BYNOE EASTER 2015 WEEK TWO AND THREE

Finally back home after three weeks away in the bush.  We were in a place which was down near a small creek, hemmed in by trees and in a low area that got little or no wind, AND no Air conditioning!!!

The screens kept most of the mozzies out, but also any slight breeze that may have lost its way down there.    It reminded us of the days when we lived out west in NSW and in Lismore before coming to Darwin and having air conditioning in every room.  It got so humid and hot down there, it seemed hard to breath, as Roggie said, "...thank goodness for cold beer".

We survived, but I did think of sleeping in the car one night with the motor and air conditioning running.  Not complaining really we have just gotten too soft!

The fishing was interesting...after the first wonderful week we expected the same, but it did change with the tides of course.  We didn't fish every day because it got windy, but the water cleared up and it was wonderful to see so many barra and salmon, if only they would take a fly.  We cast and cast but they turned away, changed flies, they still swam around in circles and would not take a fly.   There were schools of three to six barra all over the place around the 60cm mark, and bigger single fish out off the edges that would just swim under the boat and ignore us.

Rock bar fingermark

On the rock bars you could still catch a fish almost every cast...the usual suspects, queenies, trevors and snapper.  But on the flats they ignored us.  We ran into others from the mob down there who were fishing dark side and had the same story.  The barra and salmon were ignoring even their lures and soft plastics.   The 'Show Ponies". Wayne and Crusty managed to coax a few onto the fly with Waynes special Sunrise to Sunset fly and Crusties hybrid of Roggies mullet fly and Waynes fly.

Wayne did offer us some of his flies but after Roggies reply I don't think he will again!!!.

Waynes Sunrise to Sunset Fly..

Catches both barra and.....

.........Salmon

We did venture into the fresh Finniss as well, along the banks on a 9 metre deep hole, there were a zillion small barra, with the same amount of tarpon and even more long toms.  The small barra sounded like machine guns going off as they boofed everything along the edge.   They didn't come out into the deeper water though while we were there.  That was because the bigger barra were laying in the snags waiting for them.  

It was hard to get casts in under the overhanging trees, but when you did you got a small barra like this one....

This is one of the zillion or so barra that were going crazy! DNA fly.

If you fished out from the bank there was a zillion of these too!! they loved the EP fibre.

The river is lousy with snags, and I think the reason the smaller barra were along the edges is that when we towed them out into the deeper water, the bigger fish, came up under them, but they would not take them.  Tried to get a photo of a couple under one of the little fish but I think it failed.

Tried to get a photo of the two big fellows below this little one but can't make them out.

What a beautiful place. Very hot and humid though, fogged up your sunnies.