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…since my last size barra!\u00a0 It only just fell inside the maximum allowed as well at 79cm.\u00a0 It took 20 minutes to land, with a team effort required from Troy and myself – after it jumped, it took off straight into a huge root system and lodged itself in there.\u00a0 Drifting over, we could see the barra in the water it the root system.\u00a0 Eventually Troy dropped a 100 pound handline with a sinker attached straight onto it and it took off again into open water.\u00a0 An interesting catch!<\/p>\n

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…since my last size barra!\u00a0 It only just fell inside the maximum allowed as well at 79cm.\u00a0 It took 20 minutes to land, with a team effort required from Troy and myself – after it jumped, it took off straight into a huge root system and lodged itself in there.\u00a0 Drifting over, we could see […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-235","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-3N","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":127,"url":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/another-barra\/","url_meta":{"origin":235,"position":0},"title":"Another Barra","author":"trevor","date":"May 28, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"After a couple of weeks of frustrating fishing (three undersize barra in a row!!!), we took a longer trek upstream at the gorge, up to a spot that we were later told was \"just past the first hole\", but \"not quite the second hole\". 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