fisch
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well after a restless night not that different to a young kid on christmas eve thursday morning finally arrived and we were in the car heading up to the atherton tableland for a barra fish. We met up with a mate ian and after a lilttle chat we were in the boat and heading off to the first point of the morning. We decided to target shallow weedy points early in the hope that the barra would be up there feeding in the warmer water. I decided to tie on a 150mm (6 inch) walk the dog style lure and about 30 casts into the first spot it happened! it sounded like someone dropping a brick into the water from a second story building and i came up hard on a solid fish and instantly the 20lb line started spewing off the little baitcaster unfortunately my excited yells were short lived as the fish won its freedom after a few jumps. (WHAT A WAY TO GET THE BLOOD PUMPING IN THE MORNING) the next 2 hours were really quiet untill ian noticed a little bit of bait moving on the surface not far from where we were so we made our way to it and 2nd cast my deep diving hardbody lure was met with a bone shattering hit that left me shaking but it never came up hard. It was only another 5 casts or so later and i finally came up hard to a fish not a monster by any measure but it was good to get one in the boat after a tuff morning. One last change for the morning had us fishing a very shallow bay we flogged the water for at least a hour with hard bodies and i was starting to get bored so just for fun i decided to start casting round the walk the dog style popper again when both ian and i noticed a fish come up and check it out but not strike at it. The very next cast half way back to the boat i gave the lure a long pause and sure enough it was hit hard but these fish are terrible at eating a surface lure and for every 5 or so hits u get u might get a hook up but believe me though it is so worth it to watch these fish smash the popper off the surface. the same shallow bay ended up feilding 4 hits in total but no hook ups all up it was a great morning and i cant wait to get back up there soon and chace one of the big ones!