{"id":351,"date":"2008-05-04T09:11:25","date_gmt":"2008-05-04T01:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/wp\/?p=351"},"modified":"2014-01-11T06:57:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T22:57:52","slug":"barra-on-a-kayak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/barra-on-a-kayak\/","title":{"rendered":"Barra on a Kayak"},"content":{"rendered":"![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hinchy.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/kayakbarra1.jpg?w=676&ssl=1\")
Tim and I tackled Donkey Crossing yesterday on the quest of catching a barra on a kayak. And we were successful! Three altogether, with Tim finally breaking his duck and landing two, along with my one. Mine was pretty small, around 40cm, with Tim’s first around the same size. It was probably good that they were this small – we were fishing different sides of the river, and landed them within five minutes of each other. I had my landing net and Tim had his Fish Grapple. Because mine was small, it wasn’t too difficult to play the fish close enough to the kayak and net it. Tim’s second one was more interesting.<\/p>\n
I was about 50 metres away when he hooked up, and it was dragging his kayak straight into the snag. I began powering over, and by the time I got there, Tim had played it around most of the snags (or the fish had played his kayak through the snags anyway!).<\/p>\n
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It came out of the water, and looked a good size. I tried to get as close as I could to the fish in my kayak, and after three attempts, managed to net it. Great size! At 68cm it was an absolute rush for both of us. After a quick photo, Tim released it back to the snag to fight another day. One thing we realised though – it will be pretty hard to land one of these things alone! We may have to hunt in packs from now on.<\/p>\n
By the way, it’s now 5 barra from 7 fishing trips this year, and the competition is starting to heat up, with Tim on 2. It’s a shame we will probably only get a couple more weeks of fishing before it gets too cold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tim and I tackled Donkey Crossing yesterday on the quest of catching a barra on a kayak. And we were successful! Three altogether, with Tim finally breaking his duck and landing two, along with my one. Mine was pretty small, around 40cm, with Tim’s first around the same size. It was probably good that they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349,"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":[15,16,116],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-kids","tag-fishing","tag-fitzroy-crossing","tag-kayaking","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8sUAc-5F","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":348,"url":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/barra-galore\/","url_meta":{"origin":351,"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":270,"url":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/269\/","url_meta":{"origin":351,"position":1},"title":"Anna Branch Catch","author":"trevor","date":"March 15, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "The Kids"","block_context":{"text":"The Kids","link":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/category\/the-kids\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":418,"url":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/trip-to-pigeon-creek\/","url_meta":{"origin":351,"position":2},"title":"Trip to Pigeon Creek","author":"trevor","date":"November 10, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Tim and I took the weekend and journeyed up with a canoe to Pigeon Creek - about a 15-20km hike upstream of the Gorge. 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