Being lucky enough to get a permit I had to take the opportunity to fish for barra in victoria. Now I have never caught a barra in my life never fished for them. I sought advice from the master barra mick so me and tuna tube dropped around to his place drinking a couple of lights round his pool he took the time to convey his knowledge so much so he lent me rods and some lures my smallest baitcaster reel is a charter special.
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Lures to troll lures to cast. with specific instructions but most of all he gave me a map
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So on tuesday I picked tuna tube up and we made our way to Hazelwood we arrived at the lake around 1230 and it was 35 degrees. The plan launch the boat then tuna would drive to the caravan Park and I would meet him there. The first problem the ramp was to shallow and my trailer has bunks and I couldn't get the leg deep enough to back the boat off to the right of the boat ramp was a sandy beach and the water looked deeper good old tube braved the 29 degree water to check the depth, he backed the boat down the grass verge onto the sand and into the water and the boat came off the trailer no worries.
I drove the boat up to the caravan park and pulled up on the sandy beach we set up camp next to a table and bbq and sat back with a couple of cold ones it had been sweltering all day
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it was very calm and warm.
We woke the next day it was cold and windy not what we wanted we had breakfast and hit the water we trolled and trolled changed lures and trolled some more my 650 haines is not the best boat to do Hazelwood in the deepest point was 10mt but there was lots of sudden shallow spots the water was a murky brown and no chance of seeing the bottom.
We saw plenty of good marks on the sounder but in the two days we were there no one caught one,the water temp was 28 deg at the coldest point and 33 degrees near where poacher paul caught the barra the fisheries were hiding in some trees preventing anyone venturing past the no boating bouys. The wind chopped up the water and at the bottom of the lake near the power station was like a washing machine.
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We kept trolling and casting to no avail by 3 we had had enough defeated we headed back to the camp site I said to tuna tube I can't go home without catching a fish so off the back of the boat a number 10 long shanked hook a bit of bread and I must have caught 50 tilapia
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feeling better we put the boat on the trailer high speed lift the leg then winch the rest of the way. Tied the boat down and we were home by 730 pm a great few days but sadly no fish a big thanks to barra mick I will have to go to the nt now.
