Barramundi #1140 Barracuda #17 Cold water

It has been windy in Darwin.
However, the waves are relatively fewer than those in the wet season.
The dry season has by far the largest number of the day when I can go fishing.
I went fishing at Channel Island on Saturday of May 19.
The seawater was cold and murky.
The sea surface was slightly wavy.
The wind was against me.
I needed a heavier lure.
I cast it at a rock hidden by murky water.
I had a strong fish bite while I was twitching my lure.
For a moment, I thought I hooked a barramundi.
As I caught some barracuda before, I recognized him at once.

65cm Barracuda

Lucky Craft Pointer 100SP

I have had a small sized barracuda broiled with salt before.
It was a pretty good dish.
I was afraid of getting food poisoning this time.
So I didn't keep this barracuda.

I went fishing at Mindil Beach before the market on Sunday.
The seawater was very clear and cold.
Barramundi have not come back to the shallow water from the deeper water yet.    They will be accustomed to a cold water soon.

I went fishing at Myilly Point rocks after work on Monday of May 21.
I used a very nice Polish hard body lure.
It was a 7cm small sized shallow diver.
The seawater was very clear.
A small barramundi took this small Polish hard body lure.
Barramundi took it even in the time when I was winding very slowly.

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Barramundi #1099-1102 Cheers to Million Dollar Fish Season 3

There has been a lot of rain recently.
A good rainy season showers benefits upon us.
It will bring about a very fishing productive dry season.
Recently, a friend of mine caught some nice sized barramundi near Cullen Bay.
However, an area of water that is very shallow is not very fishing productive now.
Nevertheless, I could catch some barramundi on lures by land based in my usual fishing locations.
But, those sizes were very small.

November 13 / Barramundi #1099 / Squidgies Fish 70mm Lime Lighting / Mindil Beach

November 15 / Barramundi #1100 / Squidgies Fish 70mm Lime Lighting / Mindil Beach

November 18 / Barramundi #1101 / HRT Lures Mad Minnow 70mm Fire Engine / East Point

November 19 / Barramundi #1102 / Squidgies Fish 80mm Drop Bear / Fannie Bay

From, these results, it is inferred that nice sized barramundi possibly are moving about in search of their baits while swimming in the slightly deeper, mid-zone instead of the very shallow area.
I want to catch one more $10,000 fish.
I normally fish barramundi on lures by land based at a water depth of 30cm - 50cm.
I should probably fish barramundi at a water depth of 1m - 1.5m during this season.
By the way, I got 24 bottles of beer as a supplementary prize on $10,000 Fish.
The doctor has ordered me to abstain from beer.
However, I love food that goes well with beer.
I made Gyoza dumplings with pork, cabbage and spring onion.
Very delicious!

Here's cheers to Million Dollar Fish Season 3!

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Barramundi #947-948 hrtlures Mad Minnow Match the hatch

The tides on May 12 as follows,

05:36am 2.55m
12:02pm 5.96m
18:50pm 3.25m

The tides were very good for my land based fishing.
Fortunately, there was no moon while I was fishing.
The water was very, very clear.
The sea surface was slightly wavy.
The productive fishing window came around 8:30pm.
It lasted one hour.

It was about this time last year.
I used the same lure at the same place at the same tide.
I think that a barramundi is mainly taking a small mullet or a small whiting in my fishing locations in this season.

Match the hatch
There are exceptions to it, however.
I'm not sure how fish see the colour under the water.
I accept this theory.

48cm barramundi #947
May 12, 2015
Land based, Darwin, NT, Australia

50cm barramundi #948

hrtlures Mad Minnow


Colour: 023 Fire Engine

Size: 70mm

Where: Shallow water 30cm -50cm

Water: Very clear Incoming

Line: Sufix 832 15LB Braid

Leader: TRIUMPH SUPER SHOCK LEADER 30LB (Very nice for the shallows)

Knot: The Slim Beauty Knot

Reel: SHIMANO STELLA 2500FE

Rod: Wilson LIVE FIBRE Sport fishing SERIES BLADE 'N' TAILS

Clip: FORCE TEN STAINLESS DUO LOCK SNAPS #2

Action: Steady retrieving

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Sunday Flat sea surface again! Barramundi #891 Rockcod #319 HRT LURES MAD MINNOW

Days with flat sea surface in the morning and night have been continuing in Darwin recently.
I can't expect to catch good sized sea barramundi at the flat sea surface on our shallows.
Moreover, a good sized sea barramundi is very cautious in the clear water in the day time.
However, it will be a non-zero possibility that a fickle good sized sea barramundi is caught under the condition of the flat (smooth) sea surface.

The result was as I had expected.

A very small barramundi #891 took HRT LURES Mad minnow.

HRT LURES Mad minnow 70mm is a very good lure.
Of course, I must check the sharpness of hooks as needed.

I sometime adjust tracking by bending the #1 nose eye in the direction the lure needs to go track straight.

I always adjust the these #2, #3 eyes straight up when I caught a good sized barramundi.
These above procedures are very important to my land based sea barramundi fishing.

By the way, I was about to land a good sized sea barramundi with a SQUIDGY PRO MONGREL at the outgoing tide on Saturday afternoon while the sea surface luckily was becoming slightly wavy but I finally lost the fish because I was too impatient.

Rockcod #319

HRT LURES MAD MINNOW

Colour: 023 fire engine

Size: 70mm

Where: Shallow water 30cm -50m

Water: Very clear Incoming

Line: SUFIX 10LB

Leader: TRIUMPH SUPER SHOCK LEADER 30LB (Very nice for the shallows)

Knot: The Slim Beauty Knot

Hook: OWNER Cultiva SD-36 Double hook #2 (Very nice for the shallows)

Reel: SHIMANO SUSTAIN 1000FG

Rod: ST.CROIX  AVID/AVS66LF2 4-8LB 1/16-1/4oz. Fast action

Clip: FORCE TEN STAINLESS DUO LOCK SNAPS #2

Action: Steady retrieving (Automatically touch and go)

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Friday night Barramundi #890 HRT LURES MAD MINNOW What a bummer! We had flat seasurface every night.

What a bummer!
The sea surface was flat again tonight!
In addition, the water was very clear.
There were too many days of the flat sea surface in this winter.

A slightly wavy sea is the best condition for catching sea barramundi on our shallows.

But there was no moonlight.
It's was a very good counter measure against the flat sea surface.

I needed a very good lure for this situation.
HRT LURES Mad minnow was!
(I'm importing some HRT LURES Mad minnows 70mm young mullet's colour from USA and some salt water double hooks from Japan.)

It becomes very important factor to choose the wright bait pattern when we fish in the very clear water.
It should be small mullets there tonight.
I was lucky!
I caught a winter sea barramundi.

A winter sea barramundi is very beautiful.
June 20, 2014
Land based, Darwin, NT, Australia

HRT LURES MAD MINNOW

Colour: 023 fire engine

Size: 70mm

Where: Shallow water 30cm -50m

Water: Very clear Incoming

Line: SUFIX 10LB

Leader: TRIUMPH SUPER SHOCK LEADER 30LB (Very nice for the shallows)

Knot: The Slim Beauty Knot

Hook: OWNER Cultiva SD-36 Double hook #2 

Reel: SHIMANO SUSTAIN 1000FG

Rod: ST.CROIX  AVID/AVS66LF2 4-8LB 1/16-1/4oz. Fast action

Clip: FORCE TEN STAINLESS DUO LOCK SNAPS #2

Action: Steady retrieving (Automatically touch and go)

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The reason why HRT LURES MAD MINNOW 70mm could catch many barramundis in winter.

I caught sea barramundi every night recently.
I used a HRT LURES Mad minnow 70mm with double hooks.
The colour is called as "Fire engine".

It's a very good shallow diving lure, indeed!
Mr. Matt West who was the champion of Barra Classic 2010 gave me this lure as a lure-test.
I think that was four years ago.

First, I understood that it was very good shallow diving lure.
But I caught many rockcods but didn't catch a barramundi on our shallows.

Using double hooks, I could catch sea barramundi every night recently.

Why can HRT LURES Mad minnow with double hooks catch sea barramundi?

"Match the bait"

I took this above picture in April.

These are very young mullets.

These young mullets looked HRT LURES Mad minnow 70mm.

Using double hooks, I could finally unlock the true potential of this lure.
The rear double hook moves so smoothly as they swim around in the seawater.
It looks like a tail fin.
The front double hook looks like pectoral fins.

I need more this above double hooks as soon as possible.

On the other hand, garfish and small longtom are also very nice and effective bait for catching sea barramundi in the winter season.

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Winter barramundi #888 HRT MAD MADMINNOW Under the very difficult condition

There was a strong wind in the daytime.
The clouds completely cleared.
The sea surface was flat and dabbled with strong moon light.
Worse, the seawater was very clear.

Good sized sea barramundis are very cautious.
Many small bait fish were jumping.
But they wouldn't come to the very shallow water.

Somehow I finally caught a small sea barramundi at the urban rocks.
I used very light tackles and so even this small sized one was strong enough for my tackles tonight.

HRT Mad minnow with double hooks did work again.

June 8, 2014 Barramundi
Land based, Darwin, NT, Australia

HRT LURES MAD MINNOW

Colour: 023 fire engine

Size: 70mm

Where: Shallow water 30cm -50m

Water: Very clear Incoming

Line: SUFIX 10LB

Leader: TRIUMPH SUPER SHOCK LEADER 30LB

Knot: The Slim Beauty Knot

Hook: OWNER Cultiva SD-36 Double hook #2 

Reel: SHIMANO SUSTAIN 1000FG

Rod: ST.CROIX  AVID/AVS66LF2 4-8LB 1/16-1/4oz. Fast action

Clip: FORCE TEN STAINLESS DUO LOCK SNAPS #2

Action: Steady retrieving (Automatically touch and go)

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53cm Winter sea barramundi #887 HRT LURES MAD MINNOW Double hooks

Even if the sea surface was flat, barramundi normally would take lures in the night.
Nevertheless, they wouldn't take lures when the state of being windless on our shallows.
Once the wind rose, they would take lures again.

It's off the subject, but I prefer the time at which the moon is at first quater when half its face is illuminated to the full moon as follows,

I originally used double hooks for my land based barramundi fishing before and caught many barramundis in those days.
And then I used treble hooks for one year.
Finally I arrived at a conclusion.
Double hooks should be much more effective for catching sea-barramundi by land based than treble hooks.

HRT LURES MAD MINNOW was recommended me by Mr. Matt West who was a champion of Barra Classic 2010.,
That was four years ago.
I have been using it since then.
I thought that it was a very good lure for the shallow waters.
I caught many rockcods but I didn't catch many sea barramundis by using it.

Using double hooks, I could find a true potential of this lure this time.

The rear double hook moves so smoothly as they swim around in the seawater.
It looked a tail fin.
The front double hook looked pectral fins.

Basically this lure swims at the slightly deeper depth range of the water to compare with the other shallow diving lures.
Using double hooks, this lure was able to produce a very effective action as a "Touch and GO" to many rocks for the barramundi fishing while swimming in the shallow water.

Unfortunately, we can't find the above double hooks in Darwin.
I must import OWNER Cultiva Stinger Double Hooks from Japan.

As a result, I caught a very solid winter sea-barramundi tonight.

53cm Urban sea-barramundi (Winter version)
June 7, 2014
Land based, Darwin, NT, Australia

It should be nicer to barramundi than using treble hook.
Less damages.

     


HRT LURESMAD MINNOW

Colour: 023 fire engine

Size: 70mm

Where: Shallow water 30cm -50m

Water: Clear Incoming

Line: SUFIX 10LB

Leader: TRIUMPH SUPER SHOCK LEADER 30LB

Knot: The Slim Beauty Knot

Hook: OWNER Cultiva SD-36 Double hook #2 

Reel: SHIMANO SUSTAIN 1000FG

Rod: ST.CROIX  AVID/AVS66LF2 4-8LB 1/16-1/4oz. Fast action

Clip: FORCE TEN STAINLESS DUO LOCK SNAPS #2

Action: Steady retrieving (Automatically touch and go)

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62cm Barramundi #884-886 HRT LURES MAD MINNOW Winter is the best season for very skilled barramundi anglers but very difficult season for beginners because of its very clear seawater.

Winter game has just started!

The seawater clarity becomes very clear.
The fish window becomes very short.

But sea barramundi itself becomes very attractive.
The body colour becomes beautiful silver-white.
The body becomes very solid and muscular.
The action becomes very aggressive.
That's winter versions of the sea barramundi on our shallows.
They are very tough proposition.
I think that super fishos and very skilled anglers love those above situations.
That is the place for them to show or try their skills.


On the contrary, beginners will be at a loss how to fish in the very clear water.

"And I suppose",
Winter should be the best season for very skilled barramundi anglers and super fishos.
On the other hand, winter should be very difficult season for beginners by land based barramundi fishing.

I caught a 62cm very aggressive urban sea-barramundi and two small barramundis tonight.
HRT lure is originally easy to snag oyster-rocks on our shallows.
Using double hooks, HRT lure became a very good shallow diving lure.
It automatically produced a very effective "Touch and GO" action in the shallow water.
In addition, the double hooks looked the fish-fins.

I used many lures with treble hooks last year.
I could compare with each other.
I'm very sure that the double hooks are much more effective for catching many barramundis than the treble hooks on our shallows.

62cm urban sea-barramundi hasn't changed its body colour into silver-white as its winter version yet.  But it's a very good fish.
June 6, 2014
Land based, Darwin, NT, Australia

I recommend the above double hooks.
Very good for the salt water fishing.

HRT lure did work very well tonight. Barramundi #885

One more barramundi #886

HRT LURESMAD MINNOW

Colour: 023 fire engine

Size: 70mm

Where: Shallow water 30cm -50m

Water: Clear Incoming

Line: SUFIX 10LB

Leader: TRIUMPH SUPER SHOCK LEADER 30LB

Knot: The Slim Beauty Knot

Hook: OWNER Cultiva SD-36 Double hook #2 

Reel: SHIMANO SUSTAIN 1000FG

Rod: ST.CROIX  AVID/AVS66LF2 4-8LB 1/16-1/4oz. Fast action

Clip: FORCE TEN STAINLESS DUO LOCK SNAPS #2

Action: Steady retrieving 

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