{{start}}

Based on my diary what I call spring for the Boyne River in Central Queensland arrived about 20th August last year and the year before. This tear I reckon that it arrived a week earlier. The criteria I bases that on is a dramatic change in the weather patterns and the behaviour of budding fruit trees ... last week several local fruit trees were suddenly ablaze with their spring blooms. That followed just a couple of "Indian summer days" following a relatively cold snap. Now cold snaps in Central Queensland are mild at the best of times with overnight temperatures dropping down to around 8 degrees. This week the overnight temperatures are back up to around 15 degrees and the daytime temperatures up to 29 degrees.

Water temperatures have been on the climb as well and that has got the barra moving.

Yesterday was a good start for the season with 3 barra landed of which two were between 60 and 70 cm plus a couple of other fish including a bream and a couple of small queenfish.

Water temperatures ranged fro 21.2 to 25.8 during the day with the fish most active around mid day when the water was a balmy 24 degrees.

Note the barra hooked jut off the edge of the gill plate!

{{end}}