Love flyfishing. Since I've never fished Bara, perhaps I'm overtackling the situation. Here, 15 to 40 pound fish are fighters.

I really like my 15foot 11wgt. Orvis for river fishing for heavy fish, but either of Sage or G.Loomis would be just fine - or Reddington, or St. Croix. A 9 weight would probably be OK for smaller fish to 12, maybe 15 pounds, but for predominantly larger, heavier fish like some posted here, I'd go with a 10 wgt. Those fish have large sides and fins - & appear as if they should fight well.

They look as if they'd be tough like a moderately sized Pacific Salmon which can be really hard on 9 wgt. fly gear in rivers. Tuff Line and other small diameter braids pack tightly on the reel (under the fly line) for extra backing (run protection) - merely my experience from fishing larger hard fighting fish here. Getting spooled is not fun at $90.00 per line.

My larger reels all have a minimum of 200yards of 30 pound modern braided backing. With my 9 weight, I was almost spooled by about a 30 pound Spring on the Bulkley River a few years back (on a 2" stonefly pattern, no less) - nothing I could do to stop him. I was wishing I had my big Orvis instead or at least a 10 wgt. single. Big fish pull hard & it's not fun to have to keep the rod almost pointed directly at him to avoid a broken rod. Not a damn thing I could do - he was headed back to the Pacific - no stopping him.