcoholic Chris!!!!!

Matt

WE KNOW Besides you don't look like one

Matt with your keenness & ability , you will do well regardless!

Cheers

Chris

[nipsta]

G'Day Color Challenged Sheep.......Tropical Trout...Nipsta.....and myself Whitto will be a Mondy 12/13/14/ September....we will be slumming it around the Camp Kitchen near the Power Station.....u know u are welcome to come over and say G'Day and a guzzle of DrGood........Cheers Whitto

yeah its looking good for september whiitto i keen to go and the back seem to be settling a little and i hope i have had another injection so i can return the favor and film nath this time and you and you too brian and who is the mondy legend in the bush and beach i havent got it yet been flat out

[NAGG]

[quote=Peter4;871858]

Hey Chris haven't you been moving to Queensland for nigh on a year now? Will it really ever happen?

quote]

Pete ....... It seems that way ( a long time)

The timing was always at the end of this year though ( give or take a month)
I'm actually looking at locations to live + they now want me to start travelling up on a regular basis ........ I'll be up in a couple of weeks time

Chris

[NAGG]

IBD has got the better of me ......... Spoke to Mighty Whitey today & we are going to try to get up to Mondy 12-15th Sept & Awoonga 16-20th .......... I'll know for sure in 2 weeks

Chris

[BR65]

ahhhhh, how is the Mighty Whitey mate??
Started in a blaze, then went quiet, such potential too

cheers
brian

[Steve B]

Brian,

What a great thead. It makes me realise how lucky I am so close to arguably 2 of the best fishing locations in Aust, Awoonga and Monduran.

What do I want this summer??

1. Get my wife to catch her first Barra.
2. Get as many of the local Gin Gin folk that tell me they have never caught a barra...to catch a barra.'
3. Whilst doing 1 and 2 practice and learn for ABT
4. Write more books
5. Fish as much as I can, but not too much to get into trouble at home.
6. Meet the Ausfishos who I haven't met yet. And fish more with the ones I have met.
6. Fish AWOONGA MORE....I miss the place, it holds great barra memories for me.
7. invent a lure
8. make a Monduran DVD - thats serious!
9. work less
10. Take more photos and keep loving the challenge of barra chasin!!!

cheers Steve

[NAGG]

ahhhhh, how is the Mighty Whitey mate??
Started in a blaze, then went quiet, such potential too

cheers
brian

Still learning to read & write

Did you know ...... That "The Stig" from Top Gear is really MW TRUE!

Chris