Fishing Report
By Douglas Hewett
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With all the talk based around the lack of rain lately a lot of people are starting to worry about missing out on the run-off fishing.
Some crews have been finding good run-off in places and some good fish have been taken. But we are in the NT and the weather can change in a heart beat. There is a low forecast for the start of the week, so we could be swimming in it in a couple of weeks, but it’s the monsoonal trough the serious fishermen are waiting for. We need a good trough to form and give us a good soaking. With the Daly falling fast and the Adelaide and Shady camp pumping out quickly the rain can’t come quick enough.
With the break in the weather some people have made the trip off shore. I fished South Gutter last Sunday on the super neap tide ( 1 metre movement second stage). We fished 50 metre marks for some good Goldies up to 5kg and lots of little Saddle Tail snapper and Spanish Flag. The Spanish flag filleted and fished on the bottom acounted for all the big Goldies. There are large schools of Yellowtail Trevally up to 7kg. Patrol the pinnacles found in the deep gutters of South Gutter. They are lots of fun to catch in 60 metres of water but it gets too much like hard work went you drop to the bottom and hook up instantly and have to fight it back to the boa,t and then hook up instantly next drop. They are good on the tooth if bleed properly and filleted properly. Cut their throats all the way to the backbone and bleed them in abient tempurature water. This helps to carry as much blood out as possible. Ice them down for a minimum of 24hrs until rigimortis sets in. When filleting remove all of the red drive muscle in the middle of the fillet. This is what makes Trevally taste bad. Yellowtail and Tea Leaf trevally are worth eating but Giant Trevally have to much drive musle in their fillets and are not worth eating. This is why Giant Trevally fight like underwater Brahman Bulls.
There have been good reports coming from Shady Camp of a couple of metre plus Barra and some good numbers of smaller ones being caught on the neaper tides that just passed.
The top of Tommycut and Sampan seemed to acount for large numbers of fish. With some metre plus monsters being encounter. The Reidy’s B52 in the Krytonite colour acounted for some of the fish because of the uniqe under belly chrome that flashes when twitched and pierces the muddy water attracting the strike, a little bit of X-factor always helps and the Nils Master Spearheads in Elton John colours are working well.
Have a good week fishing and keep those reports coming in. Thanks to the guys that go out of their way to pop into the shop and let me know how they are going in the big rivers. Because some poor fellows like me are stuck at work on the good tides.
Cheers Douglas Hewett and the boys from Happy Micks Darwin