Dean with a Long Tail he caught great day had by all!
Neap tides this coming weekend should see the tuna and Mackerel come back on the chew. Mud crabs were the go last week around the mouth of the Adelaide and Leaders and some big mud crabs coming from Elizabeth. The warmer weather last week saw some of the billabongs spring to life,
fishing better with ten fish a day trips reports coming into the shop.
One fisho had a good day out catching up to 15 barra. One went 83cm but with the cooler nights predicted this coming weekend this may slow down again. The moon is rising and it will be well worth a fish at night
I have heard that Four Mile and Two Mile Holes Have been fishing well. Still a lot of smaller fish coming from them, but in saying that some really nice fish have been caught casting and trolling first light. The rangers have been warning people that they have to camp more then fifty metres from the river bank as the crocs don’t and will visit you in the middle of the night, so lets do the right thing. If you are heading out this way, l heard the road into to Hardies has been graded. They saw the graders at the gates of Hardies, how far they have done I am not quite sure. Some fishos have been working the many weed beds and snags that the Billabong has to offer. Corroborre and The Rock Hole has been a good area to fish, that’s one of the good things about Coroborree. There is heaps of water, and lures have been doing the damage. Little Lucifers in the green and gold, gold and the Elton John colours. The JR B52 as well the ever trust worthy Bomber you should have all the time in the tackle box, and a lot of the more seasoned fisher people that have been fishing over many years are using Spearheads. They have no rattle in them, and they were the most effective lure in it’s day, and still work very well, and catching fish when other more popular lures aren’t. With the moon bright on the more cooler nights it might be well worth a go, bigger fish come out to feed.
Tracey Holmes very happy about her first barra
If the wind holds of there have been some large schools of Bream getting caught along much of the foreshore of the harbour. Find some sort of rocky out crop and soak a peeled prawn. They are great fun on light gear and with school holidays on at the moment its a nice and easy days fishing, and with kids they fight nice and hard.
l went off East Point Sunday morning and got bitten off once, and saw one fisho lose a lot of line very quickly to a very large unstoppable fish, and another land a smaller Mackerel, moving around the rocks casting. Also managed a small Queenfish. The Wharf has seen bream being caught and with neaps you may get a chance to cast to schools of tuna that come close enough to lobe a chromie or marabou into them .
With the neaper tides the blue water is the go, most weekends the wind has not been all that bad, and the Mackerel and the many tuna schools that were around on the last neaps should pop up again. A jig or bottom bounce with bait chasing a few jewfish may be on the cards on the tide changes. The wrecks more to the mouth of the harbour have been going all right for a jewfish and snapper. Mud crabs will be a chance over in Shoal Bay and Adelaide River mouth and many of the Harbour Arms. Elizebeth is still producing big muddies and the bream have moved into the harbour with reports of good hauls of bream being caught on foreshores around Darwin. Queenfish out the front of Cullen and top of the tide at Larrakeyah. Land based l fish off East Point the other sunday morning has been quite but the neaper tides might stir some pelagics up around there, so plenty to offer have good and sun smart weekend from the team of Happy Micks. Tight lines.
Something has been going on at the “S Bends”. No, not at the Daly. No not at Coroborree, but down at Shady Camp. How weird is that? Some big silver lean barra have been giving fisho’s a work out! You may think l had too much sun over the weekend, and its definitely not the run off but they have moved up the river with the big bait schools. The barrage went gang busters one night last week, as well as the mouth of Sampan. Barra are really on the chew down that neck of the woods. One customer came in with a report of a metre plus fish on a trolled 
