{"id":348,"date":"2008-04-26T18:29:40","date_gmt":"2008-04-26T10:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/wp\/?p=348"},"modified":"2014-01-11T06:58:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T22:58:24","slug":"barra-galore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/barra-galore\/","title":{"rendered":"Barra Galore!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hinchy.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/fish261.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" \/>Tim and I decided we needed to get a fish in before the school holidays finished &#8211; 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 to go for a troll through the Graveyard before heading further up river for a bit of a flick.<\/p>\n<p>We quickly realised why there were so many boats in, as we passed camp after camp of tourists up the river &#8211; it resembled Moore River (and that is not a good thing).\u00a0 Some campsites had four or five tents, full barbecue and two to three families.\u00a0 We grumbled along, hoping they weren&#8217;t taking all our fish.<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, though, within 10 minutes of trolling through the Graveyard, I was on, and after a good fight, pulled in a respectable 58cm beauty.\u00a0 We quickly bled it, and into the esky for dinner tonight.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hinchy.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/fish262.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" \/>After another 10 minutes of trolling, we took off further up river, catching nothing for the next 3 hours.\u00a0 Time for home (and a return troll through the Graveyard ).\u00a0 Bang!\u00a0 Another 10 minutes into trolling, and I was on again!\u00a0 Another good fight, and another barra at 60cm.\u00a0 We didn&#8217;t want to be greedy, so this one was returned to the water.<\/p>\n<p>I was beginning to feel (slightly) bad for Tim &#8211; I&#8217;ve been out six times fishing this year for 4 barra.\u00a0 He&#8217;s been out eight times for no barra.\u00a0 We kept trolling, when suddenly&#8230;bang!\u00a0 Tim was on.\u00a0 He played it well for a few minutes, just as a &#8220;pleasurecraft&#8221; came past loaded with kiddies and a set of parents.\u00a0 They stopped nearby, screaming in delight as they watched Tim play the fish.\u00a0 It then did a wonderful tailskip, much to their delight, at which point it snapped through Tim&#8217;s line, much to his disgust.\u00a0 With this, we left, most of us happy in the boat, with some still a little upset.\u00a0 Better luck next time, Timmy!\u00a0<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hinchy.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/fish263.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim and I decided we needed to get a fish in before the school holidays finished &#8211; 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 to go for a troll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[15,16,21],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-kids","tag-fishing","tag-fitzroy-crossing","tag-geikie-gorge","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/fish261.jpg?fit=338%2C450&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8sUAc-5C","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1573,"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions\/1573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}