queensland Awoonga Spills Over

[Brian D]

Yeap Awoonga is overflowing

Looks cool

Watched heaps of barra go over the wall an into my local river

so I go to the launch site and find this

[rosstralia46]

eating all the barra hopefully once that croc buggers off you will be able to get into the barra once the closed season is over

[Brian D]

so back to the over flow

in the 10 mins or so I watched I saw about 50 barra go over....it's been overflowing for 2 days ....that's a lot of barra to play with in the local! The water is about 300mm over the wall lip. I don't know but I suppose it will over flow for another 3 days..thats a lot more barra.

[crazywalrus]

Thanks Brain - looks like you will have a great fishery now. Would love to see it happen myself. The thought of watching a meter plus barra go over the wall is interesting.

[bootyinblue]

I think someone is quietly excited at what is to come!

Great pics, and a massive amount of water.......

[ellicat]

Where's Steve Irwin when you need him ?

How many kilometres of river below the wall, Brian ?

[Eug]

Overflow looks cool. I take it those splashes are barra?

Thanks for the pics Brian.

Heard Mondy isn't far from overflowing etiher.

[rosstralia46]

be interesting to see how they go and if many die after going over

[mick fillet]

good piccys cheers would like to see this for my self too.

[nadders]

crocodile attack can cause serious injury or death

[Brian D]

Those splashes are indeed Barra. My little Olympis doesn't do justice to the size of things.

[adambris]

thats amazing, thanks for the picks brian.

[Brian D]

Eli - it's a bit of a distance to the wall but there are heaps of options between the wall and the launch area. I paddled as far as I could towards the wall before the spill but then got blocked by weeds and narrow water. Things will be different now so I should be able to get further. It's about a 6 hours round fishing trip from launch to wall but without fishing I imagine it's only about 2 hours but I'll never know cause I will always have a rod in the water.

I am trying to find out from the locals where will be best once things settle down but no-one has experienced this before, at this magnitude I mean. Pikes crossing is about a K from the wall and that is the first weir. I am hoping that the barra will go over that and head further down.

And yes I am getting very excited. Work should settle down next week, the water should settle down and I should get a good go. There are so many choices. I am supposed to be going off shore today but after doing something like 25 days straight my home duties are calling. I learnt a long time ago - fishing is more successful once everything else is in order. The barra can wait.

Here's the ramp - well the turning cycle at the top of the ramp

[bootyinblue]

I learnt a long time ago - fishing is more successful once everything else is in order.

Can we have a Quote Of The Month segment?

That is it!!!!!