{"id":418,"date":"2008-11-10T07:29:10","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T23:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/wp\/?p=418"},"modified":"2014-01-12T20:05:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T12:05:57","slug":"trip-to-pigeon-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/trip-to-pigeon-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"Trip to Pigeon Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hinchy.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dscn2811.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" \/> Tim and I took the weekend and journeyed up with a canoe to Pigeon Creek &#8211; about a 15-20km hike upstream of the Gorge. Very clearly not many people venture up this way because the barra were plentiful and the barra were hungry! I went from 11 barra for the year to 20! I managed 9 in two days and Tim finished with 5 &#8211; pretty good, considering we caught them all from a canoe.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hinchy.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dscn0003.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of the 14 we caught, only four were undersize &#8211; my biggest were 89cm and 83cm, and Tim&#8217;s 76cm &#8211; although with nearly the last cast of the trip Tim hooked and lost a monster &#8211; maybe 90-100cm! It smashed the lure so hard, it took a treble hook off and completely bent the eyelet of a second treble.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hinchy.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dscn0003_2.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Highlight of the trip was watching a barra sit literally next to the boat as it eyed Tim&#8217;s floating, stationary lure for what seemed an eternity&#8230; before it absolutely smashed it took off. At 68cm, it was a fair sight. We enjoyed the trip!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hinchy.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dscn0001_4.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hinchy.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dscn0001_2.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hinchy.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dscn2836.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hinchy.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dscn2830.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hinchy.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dscn2822.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hinchy.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dscn2833.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim and I took the weekend and journeyed up with a canoe to Pigeon Creek &#8211; about a 15-20km hike upstream of the Gorge. Very clearly not many people venture up this way because the barra were plentiful and the barra were hungry! I went from 11 barra for the year to 20! I managed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407,"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":[261,7,263],"tags":[15,16],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-the-kids","category-westaustralia","tag-fishing","tag-fitzroy-crossing","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dscn0003.jpg?fit=450%2C559&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8sUAc-6K","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","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=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1569,"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/1569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}