Hey Luke! Personally, the easiest way to catch a barramundi is using a 4/0 octopus beak hook with a live herring or mullet, bigger the better - don't be too afraid to throw a 15 or 20cm mullet on your hook, only 60 or 70cm barramundi have been known to even eat 25cm mullet. Hooking your live baits through the lip and nose will help them hold better and stay alive better. Fish between the tides, preferably from low to high and cast near mangroves or structure with shade. Follow these and I'm sure you'll have your first barra in no time! Also with your drag, if your line is near structure, you're not holding your rod and your drag is undone like you showed in the video, then you are almost guaranteed to lose a legal sized barra. Put your drag around where you can pull a tiny tiny bit out using just one hand without wrapping. Cheers.

Small tip too give a go, has worked for me anyway is with the live herring two smaller ones through the back of the tail a couple mil up from the tail does the job for fingers and jack really well, mullet is the overall better bait for barra however! Love the vids keep it up!

Love how enthusiastic you are in your videos. I generally fish pretty tight drag so that when the fish eat the bait they hook themselves.

Hey mate, I only just came across your videos and I love them. You actually show the reality of fishing and that's great.. I'm up in the NT and the what I've found works for me is fishing the change in tide from low to high. Also keep in mind that wherever you catch live bait barra will be because that's what they are after as well. Fishing the mouth of a creek should also provide the goods. I run a 6/0 octopus circle hook and it works well for me. Barra have a big mouth and should have no dramas at all gulping it down for you. Let me know if your ever in darwin. Love the videos bro, keep it up👍🤞

Hey luke great video, I was touched very deeply by this video and it really taught me to value persistance. You have shown me that at the end of a dark tunnel there is always light, I also am on a similar quest and have donuted 5 times already, the day it does come will feel sweeter than ever. I think personally the hooks you were using may be a bit small, for the estuarine systems there tend to be smaller models so it is important to utilise smaller hooks to get a more natural bait presentation, as the fish in those small systems tend to be more skittish. Great Idea with using the cast net sinkers, you really do make the best out of a good situation. Love the video, keep em coming. ❤.

Love these kind of videos by Luke. What a bloody legend

Hey Luke, my tips to catch some Barra and jacks are to fish close to the bank where there are lots of mangroves and structure (sunken trees, logs etc) and cast infront of those structure on one hour before or after the high tide and you should have some tight lines!

Hey Luke mate, I love the videos and just wanted to tell ya, that creek you were fishing in (with the flood gates), is called Hills Creek. It is quite possibly one of the best barra spots ive fished around the estuary. My father and i caught a 120cm barra on the other side of those flood gates. The trick we found was to spend the day catching large mullet (as big as possible but keep all the mullet you get) in the cast net, then spend the night standing up on the road on top of the flood gates, and fish the other side to what you fished. We hook the mullet through the back (like you did but a little deeper so they stay on better), and use larger hooks (specifically "Circle Hooks") because they are far better for hooking barra, since they are self setting. Good luck mate.

Hey Luke such a great video again thank you for these uploads keep it up.

Great Vid Luke - hope your enjoying the good weather. 👌👍

hey Luke i love your videos and especially love how you respond to all of our comments. it really makes me feel great when you respond to my comments 😊. keep up the great work and this awesome community will support you 🤟

Love watching these videos, I’ll keep watching till the first Barra

Hey Luke seeing your persistence is definitely encouraging, I think we can all relate to the defeated feeling all to well. Can't wait to see it pay off bro. tighter drag and circle hooks should help you hook up when not holding a rod

Your starting work out the basic stuff that’s needed to get yourself the big one mate, there is a process and your looking like your well on your way! Just keep cracking at it dude. I really have faith your first is gonna be a beast!

Just found your channel... Good on ya mate! Keeping it real. And open enough for advice...

dont give up lukey i believe in you my man keep up this amazing series

Hey Luke! I just came across your channel recently and mate, I absolutely love it. You absolutely earn’t my sub mate, and I can’t wait to watch another stunner!

Love the videos

One day you should come to the nt keep up the work legend

luke get a fishing shirt mate I had my face back cut open from skin cancer mate stay safe always you have a beautiful family that needs you around

Love the videos keep it up Luke

hey luke, i recommend using a circle hook when live bait fishing and sitting your rod down, the hooks ur using they have to be set when you get a bite, circle hooks set themselves a lot better. don’t be afraid to use big bait fish either!!

Another great video 👍👍👍

Bro it’s good to see you learning as you go cos it gives amateurs like me wind behind the sail know what I mean 😎🙌🏾 God bless and keep it up cos we love it brus 😊👌🏾

Hey Luke mate great video another awesome place to catch Barra is at tinaroo near Atherton. It is a 1 hour drive from cairns there is no crocs and there are big Barra getting up to 150cm

Use the lightest sinkers you can just enough to keep them on the bottom. Have your drag set and in the rod holder. It's easier catching lives on a low tide.

hello friends, I like your persistence in fishing, I took a lot of lessons from your videos, greetings from one hobby from Indonesia

Love the vids keep it up

I like your vids u inspire me to go out fishing I’m buying a new rod

Good on ya for giving it a red hot go mate you’ll get there

Great video Luke hope you get one

hey bro love this series keep it up

Keep trying never give up doing amazing try fishing around snags and dead trees that are still standing🎉

Hey mate keep at it , you'll get a big one soon , my option would use Kahle 7/0 hooks mate are the go ,make a bigger live bucket , cheaper make your own . Bunnings buy a bucket mate or 20ltre drum with screw on lid easy to nock up a good 1 hold plenty loads of live baits rope up over the side,catch a few soon I'm backing ya , awesome 👍

Great video!! I usually use like a size 4 circle hook and for live bait I put a small sinker so it swims around like a normal fish. I mentioned it in my last comment but you could you please do a budget challenge. Keep up the good work!!!

Good on you thanks, try getting the little bells for rod tip ,then attach them to wooden clothes peg for quick removal ,will give you early warning of strike

Awesome vid 👌

Hey Luke loving the vids mate, I fish for barramundi in fresh water in the isa and I use a 6/0 circle hook and use spangled perch for live bait and my biggest so far is 123cm anyway keep up the awesome work mate and happy fishing 🎣🎣🎣🍻🍻🍻

back at it again. keep on grinding king ;)

Luke, Get some live mudcod an fish at first an last light , Using a 100lb hand line with big trebble hook in its back you will get a barra for each mudcod m8

Brother you are really a smily person😊💯

Hey Luke just a quick tip when you hook the live bait hook them though the nose and you want your drag just a little bit loose that you can pull it a little bit out hope this helps 😀

Keep up the good work brother man 🙏

Love your videos brother you will land a beauty soon... mullet sards mudcod are great bait. Try floating a live bait sinker down the bottom 3 way swivel and a float at thw top... make the float adjustable for deeper and shallower water.

Hey bro , go right up on the causeway openings there's three in the inlet , should pick up a few with good livies 🤙top of tide first hour of run out , I'll take some live bait 😂 freeze them up man with salt and use out reef , they get smashed !!

4/0-6/0 circle hooks man, Barra slayers. I use 10/0 circles on boat ramps with jacks as live bait ☺️. Barra lollies

Love the video mate 👌 you ever caught mulloway in Melbourne I seen you had a video at Queenscliff

5:01 that little drain with water running out of it. Luke sit outside out that and cast a livie right bext to it. Barra love running water like that, it provides extra oxygen in the water and hypes all the bait fish and predator fish

Utilise every bit of your surroundings!!! Those gates are a great place to flick lures and also try parking your boat on the boat ramp there and try fishing both sides

Hey Luke great vid, with live bait use circle hooks they are self setting hooks and don’t tie the sinker on let the sinker sit on the like free flow

Hey Luke, you seem to have mastered step 1 to catch a barra, which is getting live bait. Bait your mullet or herring through the nose. I think you are hooking the live bait close to the edge of the bait and it's just breaking off. I'd go back to that little hole where you got some decent bites. Try a lure as well while you have a couple of live bait out. You are sooo close! Well done.

5/0 mustard o'shaunghnessy for livies about finger tip to elbow length of leader to swivel then a small ball sinker on main line and fish last hour of run out to first hour of run in and try holes in the mouths of your smaller feeder creeks

Heres a good video idea you should fish for whiting they are really fun to fish and catch and plus they taste great

Also I purchased a cast net. Spent a day practising how to throw it in my back yard. First cast I make it lands on some rocks. Totally unusable by the time I got it back. So it happens to the best of us lol

One time I went out in the Barron had a cast for some live ones at the boat ramp got hundreds of em sadly the Barra season closed

in the 3 y off barra charters I caught 85 percent of all barra on live prawns under a float. 6 - 8 ft under float with really small lead to hook. use a stopper bead to let your float run to set length

Hey mate try a mix of a dropper rig and a running sinker on 2 rods. try and chase either mullet, herring, prawn even garfish for bait don’t worry about that other shit. Hook smaller mullet through the tail and larger mullet above the lip. 5-8/0 wide gape hooks. Reasonably tight drag.

Hey mate keep trying you will get there. Barra wont swallow a livey straight away, they will mouth it for awhile and spit it if they feel resistance. Keep your drag loose and strike 5 or 6 seconds after the line starts to run. Best way is to use a bait runner or overhead reel that you can disengage and then engage instantly for the strike. Shimano Calcuttas are good for this 👍

Hey mate try going lake tinaroo up on the tablelands u can catch live bait with small hooks then check em out and hope for a barra

i was just in cairns this week for work, was looking out for ya haha try circle hooks bruz.. they go good

When live bait fishing for barra, keep a close eye on your line. If it suddenly goes really slack wind like shit. Fish dont always swim away from you when they run

Hey mate if you’re fishing the inlet head to the top where there is an old boat ramp, heaps of pylons come out as a giveaway. It’s where water from processing plant pumps out. Heaps of rocks and a nice creek coming out from the point next to the ramp. Anchor up on the drop off and get ya livies in there

sick video man keep up the good work

Hey mate, i've seen you around mission beach before if you go the new marina and chuck on a micro jig 7g - 20g jig late arvo early morning you'll get all sorts, including some nice Barra. Even cairns marina will provide chuck on a small micro jig or just a small baitfish looking lure and jig it all around the pylons. Will make a good video

When you use live bait hook it at the tail and also use circle hooks as well

Mate I suggest going on a sport fishing charter in the inlet and learning how the pros do it so that you can have the same results they have

can you please do a fishing video when you have a bed on your boat and you can only use lures to catch your food. love your videos

Hey Luke you should come to South Africa and fish,you will have so much fun catching fish in Durban trust me

Also if you want Jacks fish near the bank in a little bit of hole where the are trees and logs in the water they like that stuff for shelter

I’d be using 4 or 5 circle hooks ! If you leaving in rod in rod holder circle hooks will help hook

Hey mate Just wanted to share my experience with throwing a cast net correctly and easily. Works everytime. Just KZfaq: how to throw a cast net step by step- captain Mike. Honestly it completely revolutionised the way to throw one for me. As for the barra, try using bigger baits mate, I feel the small lives you are using are too small, 15-25cm specimens are what you need Your welcome Haha hope it helps bro

That's was Saturday just gone I saw u fishing 6 29 min on your video than seen u casting for bait at the trawler jetty just near the boat ramp later on

Hey mate, me personally I set my drag a little loser when sitting the rods especially live baiting so if a fish grabs it the line will run giving you time to tighten the drag and set the hook

Please leave the drag tight and when you hook the fish adjust it

That causeway is your spot for bait and big fish same as the trawlers they’ll hold jacks underneath, your running the wrong rig for current mate learn the patternosta rig, your hooks to big again also learn how to snell hooks , take your bait home with you and freeze individually and then you have bait/burly and a head start on the next trip , once again use the tide to wash baits underneath boats and jetties , I’m invested now lol if you want your first Barra go to the Tully river and banyan ck fish live prawn from the mountain creeks and you are guaranteed a Barra , it’s no good if the Tully is running dirty . Oh keep your rod in your hand at all times, a second rod with a floating surface bait … I can’t wait to see you get one … 🎉

Yooo bro, try use live bait the one U use but on river mouth where is freshwater and sea meets... A bit murky water condition... Especially when early tide in to its peaks tide...

sup man I see your fishing near me and I wondered if u wanna go fishing sometime and just saying i still never caught a barra because im still a beginer haha

got to keep going your still learning

Hey mate, I am an avid follower of yours and would love to tee up a session one day! I fish with a running sinker - around 1.2-1.5m of leader, I use a 5/0 to 7/0 wide gap hook depending on the size of the mullet I'm using. Creek mouths on a run out tide is always good - especially if there is a decent hole in the mouth. You want to fish around eddy's in the current. Slow water behind a bend, or a rock will hold barra if there is some depth

i like to use circle hooks for live bait and any big baits in general you just let it sit and dont have to set the hook the fish sets it

Hi Luke great episode keep trying you will get one soon if you keep trying

Yeah boiiii

Ur hooking him right but what we do with the mullet we take a zip tie and a 6 o hook poke the sip tie through his eye then tight it up then hook the hook through his nose through the zip tie cuz then the hook can't get out cuz its tied with the zip tie hope this works

Keep at it luke!?! 🤫

Try a 4/0 also try no sinker and just drifting. Cover more ground. Also live bait jigs are awesome

one year from this video you gonna be a pro

It's probably crabs taking your bait 👌🏿

Barra are a top water feeders so if you put a balloon on there instead of your sinker

hey luke your hooking them a little too high just go a little bit down and the bait should stay on also leave the line loosen the drag so you can hear if your getting bitten or not

Hey mate herring are great bait but as you seen, they lose their scales and they suffocate by swallowing their scales. What I like todo is mix ups the Herring in the bucket then tip out the water and repeat.

I would look into using soft plastics to catch Barra, that’s how I catch mine.

Luke you should probably tighten up your drag so the fish hook them selfves up much easier

need to be fishing for barra on low tide as they have less places to go. went to cairns marina last weekend and nailed an 89cm baz..

Hey luke try match the hook size to the bait those bait were to small for 5/0 so try using a 3/0 or 2/0

I personally use a size 2 mustard circle hook.

Hey bro I was just wondering what type of go pro you use and whether you use the chest or head mount, and I was also wondering what editing tool you use because your videos are amazing!

Awesome video Luke but Ur still not letting the net fall out of Ur back hand bro don't matter cos u still caught them

If you had a couple of lures to flick around like chase bait prawns , hard body's or some paddle tale soft plastics you would have more of a chance to catch something or maybe even a Barra 😅

There's always big Barra and jacks there

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