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Dazzamcgee

By Dazzamcgee
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I have heard of barra in the passage. But would like photographic proof. With the salmon here i would not be overly surprised.

When i was Noosa last the number of Barra photo's from the Noosa River up in the wall at Davo's has increased a lot.

Angus

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obone Newbie

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ellicat wrote:

I saw it on another site. No, I don't believe it.

[Thanks to xerebus;) ]

There's a few things that don't add up about it.

Skeptical hey?, as Dazza said, what do you know?

Might be Chaz again :P . Someone had to make the joke.

Joel ;)

Post edited by: obone, at: 2007/07/20 16:09

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Dazzamcgee wrote:

Angus there is a pic of the barra...

Its a decent fish but it looks alot like a jew......I'm not very familiar with barra...

hey dazz can you scan the pic and post it? we dont get that paper out here in the wild west,or do they have a site where we can check it out?

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ellicat Grand Master

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The guy is clearly standing in his boat. The paper (so I've read) said that it was caught in a landing net.

Why would you bother with the lip gripper if you'd just pulled a barra out of your landing net ?

Also it looks like he's very close to shore (beached even). I don't castnet (because I can't) but would you be castnetting from your boat at the ramp ?

Seems too suss to me. But I am sceptical and could be wrong.

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The pic is definately of a barra, (2nd gill plate) but it looks fake, like it was superimposed or something.

Also in the bottom left of the picture there is a line that is a different colour. bit suss to me but u never know, it might be real

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Guys there was one caught in the logan not that long ago. Im not saying its real or fake. But i still rest my laurels on the threadfin situation. In most fishing literature, barra and king threaddies are meant to have the same home range, so hey why not a barra in the passage.

P.S. I know the barra in the logan was meant to have been from a farm. But the point stands that it could survive no worries and be healthy enough to hunt and get caught.

Angus

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jeff f wrote:

dave downie just had the same pic on his fishing report on the news, he said that there was another smaller one caught by a bit further up the passage too

He also has a pic on his site of a girl holding a little one from Raby Bay!
/>http://www.nuggetfishing.com.au/

The article in the paper says in the caption that the barra was weighed in at a tackle shop:huh:

The plot thickens.....and I hope my scepticism is proved wrong.

Post edited by: ellicat, at: 2007/07/20 20:15

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I'm with Angus on this one. No one ever expected Threadfin to be caught as far south as Brisbane. Even when I tell people now most still don't beleive me until I show them proof.

I remember when I did my first couple of reports on them of Jordan and I's catches a couple of years back on ausfish. People were sceptical, possiblly because we were only 14-15 and there had been no other reports of them from the Brisbane River prior to that.

It was only after I did a number of reports on them and more people began catching and reporting them when people started thinking that it might not be bullsh!t after all.

There had been a couple of reports of them being sighted and caught on the odd occasion in the shallow saltwater lakes around Noosa. It looks like the same maybe happening with Barra, a few turning up here and there but not in numbers. If they are anything like Threadfin (which they are) then I'd say give them a couple of years and they will turn up in numbers.

Until then, long live the Salmon!

Troy

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I'm not at all that convinced.

Coming from the tropics (where it is nice & warm).

I have caught alot of Barra over the years, both as pro fishing & rec fishing.Never realy caught any in the cooler months with water temps below 18-20 deg. Last week-end out in the bay the water temp was 12-14deg . At these temps the Barra are def in shutdown mode and are not feeding.

Not to say they are not here ,but if this fish was caught in mid Summer, I would be more inclined to belive it.To catch a Barra anywhere north of Rocky in winter (June/July) is a rare catch , even in the nets.Thats my 2 bobs worth anyway.

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Lozzel wrote:

I'm not at all that convinced.

Coming from the tropics (where it is nice & warm).

I have caught alot of Barra over the years, both as pro fishing & rec fishing.Never realy caught any in the cooler months with water temps below 18-20 deg. Last week-end out in the bay the water temp was 12-14deg . At these temps the Barra are def in shutdown mode and are not feeding.

Not to say they are not here ,but if this fish was caught in mid Summer, I would be more inclined to belive it.To catch a Barra anywhere north of Rocky in winter (June/July) is a rare catch , even in the nets.Thats my 2 bobs worth anyway.

I'm going to say something very unlikely and say, maybe it was foul hooked? :P .

Troy

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