Today is onshore fishing, we travelled approx 10kms out the road to a river that we had fished when we lived in Kununarra, the last time we were there I gave a handline with a live bait on it to an aboriginal family, when we turned and walked away from them we hadn't gone 20 metres and they hooked a barramundi approx 100cm, we are hoping for a little of that luck today.
I thought when we had left El Questro the rock hopping was done with for a while, no luck, these are worse plenty of loose unstable ones.
When we got to the place where we were sure there would be a barramundi, I started trying to catch live bait while Merv tried different types of lures.
I did catch two, one was really a bit big, I put the smallest one on and in no time it was taken under a rock, I had to break it off, start again.
On with the bigger one, I thought it would have to be a big fish that takes this one, so I sit and wait.
About an hour later it was taken, I was shouting to Merv for help to land it, he was up stream and couldn't hear, so it was hope for the best, when I got it in it was a really big silver cobbler, he had the fish in his mouth and wasn't going to let it go. Merv turned up as I was about to take it off the hook, the cobbler made us laugh, it had been holding the fish and even as we were trying to get the line it was still trying to swallow the bait
That was a keeper, but not a barramundi, so even though the bait was dead I thought I would give it a try, no luck but it was a beautiful day on the river.
Merv had no luck with the lures.
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