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SPECIES: BARRAMUNDI

LESSONS LEARNED

It doesn’t matter which road you take was chaffed. “She’ll be right” as I cast
there are going to be a few harsh it back out. A big girl climbed on next
lessons along the way. I’ll throw and chewed through the leader at the
myself at the mercy of the crowd so boat. Even though I was using good A big girl climbed
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sometimes I’m even nervous using spit your lure out very quickly if they through the leader
that. Sometimes I’ll step that up to feel something isn’t right. By keeping
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shake it’s head from side to side thus friend. We had scanned up some nice
rubbing your leader along its mouth. barra hanging on the wreck with the
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and it chewed straight through it. I drop technique. My mate asked me the damage from
squirted a tear. Lesson learned. a question and I turned around to
Check everything after a barra has answer him while my lure was falling.
been landed. Check your lure, check A few meters of line came off the reel the previous fi sh
I felt a tap and I turned back around.
your split rings and trebles and most
importantly check your leader. I was and a big silver slab come rampaging
in the town reaches of the Fitzroy WKH MXPS ,W ZDV RYHU LQ D IHZ VHFRQGV was enough.
out of the water and spat my lure on
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barra. It was evident I was onto a bite I wasn’t paying attention, my drag was
period so wanted to keep my lure in loose and my focus shifted away so I Lesson learned
WKH ZDWHU 7KH OHDGHU DQG ORRS NQRW couldn’t react. Lesson learned.

Rockbars are prime
structure for barramundi.
There are many throughout
the Fitzroy river

This school size barra was
caught using my favourite
barra spin setup. 4000
Stradic ci4 and Edge ISR 705

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