P30 - FISH & BOAT, April 2019 Fishin’ With The Captain Where’s my Barra? are lucky enough to have our very If we are talking about a big tre- and depth. For instance, I try to own Barra Fun park where people ble used for big sports fish like gi-keep all my 100mm – 120mm lures can fish for barramundi varying in ant trevally and other pelagic species,that dive to roughly 3 foot together sizes all year round and with rela- then I would definitely spend some and my 90mm deeper divers togeth- Want to pick the Captain’s brains, tive ease. This place has the works time sharpening hooks and making er. This way I can pull out a lure box or just want to settle a bet betweenwith shaded BBQ areas, licensed bar sure they are in top notch condition.that suits the area of fishing I intend and plenty of other activities which A small axe stone can be used to to do. If I am fishing shallow drains Have you seen this a few mates? Why not send in your include paddleboards, tube rides, ba-sharpen these then a coating of oil, with hard bodies well, then all my fish in 2019? Because questions to Captain Jim and have nana boat rides plus a heap more. I and you are good to go. shallow lures are in one box ranging the Captain hasn’t!!! the answers published in the next would suggest this would be a great Smaller hooks I would generally from 50mm to say 120mm. edition of Fish and Boat magazine? way to spend a couple hours and put just replace as needed as I don’t thinkWhen it comes to storing soft plas-the only consistent report is that of Send in your email to: editorial@ your in-laws onto some fish and get I could be stuffed fooling around tics, this is where you have to be a lit-big logs and other debris floating yourself into the good books. with these. tle more careful as some plastics canjust below the surface so please, if fishandboat.com.au and use the Dear Captain, I’ve been fishing Captain, I hear a lot about leader have a chemical reaction with other you are travelling out wide, just be words “Captain Jim” in the subject for a while now and notice that material for lure fishing. Some lures, even without touching. If pos-mindful of this so I would suggest line so we can send them onto the some of my hooks aren’t as sharp people say to use ‘hard’ mono, sible, I tend to keep the softies in to limit travelling at night. When man himself. as they used to be. Is there a way toand some say to use fluorocarbon. their original packaging as to avoid you do stumble across these float- sharpen them, or should I just buy What are the benefits of each of the dreaded melted ball of plastics ing paradises, it always pays to have Hey Captain, I live in Townsville, new ones? these, and is there really a ‘better’you sometimes find when you want a small plastic rigged at the ready as and my in-laws are coming up for The ongoing saga of terminal tack- one to use? to pull out your favourite lure. the elusive triple tail (jumping cod) Easter. They don’t fish, but they le maintenance. Our poor pieces Fluorocarbon is generally more of can often be using this as shelter. want to catch a Barra. Can you rec- of terminal tackle always seem to a “hard” leader which makes it great After the Flood My tip – sneak up to the debris until ommend a place I can take them be forgotten about in my opinion. for species with teeth and heavily Well, it seems I have done some- you are just in casting distance and fishing and how I can try to keep in Items such as split rings, hooks, braidrasped mouths as it is very abrasionthing to upset the weather gods be- fire a few long casts with a lightly the “good books”? scissors, the list goes on, these all resistant.While monofilament is cause at the moment any time I have weighted jig head. You just never They want to catch a barra, but they play pivotal roles in landing big fishnot as hard as fluoro, it does allow ahad to go fishing, the weather has know your luck when it comes to don’t like fishing? Well, that makessuccessfully, and it’s not until one ofbit more stretch which can be good been less than perfect, in fact, it hasthese mythical creatures and oh, by it hard to achieve I guess. I would them fails, that we realise how im- in certain situations. been down right dismal. I’m flat out the way they can grow to well over suggest that if the In-laws are keen portant it is to keep the maintenance Fluorocarbon lines tend to sink catching a break in the weather let 80cm!!! Yagotta love that! to catch a fish but don’t like the sun,up to these items. When it comes tomore rapidly so be aware if you are alone a damn fish! Its not to say that mosquitos and the stinky bait, then Isharpening hooks, I generally weigh planning on fishing surface lures asthe fishing around town has been would recommend heading to a fish up the costs of replacement versus this may hinder the action of the bad either, as I keep being reminded farm or park. Here in Townsville, we the cost of maintenance. lure slightly. My advice is that thereby mates. is not one type of leader that suits With the floodwaters gone, and Fluorocarbon leaders are all types of fishing so, with that inlives slowly getting back on track, great for fish with raspy mind, I suggest changing leaders as those that have put in the effort mouths and sharp teeth. you change targets and fishing tech-have been rewarded with some good niques for the best resuts.l numbers of barra at the local weirs. A well-kept lure box is the Hey Jim, how do you go about Live bait seeming to be the most secret to not losing your lure storage? Do you put all the oneproductive with some bigger fish Young Ryley fooled this S@#t sometimes. It also colour together or do you go by the succumbing to well presented big big barra with a well- makes perfect sense to depth of the lure? What’s the best baits. presented live bait. way? from Jason Cottell Travelling out wide, the reports organise. I personally sort my lures by lengthhave been hit and miss, I guess with RAMPING UP Upgrading boat ramp facilities in North Queensland $890,000 grant to $1.35m more Molongle Creek to upgrade boat ramps FEDERAL Member for Dawson, George Christensen today announced a Morrison Government grant of just under $890,000 Victor Creek to continue works including upgrading the Molongle Creek boat channel to provide all-tide access, and constructing a new two- Extend car park and install storey multipurpose complex, which incorporates a manager’s lighting & CCTV residence, shop, office, café, rescue vessel, water taxi storage and Murray Creek a mechanics workshop. Upgrade of car park and install lighting & CCTV Halliday Bay Sealing adjacent picnic area & connecting footway from picnic area to boat launching area and install lighting& CCTV Campwin Beach Car park construction, ramp replacement and install lighting &CCTV Bucasia Esplanade Install lighting & CCTV Carpet Snake Point Install lighting & CCTV Grasstree Beach Install lighting & CCTV Apsley Way Install lighting & CCTV George Christensen MP 21/21 Milton Street Federal Member for Dawson Phone: 07 4944 0662 Mackay QLD 4740 www.GeorgeChristensen.com George.Christensen.MP@aph.gov.au Authorised by George Christensen MP, Liberal National Party, 2/21 Milton Street, Mackay QLD 4740