Three Day's Fishing In Qld

[aussiebasser]

I've had a fairly hectic Easter, as I finished work a couple of days early to get some fishing in before spending some family time.

Wednesday morning I went north to Lake Monduran, about 20km north of Gin Gin, or 380km north of Brisneyland. I arrived there at 12.30pm, and started fishing almost immediately. I found a great little school of about a dozen 45-55cm Barra sitting on the surface in an old Lantana bush. First cast with an Arafura spooked them, so I waited a while and used my Bass rod and chucked a Blitzie at them. One nosed it, but took off when I gave it a twitch. I found my smallest Barra fly, which was a pretty big Gold Bomber fly and threw that on my 8 wt. Second cast it got smacked but only held on for one jump. The school took off, so I went for a walk up the bank to see if they'd reform. After ten minutes they were back, so I grabed my bass rod and threw out a Skitter Pop. First cast, another hook-up but it jumped off too. I'd wasted over an hour on these babies, so I went looking for more bays with bigger fish. At about 2.45 I got salmmed by a Barra in the 85 to 95cm range which took a huge jump and ran hard for the trees. I straightened the hooks trying to stop him. Just on dark I had another good strike, but no hook up. I fished through to about 12.30am for nothing, so rolled out the swag and had a few hours sleep. Back up at 4.30am, and and into it again. There was a bit of action at about 9.30 which coincided with the lunar projections. I put a cast into some trees and had a big boof on splashdown, I didn't feel any weight, so changed colours and threw the lure back to the same spot. Second cast, I got hit again, and this time had a hook-up for about 3 metres on line and half a second. This made 5 dropped barra, and none boated. I pulled the boat out of the water at 12.30pm on Thursday, and drove home in time for a feed and some sleep. Next morning I was up at 1.30am and after picking up a mate, drove the 150km down to Brunswick Heads in NSW. We met up with Mark (Mono) Stewart for a days fishing on his Charter Boat. 24 hours after being blown away by Barra, I was being blown away by Wahoo. I dropped four from four hook ups, with other hoo biting me off at the swivel. We did a bit of bottom bashing with Livies, and my first drop saw me substantially blown away by was was suspected to be a big Amberjack. Next two drops saw two Kingies of 87 and 96cm's take my Yakkas 300' down. We then trolled some lures around for a few little Yellowfin Tuna and Mac Tuna. Then the drive bakc home for a good nights sleep. My arms still hurt, but I'm already planing my next trip to Monduran before the weather cools off. A few friends fished there after I'd left and all up boated 9 Barra the following day. I hope I'm over the dropsies, 'cause I've got my heart set on breaking the Bass record at Wivenhoe tomorrow.

HOws this for trees at Monduran!!!! There's bloody acres of them!

[Guest Jocool]

Shame about all the dropped fish mate! Better luck on the Wivenhoe. Looks like pulling a Barra from that mess of timber would be a lot of hard work and burnt skin as you thumbed the spool. Especially on a 95 cm model!

[granpop]

Pity about the dropped fish .

I loved Monduran, but it was too cold for the barra when I was there

I was belted by large fork-tailed catfish and bass though. Dragging them out thru that timber was fun.

Cheers