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otis.drum
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by otis.drum » Mon Jun 22, 2009 1:53 am
chucked in early yesterday and cruised up river for a fish before my night shift. plenty of crocs, fish, sharks, see snakes, sea eagles and fun all round.
3 sharks, 4 barra, 3 blue salmon, 5 fingermark, and a few barracuda.
here's the best of them.
Anna's 80cm blue salmon
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my 81cm barra. note the chomp on his tail.
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Anna's 72cm barra.
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Sparra
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by Sparra » Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:48 am
Looks like good fun...what do you do up there???
Cheers...Sparra
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Benny Nganabbarru
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by Benny Nganabbarru » Mon Jun 22, 2009 10:36 am
Good on ya, Otis!
It's the great, big, broad land 'way up yonder,
It's the forests where silence has lease;
It's the beauty that thrills me with wonder,
It's the stillness that fills me with peace.
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Gringa Bows
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by Gringa Bows » Mon Jun 22, 2009 11:00 am
decent fish mate,i'll have to go fishin again one day...........................Rod
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Stickbow Hunter
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by Stickbow Hunter » Mon Jun 22, 2009 2:25 pm
It looks like it was a great day out - beautiful fish mate!!! I'm sure you will have a few nice feeds from them.
Jeff
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clinton miller
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by clinton miller » Mon Jun 22, 2009 3:47 pm
nice fish mate!
mission or the embley? i'll have a guess it's the mission. 3 barra with a 81 cm and a 72cm is a great effort for june with cold water.
The degree of satisfaction gained from the accomplishment of a goal is directly proportional to the hardships and challenges overcome in order to achieve it.
border black douglas recurve 70# & 58# HEX6-H BB2 limbs
brigalow selfbow with rawhide string
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otis.drum
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by otis.drum » Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:33 pm
thanks guys, was a great day jeff.
clint your on the money. mission at the Y and up the right arm behind the sherga raaf base. got a couple of hot spots. never fail.
...what do you do up there???
bugger all. i work for the mine. 12hr days. 2x days and 2x nights. lucky to do an hour or so of work a day sometimes. amd four day weekends every week
still not enough time off though
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clinton miller
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by clinton miller » Tue Jun 23, 2009 3:12 am
hmmm..... i've hunted pigs up near there.
i'll pm you where to leave the boat when i'm back on my own computer. (GPS points on google earth) didn't get anything but they were there. i could hear them, just couldn't see them in the 4' high grass that was there at the time of year that i went.
The degree of satisfaction gained from the accomplishment of a goal is directly proportional to the hardships and challenges overcome in order to achieve it.
border black douglas recurve 70# & 58# HEX6-H BB2 limbs
brigalow selfbow with rawhide string
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Glenn
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by Glenn » Tue Jun 23, 2009 6:20 am
Half your luck Otis, they are good fish and that salmon Anna has is a ripper...Glenn...
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otis.drum
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by otis.drum » Tue Jun 23, 2009 8:33 am
glenn, where we fish we always leave a big mullet (semi alive) out in the middle of the creek/river hoping to catch a couple of sharks (for the fight and the flake) while we fish the snags and shallows. large salmon often take the mullet out there and they fight like all hell. this one did circles of the boat, going in and under every line we had in, around snags and back out, ran down the river and play games the whole time he was on. we were just glad to get him close enough to see what it was. a bonus to land him. its a great noise when that rods ratchet sounds, and line peels off up the river.
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Glenn
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by Glenn » Tue Jun 23, 2009 8:38 am
Otis, salmon are a hard fish to beat for their fight qualities alone. I have had a few battles with them off the rocks when I lived at Airlie Beach in the 70's. I had a big one strip the grears of my baitcaster one morning...Glenn...
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otis.drum
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by otis.drum » Tue Jun 23, 2009 8:45 am
i rekon they fight like small sharks, fast and move around a lot. great fun anyway
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