Chrome Barra Charters

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Addiction plus hey Paul!!??
 I took another film crew today and they managed 6 fish to 125cm in an hour- in favour of tourism promotion for Qld. Fishing like that does wonders for viewers.

Three commercial operators pulled about 4500 kg from the area in the last 24 hours.
J

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Addiction plus hey Pau!!??
 I took another film crew today and they managed 6 fish to 125cm in an hour- in favour of tourism promotion for Qld. Fishing like that does wonders for viewers.

Three commercial operators pulled about 4500 kg from the area in the last 24 hours.
J

Yeh Johnny it sure is an addiction they are so much fun on the blades,good work on the fish you got them!!strange QLD govt promoting tourism and 4500 kg netted now that makes sense!! they should film the netting and see if that helps tourism the govt could buy out the net licences in the river and promote tourism as I'm sure all the local businesses are loving all the business in Tanum and surrounding areas generated from the Barra,I hope to get 1 or 2 more trips before they are all netted.
I thought they couldn't net the river until may 1st?

Paul

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I wouldn't be surprised if the injection of barra into the Boyne pulls more tourist/travelling anglers than Awoonga does at its best. Alot of folks heading there or planning to head there soon (me included)

fitz..

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Paul, the netting is taking place outside the system. One 8m boat could hardly drive onto the trailer and another dinghy couldn't plane. I've seen 3 loads of fish in 30 hours. The netting will hit hard, but the writing was on the wall since the initial stocking- in one way, the stockings and floods were always going to equal a bonanza for commercial barra netters. They are singing that song now. Fish in the river are safe for next 40 days, so now's the time to enjoy the concentration- and many are. Enough fish will, and have scattered far and wide that will be missed by the C sector and they will breed and improve the systems overall. The other way to look at it is that the flood event will increase commercial pressure and put EXTRA pressure on true wild stocks- so at times these 'events' do more damage than the dream it creates! I'm not in full favour of the 'over the wall movement' because of the latter comment about EXTRA  concentrated pressure.
Johnny

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...and back to you,,,,it was pretty cool to see you in the river with the Go Pro camera on your hat, your ipod thingy stereo system on the deck beside you while catching barra. It was like you were in your own world, enjoying the moment while boats zipped all around you. Have you any cool footage to share?
J

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Hi Johnny yeh mate I understand about the presure on the wild fish but it would sort it's self out in the long run without the nets do it for them and I don't see why they should get all that free money for no contribution they will be enjoying it that's for sure.

Mate I love getting out on my own with some music and now with the Go Pro Camera Randall Bryett gave me,I've still got a lot to learn with it,like rain drops on a fish eye lens stuff footage of jumping barra but I have put a small vid on my Facebook page if ya want to have a look and will eventually get it on youtube.

Good chatting to ya the other day if only breifly,I'll be back real soon that's too much fun not to.

Paul

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Here's some updated info on how far the fish are wandering.
This lake barra was recaptured in the Rodd's Harbour, a big system to the south of the Boyne at another typical ground where we target wild fish. It seems that a 50/50 mix of wild versus lake fish is evident.

Barramundi (Lates calcarifer)
Tagged Length 940mm  20/2/2008
Tagged Location -Lake Awoonga
Tagger- Kris McCulloch

Recaptured length 935mm 18/3/2011
Recaptured- Rodds Harbour
Recaptured- Johnny Mitchell

Days Out 1122 (3.1 years)
Growth -5mm (0mm/year)
Movement 56km over dam wall down river and
south along coast
Released, Yes

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Barramundi (Lates calcarifer)
Tagged Length 940mm  20/2/2008
Tagged Location -Lake Awoonga
Tagger- Kris McCulloch

Recaptured length 935mm 18/3/2011
Recaptured- Rodds Harbour
Recaptured- Johnny Mitchell

Days Out 1122 (3.1 years)
Growth -5mm (0mm/year)
Movement 56km over dam wall down river and
south along coast
Released, Yes


Thats interesting that the fish shrunk 5mm in length Johnny, do you think it's because its working harder in the salt?
Cheers.

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I reckon it just landed hard on it's nose when it went over the wall.

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yeah john
amazing to see the number of tags that have been issued into awoonga, and the very minute number that have been returned in the post spill event.  i even looked at the mortalities along the boyne, and found none myself.  interesting to see fish are shrinking, maybe not so good for guiding businesses.  gatcombe fishing ok at the moment by the sounds of it.

cheers
kh

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Recaptured- Johnny Mitchell

Kimberley barra repellant wearing off??

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Thats interesting that the fish shrunk 5mm in length Johnny, do you think it's because its working harder in the salt?
Cheers.

Fish just can't shrink. 99% of the time it is incorrect measuring by operator, measuring apparatus, method or parallex error, either at first capture or at recapture.

A major flaw in having a public input system is inconsistencies due to little or no training, incorrect equipment etc.

Cheers,

fitz..

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A guy fishing near me on Saturday landed a 120cm fish that had a tag in it but he didn't get the details,he said it had too much growth on the tag to see it,I told him he should have pulled it out and sent it in to gain a history on the fish,hopefully someone else will catch it before the nets do and send it in.

Interesting to note there was a 120cm a 117cm and a 110cm fish landed  and 2 other big fish lost within 1/2 hour to  hour of each other at approx 4 to 5pm.
Then Back to the smaller 80-90 cm fish as it was prior that time,  moon rise 4.23 pm and hour and a half into the start of the run in!! low tide was just after 3.

Their adapting well I'd say

Paul
 

 

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Recaptured- Johnny Mitchell
Kimberley barra repellant wearing off??
Ha Ha, yes it must be. I got that nick name in WA last month from scaring away barra anywhere we fished- or so the story goes. I reckon the unpaid guide was dodgey and led me astray!!
The scent or which ever it was has gone now and we're back on track thanks Mr Pasfield.
Check out some of the fish from the Boyne.
http://fishawoonga.com.au/blog/?p=573

Fitzy, yea, measuring mats, open mouths, guess work and the like leads to fumbled info and a not so perfect accuracy in data. One the side plate- once fish hit ice, they do shrink, suprisingly- parrot fish is the first one that comes to mind.
I like Dale's comment- "I reckon it just landed hard on it's nose when it went over the wall."

Kurt, I was surprised that only a couple of tags have been handed in from recaptures. The unknown number of escapees is on the guess list. Fish that move, have moved, and the rest will go when the time is right. Some are ending up in Sydney and Melbourne, via truck, mind you! I watched a commercial guy pluck barra from a net in view of the public a few mornings back. That would have raised a few eye brows. His dinghy was lop sided, and 1200-1500kg of fish were taken in one net. That's only about 100 to 110 fish- not many really.
It'll be interesting to see where tagged fish turn up in the coming year.
There are all sorts of hoo ha's in our local paper today about commercial fishing,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,and who's fish they really are!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
J

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A short You tube I've done on the Boyne Barra on blades,

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