| Marrakai |
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| 21/06/17 06:50 PM |
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Couple of nice barra on the fly
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Haven't had as much time on the water as I would like over the last few months, but managed a couple of cracker barramundi nevertheless.
Three 'meteries' so far this year, all on the 9-weight, and all land-based.
Hope you like the photos:
Right on 100cm, caught during the 'wet' on one of my flashy gold rattle-rousers.
This one scoffed a 4/O rattling 'Pink Thing' and measured 112cm.
Also taken on a rattling 'Pink Thing', this specimen took the tape out to 113cm.
All were extremely challenging amongst the waterlilies, hyacinth, and submerged paperbark logs!
But that's all over now....
The cool weather has brought the tuna and mackerel into the harbour, so....
Hi-ho, hi-ho, its out to sea we go!
| Waidmannsheil |
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| 21/06/17 07:17 PM |
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Very nice, lovely fish and well done. Good to see that you got them on a fly as well.
Waidmannsheil.
| DarylS |
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| 22/06/17 04:26 AM |
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THOSE are huge, with such large scales and predatory, too.
Are they a bass family or visa-vera?
Big fish indeed. I see you guys are measurers, not weighers.
35 to 50 pounds just a guess.
| 93x64mm |
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| 22/06/17 05:55 AM |
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Well done Marrakai, I heard that you could catch Barra on flies, certainly didn't think such small ones though?
At least with the mackerel you won't put them back if over the 1 meter mark!
| Claydog |
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| 22/06/17 08:00 AM |
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Cracking barra. Be good to give the fly a go one day if that was the result. Daryl they are a perch.
| spinna |
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| 22/06/17 08:06 AM |
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3 x Great fish Marrakai.
Crocs would keep you on your toes when land based fly fishing.
| DarylS |
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| 22/06/17 10:06 AM |
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Yeah - tks - they do sort of look "perchy" - lol.
If anything like our Canadian fresh water perch, they are excellent filleted (steaks I guess), dusted with cajun powder and fried in butter - oh man - my mouth is watering now! Oh BOB- what a meal - like candy for supper or lunch, or lunch AND supper. Really difficult to stop eating them.
| Marrakai |
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| 22/06/17 12:19 PM |
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Thanks for your kind comments gentlemen.
Daryl:
our fresh-water barra are catadromous, heading down-river to the saline estuaries to spawn, however populations exist in both fresh and salt water.
Specimens that have lived in freshwater for a while can take on a 'muddy' taste, making 'catch and release' a no-brainer, however those from the salt are marvellous table fare and rarely escape the icebox.
I sometimes hear people say that the eating quality of barramundi is overrated, which simply tells me that they have never tasted a wild-caught saltwater barra cooked within 24 hours of capture!
NitroX
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| 22/06/17 07:07 PM |
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Quote:
Thanks for your kind comments gentlemen.
Daryl:
our fresh-water barra are catadromous, heading down-river to the saline estuaries to spawn, however populations exist in both fresh and salt water.
Specimens that have lived in freshwater for a while can take on a 'muddy' taste, making 'catch and release' a no-brainer, however those from the salt are marvellous table fare and rarely escape the icebox.
I sometimes hear people say that the eating quality of barramundi is overrated, which simply tells me that they have never tasted a wild-caught saltwater barra cooked within 24 hours of capture!
Well done mate. Huge feeshes!
I agree completely on the taste of barramundi. Though I have never turned away any we have caught, whether inland or estuary. What the people saying barramundi is "ho hum" are probably eating is all the farmed barras sound down South in the supermarkets and fish shops. A wild caught one is so much better and tastier. And I wish we could still get wild caight barra down here like we could back in the 1980's. Nowadays all farmed as far as I know.
Those barras are huge. How long does it take to bring one in on your fly rod?
| Bidgee |
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| 28/06/17 05:15 PM |
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Damn, they are absolute crackers! Well done!
| Mike_Bailey |
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| 29/06/17 03:56 AM |
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Brilliant, I tied a couple of those flies you recommended Marrakai, will get to try them some day !
best
Mike
| DarylS |
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| 29/06/17 04:21 AM |
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Brilliant, I tied a couple of those flies you recommended Marrakai, will get to try them some day !
best
Mike
Good idea, Mike - but - I thought I'd just go fishing with Marrakai & use his flies.
| DarylS |
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| 29/06/17 04:28 AM |
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I just looked that fly up and it would probably slay pike and pickerel (Walleye) as well.
http://www.fishingcairns.com.au/page6-6.html
| twobobbwana |
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| 20/07/17 01:28 PM |
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What a bunch of "ball tearers".
Looks like you've worked out the formula for big barra in your neck of the woods.