queensland North we went...

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After some frustrating trips chasing Barra (Tina being busted off on a metery and me on a -1) at Mondy. A couple of suspects made the drive up north back in February to Cardwell for a bit of fishing. Cyclone Oswald pretty much dumped freshwater all over QLD, but we still managed to have a great time and a bit of an adventure with some good mates. With the ladies in tow some days were just good to cruise around offshore and have a bit of a fang.

Between us we caught a few rat barra, a stack of cod, bit of vermin, drunk a bit of rum and wine, a couple of grunters, sharks and a couple of others. Tina's shovelnose was taken on 6lb gear and she duked it out for about 30 minutes to bring it in.

Got a stack of fish and scenery pics, probably out of chronological order. The good snaps are most likely Tina's and the dodgy ones are mine lol. Will only throw up a handful.

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more pics

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[Surfingant]

I see a yellow raincoat but no white bucket, disappointing

[ellicat]

How good was that pizza ?!

Looks like you guys made the most of it with the wet conditions.

Tina's a champ to get that shovelly in. Did it go spastic when you first got it aboard ?

[crazywalrus]

Looks like you guys had some fun. Looks like you where lucky with the weather for that time of the year. How long did it take to drive up there towing the boats?

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Ant: We brought two... happy?

Brian: Pizza was pretty good, certainly didn't expect something like that in a small town. Considering supplies hadn't gotten through with most of the roads flooded over they were pretty generous with toppings. Funny story with that, I almost got pulled in trying to tail it boat side and Tina got a big slap to the face shortly after that pic was taken.

Ted: Yeah it was timed with the Barra open season and arranged with work schedules since last year. Had a mate's brother who made the drive up from Tassie so fair hike for him. Brisbane to Rocky took a day, a stop over in Townsville for a mate to see his son and then onto Cardwell. Two full days with all the road works and toilet breaks. We took it pretty easy.

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Some Damiki fella also went fishing apparently?

[sweresy]

great stuff mate, that pizza looks guurd......

[benno573]

cracker trip mate, love the sense of humour on the BCF board...

If only offshore was like that all the time! :woohoo:

[Jig_Meister]

Great report guys!

[mick2me]

great photo's mate, but one thing I've heard of 'rum & coke before' but never 'rum & wine' :sick: hope you didn't have that with the pizza

cheers

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great photo's mate, but one thing I've heard of 'rum & coke before' but never 'rum & wine' :sick: hope you didn't have that with the pizza

cheers

haha should have written it properly

the ladies smashed the wine. rum/coke for greg and i and our other mates hit the whiskey/coke.

[dassa]

Good to see you had the net thing worked out YA MUPPET LOL that's 1 place I'm keen on traveling to very nice place and congrates on the BARRA mate.