Barra Bashing

Wombat 280 · Guru

Barra Bashing

Road Ranger · Senior Member

Yep ......they sure would make good croc bait.
Why do they call ya Wombat? Giggle Giggle.
Tell all our international visitors. Har Har.

drongo & wendy · Senior Member

strewth and i call my misses "Wendy wombat" 2 out of 3 aint bad

Road Ranger · Senior Member

Well.................I'm no goin near that one Demon.

dave06 · Guru

oh well!! there go the big breeding females for next year!! another 5 years before the next generation get old enough to change sex,

wouldnt that be great, to change sex, hell I'd be the biggest floozy this side of the black stump, no-one would be safe!!

Wombat 280 · Guru

It became my call sign years back, There were 5 of us operating independently and each had to select a unique call sign so we could positively ID each other and as I had the gear on board to make big holes in anything my call sign became wombat.

There was skippy . king brown . goanna and dingo, sadly I'm the only one left .

It may also have had something to do with my days as a single airmen. Single troops always got posted to the worlds hell holes first, so I got around a fair bit in my career , you can put the other bits together . Caught on early "first in gets the pick of the camels".

Cruising Granny · Guru

Oh dear, dear Dave, be careful what you wish for.
Ask a seahorse what it's like to bear the young.
You blokes have all the fun getting them in there, but you try getting them out again.
I think there'll be enough barra to go around. Nothing better than a feed of wild, estuary barra. The best feed I've had ever was at the little cafe on the jetty at Cooktown a couple of months ago. Grilled to perfection and not mutilated by batter or anything but a nice salad and good chips. Yum!
Cheers Granny

mike and Judy · Guru

Fish of yesterday !!
Had a feed of one Flounder at the Black Rock hotel in the 60s that has not been equalled yet
Without a word of a lie it was as long as my forearm, 18 inches, I swear to god
Went fishing for them with the battery on an innertube, light, and spear, in the shallows for months after that, but never that big again

drongo & wendy · Senior Member

aint it funny how something stays as the best u have had. was staying at Curtain Springs [80 odd ks from the rock] and i had never tried barra, wellllll talk about the best barra never gone close since loved eating under a bark type roof amongst the cattle dogs and flies and the fun in the bar after dark was just the best was way better than staying at the rock resort, a bit of true aussie style

mike and Judy · Guru

mayby for the feed, but at 2 bucks for a shower it was not a good place in my book, and that bloody emu walked into the van if you let it
Booked for 3 and only stayed for 2, good halfway point tween the rock and kings canyon

Road Ranger · Senior Member

Wombat 280 wrote:

It became my call sign years back, There were 5 of us operating independently and each had to select a unique call sign so we could positively ID each other and as I had the gear on board to make big holes in anything my call sign became wombat.

There was skippy . king brown . goanna and dingo, sadly I'm the only one left .

It may also have had something to do with my days as a single airmen. Single troops always got posted to the worlds hell holes first, so I got around a fair bit in my career , you can put the other bits together . Caught on early "first in gets the pick of the camels".
Jeez, hope you picked a good lookin one, they say camels are called Ships of the desert because there full of arab seamen.

-- Edited by Road Ranger at 09:02, 2009-03-11

xina · Guru

I'm gonna get stomped on for this, but I don't think Barra is as good as every-one else seems to think . I think most people have been brainwashed about Barra. Reef fish are very good eating, and there's nothing wrong with Sea Mullet. I don't mind Barracuda either. [ It holds together well when cooked.]
However, for flavour, the very best in my opinion, is Maori Wrasse. Unfortunately, these days, it is on the prohibited list.
Cheers,
xina.

JRH · Guru

G'day,

With the sole exception of anchovies there is not a seafood I don't like, in my opinion they are all damned good.

John

Wombat 280 · Guru

xina wrote:

I'm gonna get stomped on for this, but I don't think Barra is as good as every-one else seems to think . I think most people have been brainwashed about Barra. Reef fish are very good eating, and there's nothing wrong with Sea Mullet. I don't mind Barracuda either. [ It holds together well when cooked.]
However, for flavour, the very best in my opinion, is Maori Wrasse. Unfortunately, these days, it is on the prohibited list.
Cheers,
xina.

Having caught a lot of barra I have to agree there are better table fish around. I think the hype comes from the rough sought of country you needed to go into a few years back but with sealed roads into many barra spots that claim now is a little hard to justify . During the wet season you can catch the buggers in the storm drains. My kids were raised in the NT and barra fishing was an every week end sport ,today's fisho's brag about their barra fishing exploits until they see the pic in the kids album .

Cruising Granny · Guru

The challenge to catching barra is getting them in the boat or in the bag. They're tricky, but a lot of fun to catch. That big leap and then down under a snag before you know you've got 'em. Not freshwater or farm barra, only estuarine barra, from sea for me.
Flathead is no disgrace. Great feed on the bbq. The biggest I've seen were way past the length of a fish bin, huge, caught at Clare Bay on the west coast of SA. I was the driver of the bus for a school camp, and we caught 5 like that. Fed the whole mob.
Entre' was stumpy tail lizard nunga style. We caught them on the road on the way back from Fowlers Bay. Kids running everywhere picking them up and let them all run loose around the bus floor. Interesting trip. Food for thought in more ways than one.
Another interesting tale or is it tail? Cheers Granny