FISH & BOAT, April 2019- P49 Fishing From previous page breathe easy for the rest of the year. There’s more ways to There were plenty of other Weipa locals with their fish to remember and certainly relieved the pressureinteresting anecdotes for the weekend. Keen sport andstart the season with associated with my previous status of 2109 barra vir-gamefisher, Andrea Kennedy, combined a bit of lucka bang than scoring a ginity. Tom opened his 2019 score sheet shortly after,with her excellent fishing skill to land one of the morenice barra! Andrea with then quickly added another couple. Later, he raised a unusual catches of the season start. She was soaking a good fish that smashed his Bomber but managed to live bait at the mouth of the Embley River on 3-kiloher lovely Embley River miss the hooks. His lure was quickly back in the same tackle, hoping to find a barra sitting along the rockSpaniard taken on light spot, but the barra couldn’t be tempted again. At hisledges, when her bait was grabbed by an express train.gear and a live bait. prompting, I worked the Hijacker through the snagThey quickly chased the fish before the small spin and received a response on cast five. The Leads scored reel was spooled and, after a 20-minute fight, wereThis lady can fish!! another lovely fish. amazed to find a nice Spanish mackerel ready for The following day, Tom and I were joined by histhe net. Somehow, the macko’s teeth had avoided the mate Damian, but the fishing was pretty slow. The 40-pound monofilament leader that was tied to the tide did not seem to run quite as strongly as predicted,hook. Andrea didn’t land a barra, but you still couldn’t maybe due to the backed off of the monsoon allow-get the smile of her face at the end of the day. ing the lump of Gulf water it had pushed to the westWhat was the big mack doing at the mouth of a river Queensland coast to run back towards the NT. Hitsrunning lots of fresh water? 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