It was a huge run-off season for the Top End in 2018. The Daly River hit 14.9 metres on January 31, well past the major flood level, and all the northern catchments were full. Rivers with a great outlook for the season were the Moyle, Daly, Finniss, Adelaide, Mary, Wildman […]

Individual barramundi behave very differently. And that’s not a fisherman’s thought, that is the finding of barramundi researchers. Fishermen catch “chromies” (saltwater barra) at river mouths when there’s other chrome-sheened fish biting 50km upstream. The research team explained shortly after a four-day Roper River research trip: “After downloading bulk acoustic […]

The NT’s superb Million Dollar Fish Season 3 promotion starts October 1 … there are 100 x $10,000 tagged barra, and a $1 million dollar fish, to be caught until February! The fish are released in waterways across the Territory. All the best barramundi fishing spots across the Top End […]

The year 2017 was a near-record Wet for the NT’s most important barramundi river catchments. The run-off fishing has been superb, with loads of big barra showing up, including a strong year class of 90cm fish. The annual fishing competitions provide great data about the state of the barra fishery. […]

Along with a ripper wet season for the Top End, 2017 has brought us the latest edition of the Australian FISH FINDER book. As well as revealing where the best reefs, rockbars, wrecks and ramps are, this huge book includes great chances to win Lowrance HDS9 units, Berkley portable outboards, […]

The Year 2017 will be a bumper barramundi fishing year for the Top End. Rainfall records have already fallen around Darwin. Falls of up to 290mm were recorded around Darwin at the end of January and in early February, and the famous Daly River went up to 13m. As I […]