Little cuties

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Had a trip to Ayr recently and managed to get plagued by small barra. All caught in the Burdekin. Most up in the fresh but had a cracking session down in the salt one afternoon.

Second pic is one of StevenM's lures that he made for me for the trip. It proved popular but not quite as popular as the good old gold bomber.

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How far up in the fresh? above or below the bridge?

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Just below the bridge Jim. I had a look at launching the kayak at the pump station but it just looked too hard. The bloke at the tackle shop offered to take me out further up the fresh but he was heading out the morning I had to head home.

Still good fun but I was hoping to land a good sized big one as I got dusted up a few times last trip and wanted to even up the scores a bit.

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Looks like you caught them on the Emrod - are you still choosing it rather than your conventional rods?
 I am just back from Darwin - went out from Shady Camp on the Mary river but was not game to use mine there - the other guys in the boat laughed too much at my 'back scratcher'!! Caught  a couple of meter + threadfin as well as a few smaller barra on conventional gear .   Will give the Emrod
 a go next week as am going up to the Mole for a few days.

Richard.

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I am actually considering buying another 1 or 2 and doing away with the conventional rods all together for the yak. So much easier to store so they don't get in the way. Only downside is casting ability and if I want to troll. But those things I can live without where I fish.

I bought a new lefty reel (Chronarch 51E) for the trip, not thinking about how much you needed to work barra lures and bugger me it was hard to get into the rhythm using the opposite hand. Still caught a few on it though.

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Damn those pesky little Barra Wayne. Not worried about snappers in the kayak are you?
JD

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Saw one in the fresh which scared me a little as it was no more than 50m away and I didn't know they were in there. In the salt there was a beware crocodiles sign at the launch spot so I was constantly scanning the water and trying to land the fish quickly with minimal splashing.

When I got back to the launch spot I had just got out of the yak and heard an almighty splash behind me.  I sh!t myself and ran up the top of the sand dune that I launched from. There was an old couple up the top and they were laughing their head off at me. Turns out it was two dolphins rounding up mullet. I thought I was a goner 

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I bet they were laughing fit to bust! Here's a grown man legging it up to the high ground with the dolphins not caring a jot. So you didn't actually leave anything on the kayak seat eh.
JD