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norcold Guru  Joined: 06/02/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 670 |
Anteror, After 35 plus years fishing in the magic Hinchinbrook Area NQ OZ have finally scored the holy grail of fishing. Caught the below yesterday, 1m plus Saltwater barramundi on a lure with light tackle. With sadness I tried unsuccessfully to revive her and release, she just gave too much in the battle. She probably weighed 20 plus kgs. 
I`m stoked but sad also, a magnificent fish!! We come from the land downunder. Vic |
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| Georgen Guru Joined: 13/09/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 462 |
Impressive size indeed and sorry to hear that you are not too happy with result. Did you end up eating it? I noticed that larger (older) ones are not as tasty as younger examples. Not sure if it applies to salt water Bara. George |
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| norcold Guru Joined: 06/02/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 670 |
Yes even the barra is better eating smaller, I filleted her and she`s good eating. Used her backbones to bait crab pots, and got a good couple of feeds of mud crabs, but it is always a shame to see the big breeders die. One of the disadvantages of using light tackle, the fight is prolonged and they naturally give all, the barra change sex to female as they get large. They are a magnificent fish, spectacular fighter they jump and shake their head to dislodge the lure. Very small head and long thick fillets of white excellent eating flesh. Barra and mud crabs tis what life is about for the tropical fisherman.  We come from the land downunder. Vic |
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vasi Guru Joined: 23/03/2007 Location: RomaniaPosts: 1697 |
Mmm, that looks tasty! Now I want to eat some fish without bones (I hate when I'm hungry and you feed me with a fish with a lot of bones  ). My river Jiu is polluted with charcoal (our mines rinse the charcoal in it), it is dark, you can't see a thing. Still, there are a lot of catfish in there and you can get huge captures.
Resource Hobbit name: Togo Toadfoot of Frogmorton Elvish name: Mablung Miriel Beyound Arduino Lang |
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| norcold Guru Joined: 06/02/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 670 |
We are very fortunate, our rivers up here in NQ OZ are relatively pollution free, but that is a monster catfish. I can see I`ll have to organise a way of getting Anteror & Vasi a few bone free barramundi fillets delivered fresh to your doors.  and perhaps a few live NQ mud crabs.
Hey!!! Gizmo, Vasi and those in the "silicon" part of the 4M, tis about time you tech folks worked out a way for us to send physical items by email. Promise I`ll email you all a fresh barra fillet.  But wait that`s not all.....a live mud crab with every email.We come from the land downunder. Vic |
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| vasi Guru Joined: 23/03/2007 Location: RomaniaPosts: 1697 |
Yeah, transport covered by internet connection bills. That would be awesome! Well, with some sort of filtering... I won't like a Brown here  Hobbit name: Togo Toadfoot of Frogmorton Elvish name: Mablung Miriel Beyound Arduino Lang |
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