Hot lure fishing in the creeks

Gavin Matthews and his brother John fished a week with me recently and had some awesome lurising action. 5 days were spent in the creeks and one day down the coast chasing pelagics. A variety of species were caught including barras, jacks, fingermark, cod, grunter, queenfish, blue and threadfin salmon, longtail tuna
In all, the biggest barra caught was John's 89cm fish. Some spectacular top water action was experienced with feeding barras sounding like a microwave full of popcorn! The action got better and better by the day with each of the last two days scoring over 50 barras and 30 odd fish of other species.
This is one of John's first barras on a top water lure. The bites make up for the lower hookup rate. Gavin with a nice cod which took him into the snags before being extracted. John managed to keep this tuna away from the sharks.....
Gavin did well to catch this jack from among mangrove roots on the high tide flat.

John with a harbour caught queenie. You don't have to go far some days to catch some great fish.