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\"\"With the weather starting to warm up, the barra have begun to come out again. Over the past few weeks, we’ve managed to land no fewer than 7 barra, but alas, none have been size! Tim and I got up early this morning to take the boat up to the gorge, launching at 5am. The trend continued, with Tim landing a small barra at around 7:30am, and I landed a 45cm at around 12:30pm. In between, we had a few strikes with no reward, and I caught a couple of good bream – one was a perfect pan size, so we cooked it in the boat on the portable stove for a top breakfast. The other came in at a very respectable 32cm.<\/p>\n

\"\"There were a few interesting catches along the way – trolling past the Geikie Gorge rockwall, with the echo sounder showing 30 foot of water, and trolling with a lure that dived to only 3 foot, I hooked a 30cm catfish. It seemed quite a strange place to catch a catty. The other quite ridiculous catch came just after I landed my barra. We were flicking lures in the area in the hope of catching another, when I felt a light touch on the line. Slightly confused when it continued to slightly tug at the barra lure, I reeled in to find a bream had tried a suicidal feat by trying to hit a lure that was actually bigger than it!<\/p>\n

An enjoyable morning of fishing!<\/p>\n

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With the weather starting to warm up, the barra have begun to come out again. Over the past few weeks, we’ve managed to land no fewer than 7 barra, but alas, none have been size! Tim and I got up early this morning to take the boat up to the gorge, launching at 5am. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[15,16],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-kids","tag-fishing","tag-fitzroy-crossing","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8sUAc-3t","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":348,"url":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/barra-galore\/","url_meta":{"origin":215,"position":0},"title":"Barra Galore!","author":"trevor","date":"April 26, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Tim and I decided we needed to get a fish in before the school holidays finished - and it was worth it (for me anyway)!\u00a0 Casting a beady eye on the no less than 11 boat trailers at the gorge carpark, we launched around midday and were off.\u00a0 We decided\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "The Kids"","block_context":{"text":"The Kids","link":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/category\/the-kids\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/fish261.jpg?fit=338%2C450&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":24,"url":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/my-first-barra\/","url_meta":{"origin":215,"position":1},"title":"My first barra","author":"trevor","date":"October 3, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"My first ever barra came after three months of trying... many, many hours of sitting down by the river waiting for the big hit. 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