Barra are most active around Wilderness Island and the Exmouth Gulf during the warmer months. They range from the creeks to the rock bars along the Eastern Gulf region. They will readily take diving, surface lures or soft plastics.

Here’s Jim with a beautiful Barramundi -

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Actinopterygii

Order: Perciformes

Family: Latidae

Genus: Lates

Species: L. Calcarifer

The barramundi feeds on crustaceans, molluscs, and smaller fish(including its own species); juveniles feed on zooplankton. Barramundi are euryhaline, but stenothermal. This catadromous species inhabits rivers and descends to estuaries and tidal flats to spawn. In areas remote from freshwater purely marine populations may become established.