queensland Barra Park 2 PB's!!!!! 12/1/08

[fishyman]

gidday guys just got back from a pretty good day checking out the barra park at Bli Bli.

the plan was to use lures all day NO BAIT and it worked

the catch: chucked lures in barra creek with no succes for a little while decided to get my bream stick and go to teh mixed pond walked around and looked into the water and saw about 10 bream that would easily go 40+cm had a few casts BAM im on, short while later i land my PB bream of 38cm approx to tip on jackall chubby deep. took a photo on dads phone back in the water he goes.

after that decided it was barra time again chucked around some lures i caught 2 lost about 10 dad cuaght 7 lost about 20 then i went for one last fish in mixed pond with my bream gear and chubby. walked teh far side and back of teh pond for 1 nice 40ish cm flathead no photos this tim e as dad had took his phone which would end up making me very sad

kept walking spooked a flathead that would have easily gone 85+cm bloody huge thing had a cast along the bank...wobble wobble bang "oh i missed him" paused the chubby twitch twitch BAM :woohoo: im on at first i didnt know what it was then to my suprise a 75-80cm flathead leaps clear out of the water 4 TIMES :woohoo: :woohoo: after a screaming run that took about 40m of line i landed him measured him against my rod marked the rod with the sticker form my hat and continued fishing caught one small barra on the way back on my new favourite chubby jackall.

borrowed a tape measure measured the spot on my rod he went 75cm give or take a few.

so my day:

3 barra all about 40ish

2 flathead, 40ish 75ish

1 bream 38cm

pretty good day good to get out fishing even if its in a pond

PS: i will try and find teh cable for dads phone so i can get the pics of thsi bream

[Mack_attack]

sounds like an awesome session.

[kevinchen19870316]

top session, now that u give lure nuts some hope in barra park

[fishyman]

yeah i think the reason the barra in the creek were hitting lures was that they put in 341 yesterday.

oh and btw there was a little chubby kid there that caught about 30 on lures in about 2 hours

[mackmauler]

any reason why ud lose so many barra?

[kevinchen19870316]

i guess the hooks r too small/thin and leader's not heavy enough

[fishyman]

the hooks werent sharp on the lures we were was using and i was too lazy to change same with dad.

plus we had teh barbs pushed down i dunno if that effected it but yeah.

[pinkey]

good 1 tom.

[brisbane_boy]

sounds like a nice spot might hav to try there and catching somehthing else apart from cattys

[blue_mako]

kevinchen19870316 wrote:

i guess the hooks r too small/thin and leader's not heavy enough

Kevin you don't understand, the Barra Park requires the complete opposite gear you would normally see people using for Barra. No more then 20lb leader or 20lb main and that's at a max. The norm is basically the same ear you use on Bream, I've caught plenty on 2lb Crystal and it's good fun.

Troy

[Tim a]

Don't forget 2lb Crystal, 6lb yamatoyo leader and sx40s troy

[viperon1982]

where's this barra park might i ask?

[Tim a]

I wouldn't normally answer in someone elses thread but its nearly 3 am so no one else will, Viperon its in Bli Bli, I think its on the Maroochy river(check?) on the sunny coast. Its about an hour and a half drive from brisbane.

[viperon1982]

Cheers Tim a. I really should try freshwater fishing one of these days! Bli Bli and Wivenhoe.. hmm..

[MichaelJ]

at bli bli there water comes in from maroochy river

and i think that the barra there barely touch it and are just hooked in tiny bit of mouth and thats how u lose them from pulling the hooks

how big where the lures u were using?

[fishyman]

i caught mine on a jackall chubby deep and a homemade one about 10cm long, dad caught all his on a homemade one about 80mm

[fishyman]

blue_mako wrote:

kevinchen19870316 wrote:

i guess the hooks r too small/thin and leader's not heavy enough

Kevin you don't understand, the Barra Park requires the complete opposite gear you would normally see people using for Barra. No more then 20lb leader or 20lb main and that's at a max. The norm is basically the same ear you use on Bream, I've caught plenty on 2lb Crystal and it's good fun.

Troy

me and dad were saying the exact same thing troy, i had taken my bream gear and a BC spooled with 22lb and didnt even touch the BC.

My bream gear had 6lb crystal fireline with 6lb yamatoyo leader.

Can i suggest if your are intending on going there either use barbless hooks or crush the barbs down, all teh barra we caught had their mouths ripped and torn from beign caught so many times.

[kevinchen19870316]

i will use 6lb leader if necessary but main line is always 23lb. the fish don't see the mainline. it can be as thick as rope and with 10m leader it will still catch fish.

fish don't care how thick ur rod tip is, do they. lol

[fishyman]

ill pay that

kev your 23lb is like as thick as 6lb fireline anyway hahaha. whats the lowest varivas goes down to

[kevinchen19870316]

they can go down to 6 or 8lb i think.

in the finesse range, there are 2lb(MAYBE) or 4lb ones.

[Plastic Fantastic]

Out of curiosity, how much does this barra park cost to get in? Can you fish the whole day?

[MichaelJ]

$20 if your under 16 for whole day

and $35 i think if your over 16 for whole day

[jeff f]

blue_mako wrote:

kevinchen19870316 wrote:

i guess the hooks r too small/thin and leader's not heavy enough

Kevin you don't understand, the Barra Park requires the complete opposite gear you would normally see people using for Barra. No more then 20lb leader or 20lb main and that's at a max. The norm is basically the same ear you use on Bream, I've caught plenty on 2lb Crystal and it's good fun.

Troy

yeah i'm with troy i was only using 2kg monno and 6kg leader up there it was a blast

[blue_mako]

Does the whole day still mean 9hrs?

Troy

[fishyman]

i think so but not 100% sure

[MichaelJ]

yeh 9am til 6pm