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The author with a 91cm barramundi caught earlier in the year.
Hot action on Cape York
The author and his nephew Axel with a couple of nice CapeYork barramundi from last year’s annual trip.
Elliot Falls,Twin Falls and Fruitbat Falls – three rea- sons to put CapeYork on your bucket list for 2021.
* from P68 close family.
along deep banks, cast- ing hard-bodies around rock bars, feeder creeks and drains, jigging soft plastics and vibes around deeper snags and holes, and live bait- ing all of the above when fishing seemed a little slow have prov- en effective methods for bagging nice barra around the Cape over the years.
water temperature.
The river can fish well during the outgoing tide because fish are forced out of the mangroves
Prior to the barramun- di closed season, fish- ing will fire up as barra become more active in warm water.
and into deeper holes. The opposite can be said for rocky head- lands and beaches, which I find fish better
Last year we managed several great sessions catching and releasing barramundi on an as- sortment of lures.
with an incoming tide. We’ve had some great barra sessions along the beach, which is an area often overlooked by
We use a range of techniques to target these fish.
Each year fishes a lit- tle different to the pre- vious, and the two big- gest factors to impact barra fishing in these parts are tidal run and
travelling anglers.
The timing for this
Location and what stage the tide is at will dictate the techniques I use.
type of fishing is im- portant.
Trolling hard-bodies
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Twin Falls.
Fruitbat Falls.