Well it stopped raining long enough for us to wet the lines at Bluemetal Creek in the Russell River National Park just north of Bramston Beach. Apparently there are some rather large crocs in this neck of the woods and after telling some locals that we hadn't seen any, they informed us that they would have seen us by now! But anyway with watchful eyes we have been fishing on regardless. It's a great place to camp, right on the beach and with a very pretty creek mouth only a few hundred meters away from camp. Here's Bronson trying his luck.
Day one and we only managed to catch a flat head. He was a good size but with food in the fridge he went back for someone else to eat. We did get reports of big barra being caught only the day before and the fellow that caught it was coming back again and again. 2 hours before low tide and 2 hours before high tide were the times he recommended. Day two and we tried to cover some more bases with different styles of fishing. Brons had the lures out (but we don't actually have any Barra lures) and tried his luck with some pippies on a Sabiki rig and caught a three fish. One that was unidentified and two that we think were Scats (will confirm later when we look them up). At almost pack it in and go and have a bacardi time our friend showed up again so we kept fishing for a bit. His fishing companion hooked into a barra right at the creek mouth in murky fast flowing water - who'd have thought! Bronson was fishing soft plastics at this stage and Ruth on the fly with a pink thing. Next thing Ruth hooks into something. A bit sluggish to start with but once it realised it was hooked the sage had a reasonable bend in it. A few boils, a couple of small runs and a tighten of the drag and we realised that it was a barra! Happy Ruth! He was about 40cm and maybe 5lb. Apologies for my tummy hanging out in the photo - must get around to sewing that button back on!
And just to prove that it was caught on the fly......
Handed the rod to Brons (as his was in Lulu) to see if we could make it two. But that was it. The other fellow and his friend landed three keepers (60cm) and dropped two for the session. So a couple of celebratory bacardis have been had and we are getting up early tomorrow to catch the top of the incoming tide again to see if we can do it all again. Did I mention Happy Ruth?!
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