ABT Awoonga Barra Events

How Good is Barra Fishing!!??!!! Awesome I Reckon!!! And to spend five days with a bunch of Barra Addicts makes it even more fun!


I managed to get away to fish the two Awoonga Barra events on the ABT Barra Tour, and it was a great trip. The fishing was very tough, but fishing with Greg Angel and sharing a Cabin with Greg, Jason Medcalf, Nigel Webster, plus Tim Carter and Dave Hodge from Halco certainly made the trip a lot of fun.

All the details and results of the tour are on australianbarramundi.com.au. You will see from the results that there weren't a heap of fish caught at Awoonga, but if you worked at it they were there. There are always a heap of hard luck stories with barra, conversion rates from bites to fish landed are always fairly poor because they are such tough and dirty fighters that use every trick in the book to evade capture.

Between Greg and I we only boated five fish for the trip and only two of these during competition hours - so we didn't trouble the scorers. Although we could well have made a podium finish if we had converted more bites in the 16hr session. We had seven bites, three hook ups and only one landed. Two of the fish threw hooks very close to the boat.

All our fish were caught on 6" Berkley Hollow Bellys rigged on the Nitro Backbone jigs. These lures and jigs accounted for quite a few fish over the tour for many anglers.









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The ABT Barra Tour has established itself as having the best impoundment barra events with plenty of big boats and big names participating.

But you didn't need a big boat to get good results as the Taylor boys and Karl Rembacher in Team Shitty Tinny proved by racking up good results in some of the smallest boats in the field.

The Awoonga Barra Events were run by Chris and Marcel who did a great job.

It was a great trip and I'm looking forward to next years events.

Cheers,

Matt