{"id":270,"date":"2008-03-15T06:58:39","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T22:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/wp\/?p=269"},"modified":"2011-07-15T11:11:20","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T11:11:20","slug":"269","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/269\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Branch Catch"},"content":{"rendered":"

I took Pommy Paul out last night to catch some cherabin, and it turned into a great night’s fishing.\u00a0 We got to Anna Branch<\/a> at around 5pm with a kayak and pottered around, flicking a few lures and just generally waiting until dusk until the cherabin came on.\u00a0 At around 7pm, I landed about 10 reasonable sized cherabin, destined for the fishtank along with a 25cm catfish I’d caught on a spangled perch live bait\u00a0 at 6:00.\u00a0 Naturally, 9 cherabin went into the bucket and one onto a 4\/0 hook and into the water.\u00a0 Within 5 minutes, the line was twitching and within 10 minutes I had landed a very nice 65cm barra!<\/p>\n

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I was ecstatic as it was my first barra for the year (with really very little effort), and Paul – who comes from the Isle of Man and loves his salmon fishing – was looking very excited and much more interested in catching a barra than catching a cherabin.\u00a0 We fished out another cherabin from the bucket, and I rigged up his rod – which was pretty light-on with 8kg mono line – with some 80kg leader and another 4\/0 hook.\u00a0 Out it went… and within 10 minutes Paul was on as well!\u00a0 He played it beautifully, with the drag a little loose because of the line weight.\u00a0 It put on a great show, jumping three times trying to shake the hook before Paul bought it alongside the bank and I scooped it into the net (I’m not silly – we may have been cherabin hunting, but the landing net goes everywhere!).\u00a0\u00a0 Amazingly, we couldn’t even brag about who caught the biggest fish, because Paul’s measured exactly the same – 65cm!\u00a0 So there we go – two barra caught on live bait from the same spot within 20 minutes of each other.\u00a0 Paul can send photos to his family back home and is now officially part of the Barra Club!<\/p>\n

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I took Pommy Paul out last night to catch some cherabin, and it turned into a great night’s fishing.\u00a0 We got to Anna Branch at around 5pm with a kayak and pottered around, flicking a few lures and just generally waiting until dusk until the cherabin came on.\u00a0 At around 7pm, I landed about 10 […]<\/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-270","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\/s8sUAc-269","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":282,"url":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/another-cherabin-another-barra\/","url_meta":{"origin":270,"position":0},"title":"Another cherabin, another Barra","author":"trevor","date":"March 31, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Although I'm still hunting for my sawfish piccie, I thought I'd better post another barra pic from the Easter weekend. 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