Thursday, June 19, 2014

Top End Barra Series round 3

Well, after round two's donuts I had dropped to 32nd in overall series with James placing 43rd so we were looking forward to this round to hopefully move back up in the rankings.
However with strong winds and neap tides the fish once again proved to hard to find and so after two days of trolling, casting and many lure changes I ended up with one 55cm and one 34cm (non scoring) and James with a 57cm, we also both dropped 1 other scoring fish each.

James 57cm

Public boat ramp

one of the local residents

 
 Luckily, we were not the only ones having a hard time as the following stats show.
The 89 anglers competing in this round caught 50 fish, 2 over a metre, 9 in the 60cm range and 39 between 50-59cm.
So despite only scoring 1 fish each, James and I managed to climb the overall scoreboard, with myself going to 20th and James to 25th.

Next round is Darwin Harbour on the last weekend in August so that gives me a couple of months to check out where we will be fishing that round, starting with a kids day on the 22nd June.

Until next time, tight lines all.