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Hey everyone we’re now finishing up for the dry season here in Darwin and I’m heading South to Queensland’s Sunshine’s Coast waterways while the wet season does it’s bit in the Top End. We be fishing the usual haunts of the Noosa, Maroochydore, Mooloolah estuarine systems along with the Pumicestone Passage targeting the usual suspects of Flathead, Bream, Trevally, Jewfish, Cod, Mangrove Jacks and the offshore bays chasing the Tuna and Mackerel schools. Hope to see you on board…Tight Lines And Screaming Reels to You All, Brian From Anglers Advantage Fishing Charters, Number 1 In Soft Plastics And light Tackle Sports Fishing.

Hey everyone just the one report for you this week before I start the trip south to Queensland’s Sunshine coast to escape the wet up here in Darwin and charter on the Sunshine Coast’s beautiful and pristine waterways from November through until early March before we return to Dawin for the run off and the dry season again next March.

We had Christian from Canberra out with us last Wednesday where we targeted the bays early on on the early run out tide getting stuck into the Queenfish straight away with some good hits and air borne tactics these pelagic species gave us good fun before we crossed the harbour and into the feeder creeks fishing the drains and creek mouths seeing Christian bag 8 species for the day consisting of  3 Queenfish, 4 Catfish, A Brown Mowong., Flathead, Bream, Estuary Cod, a Tarpon that did some spectacular jumps and 2 Barramundi with the largest coming in at 66cms.

 Like I say that’s it on the fishing reports in the top end until next March everyone, stay tuned with me on the Sunshine Coast reports and hope to see you on board down there or in Darwin again in 2012, Tight Lines And Screaming Reels To You ll, Brian From Anglers Advantage Fishing Charters, Number 1 In Soft Plastics And Light Tackle Sports Fishing Charters cover Queensland’s Sunshine Coast And Darwin In the Northern Territory.

Hey everyone, well the build up may be well and truly here and the tourism trade is backing off but the fishing is well and truly hotting up, particularly in the feeder creeks wand with the spring tides the Barra have been making themselves heard by their resounding buffing of the schools of spooked bait fish!

 Friday the 7th we had Rowan and Kate Moore out with us for the full day where the tides wern’t the most favorable as we targeted the creek systems with the Soft Plastic gear where Kate was happy to watch as Rowan worked the creek systems hard flicking the little 1/8oz jig heads around the mouths to be rewarded with some Golden Snapper before the Daiwa Luvias 200 reel screamed to life as a very solid Brown Mowong did some resounding runs for freedom all to no avail eventually falling to the net to come in at a very respectful 6kgs! Rowan ended up with 3 Golden Snapper, 1 Golded Trevally and a Catfish to add to the Mowong as well as dropping a Queenfish.

 On Monday we were out for a half day with Jonathan Sweet from Melbourne, Henry Sweet from Adelaide and Alan O’ Neill from Sydnaey, we crossed the harbour to the feeder creek systems where on the run out tide the boys flicked the Soft Plastics around the drain mouths where the Golden Snapper were firing seeing the boys get a good mixed bag of species as well. Jonathan took 4 Golden Snapper, a solid Brown Mowong and a Cod for the 4 hour session, Henry did well bagging a thumping Brown Mowong, a nice Golden Trevally alond with a GT, a Cod and 3 Golden Snapper. Alan also bagged a Brown Mowong and a Javelin Fish for the session.

 On Tuesday we were out on the harbour again for a half day session with Wes and Stacey from Melbourne where Stacey was straight up on the 1st cats nabbing a Golden Snapper, Stacey then proceeded with her hook ups nabbing 4 Golden Snapper, and a nice Brown Mowong which gave her some hard work to get to the net on the 4lb gear along with a nice Golden Trevally. Wes worked hard to try nd keep up seeing him bag 1 Golden Snapper, 2 Catfish and a Trevally for his efforts.

 Thursday we had Mark and his wife Michelle Sullivan along with their on Andrew out with us for  half day session where gain we crossed the harbour to the feeder creek systems and with the spring tides the systems drained nicely for us as we searched hard for the much sought after Barramundi. Michelle hooked up on 2 Flathead,a Catfish and a Cod while Andrew took out the species catching 3 Flathead, a Queenfish, a Mangove Jack, a Blue Threadfin Salmon and a Barra but catch of the day went to mark who persevered flicking and working the Soft Plastic around the drain mouths to be eventually rewarded with a solid hook up and have the Daiwa Caldia 2000 reel scream to life as the water exploded as a mighty Barramundi shook it’s whole body into the air and after several heart in mouth moments as the fish hit the air again and again and actually head butted the boat at one stage she eventually fell to the net to jeers of joy for the much sought after happy snap coming in at a very respectful 73cms on the 4lb gear before being released to fight another day. Well done all around guys!

On Friday we again had Wes out with us along with his friend Bolo where we searched the drain mouths with both the boys fishing hard to try and bag a Barra on the Soft Plastics with plenty of activity among the spooked bait fish the boys kept flicking seeing Boro nab 2 Catfish and a Trevally for the session and with Wes also bagging a Catfish and a Javelin Fish before once again the water exploded with a mighty Barramundi being the culprit, Wes fought the fish well keeping it under control before it fell to the net to come in at 66cms.

Saturday we had a half day session with Danielle Young and Chris Gale from Adelaide along with Mitch Lynch from Darwin and again with the spring tides the guys flicked the lures throughout the systems seeing Danielle hook up on a Queenfish, a Mangrove Jack, a Flathead,a Javelin Fish and a Ray for good measure. Mitch bagged a Mangrove Jack and was unlucky to hook up on 2 Barramundi seeing both of them drop the hook on their air borne antics. Chris persevered seeing him bag an Ox Eye Herring,a Catfish,a much maligned Stonefish and a much sought after Barramundi seeing Chris also drop another Barra.

 That’s all ntil next time everyone, Until Then Tight Lines And Screaming Reels To You All. Brian From Anglers Advantage fishing Charters, Number 1 In Soft Plastics And Light Tackle Sports Fishing Covering Darwin In the Northern Territory And Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.

Hey everyone, another week gone and the temperatures are slowly creeping up into the mid thirties and the humidity is building here in the top end but as it does so the action is also warming up with some good schools of Queenfish targeting the bait-fish on the high tides and when the creek systems drain the Golden Snapper are firing along with the buffing Barra!

Last Wednesday we had Lindsay Hatelel from Melbourne out for an afternoon session with the low springs where we targeted the drains to nab a Golden Snapper, Catfish and 2 Barra for the session.

Thursday saw us on the water for a full day session with Allan Ainsworth From Tamworth, NSW where we fished the bays in the morning on the high tides seeing Allan produce 6 Queenfish and 6 Trevally before we moved into the feeder creek systems on the run out seeing Allan bag a Catfish and a Javelin fish but dropping both a nice Mangrove Jack and a Barramundi for the afternoon session.

Sunday morning we were out with Alison Todd and Sean Behan from Glebe in NSW where again we fished the bays on the mornings high tide to see both Alison and Sean have some good action on the Queenfish on the Light Tackle Soft Plastic’s outfit’s before we tried one of the closer creeks to mix things up a bit. The resulting tally saw Alison catch 3 Queenfish while Sean caught 2 Queenfish and a Catfsh  with sean getting pulled in onto a snag by a very solid Brown Mowong.

 Monday saw Sean and Alison out with us again for a full day session, again we targeted the bays early on in the morning seeing Sean catch 5 Queenfish and 2 Trevally and Alison bag 4 Queenfish and 1 Trevally before the tide started racing out putting the Queenfish down and we crossed the harbour to the feeder creek systems and has the tide dropped flicked the small Soft plastics around the mouths of the drains and across the creeks, As Sean flicked across one such drain the little Daiwa Luvias 2000 reel screamed in pain as the 4lb Fireline stripped off the drag and across the guides of the 4-8lb spin stick with the culprit showing itself some 30mts away in the shape of a prized Barramundi, The next 10 minutes had everybody’s hearts in their mouths as the mighty fish did some screaming runs and head shaking airborne tactics trying to shake the jig head loose but all in vain as the 79cm Barra fell to the net to high fives and whoops of joy before getting the moment captured on camera. Sean also managed another Barra along with 2 Golden Snapper and a very solid Brown Mowong. Alison also worked hard for the afternoon bagging 2 Flathead, a Catfish and a very toxic Stonefish on the Soft Plastics.

On the Tuesday we had Christian Willett from Perth out with us for a full day where in the Morning Christian bagged 2 Queenfish with the larger one coming in at 80cms on the 4lb gear, Christian also bagged 2 Golden Snapper, 2 Javelin Fish, a Trevally, a Catfish and a hard fighting aerial bourne Blue Threadfin Salmon.

 That’s about all until next time everybody, Until Then Tight Lines And Screaming Reels To You All, Brian From Anglers Advantage Fishing Charters…..Number 1 In Soft Plastics and Light Tackle Sports Fishing Charters covering Darwin In the Northern Territory And Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.

Hey everyone sorry it’s been a while since the last post, with the beginning of September the tourism trade is slackening off up here in Darwin and I have had family from overseas visiting so have been on a road trip to the big rock in the middle but back in Darwin now and with the humidity building up here the fishing is beginning to fire and have had a few charters in the last week on th neap tides producing some good catches and with the onset of the spring tides next week I would expect the Barra to fire. Also saw some Tuna beginning to turn up in the bay this week so fingers crossed on some drag burning action from them.

 Just before I headed south on the road trip I had Tom Hansen from Alice Springs out with me for a full day on the Harbour where early on with the high tides we got stuck into the Queenfish on the 4lb Soft Plastic gear seeing Tom pull in 5 Queenfish around the 60cm mark with these fish doing back flips and getting the airborne antics happening before falling boat side for the happy snaps. We the crossed the Harbour to our inlets and continued to flick the Plastics around seeing Tom pull in 2 trevally, 2 Cod and a Flathead with the almighty Barra being elusive save for Tom hooking up on on briefly only to have it throw the hook.

 After my trip and on the Tuesday 20th we had Geoff Clack from Newcastle, NSW along with Shane Stocker from Adelaide in SA out with us for the full day expedition and with the tide droppin the fish did not fail to dissapoint with both the boys getting good catches. We had a quick flick on the way across the bay in our Queenfish spots with Shane hooking up on the 1st cast to a nice 60cm fish followed shortly after by Geoff with 2 more Queenfish before we targeted out inlet spots and the Golden Snapper were firing hard seein Geoff catch 8  and Shane boating 10 for the session. The final count for the boys saw Shane with a tally of 1 Queenfish, !0 Golden Snapper, 2 Flathead, 2 Cod, 1 Mangrove Jack, 4 Javelin Fish,  and a Trevally. Geoff caught 2 Queenfish, 8 Golden Snapper,1 Cod, 1 Trevally, 1 Javelin Fish and a Flathead.

Thursday we had Angus Murchison and Craig Robertson from bonnie Scotland out for the afternoon session where we targeted one of the closer feeder creeks seeing Angus hook up and boat a large Long Tom on the 1st cast before a bit of an Afternoon lull before hooking up on a nice Blue Threadfin Salmon followed shortly after by a Golden Snapper and a Trevally, Craig didn’t fair as well with just a small Jvaelin Fish for his efforts. Angus also came out with us for the afternoon session on the following day along with Brian also from Scotland where the boys hooked up on some small Golden Snapper and Trevally before on the last cast of the day Angus’s small Soft Plastic was smashed and the ensuing 150mtr drag screaming run saw a metr plus Queenfish getting airborne ad as we chased across the inlet the fish went deep and steady for over half an hour, every time we came close the fish again went deep, we had it leader ed and just as we came close to netting it the 14lb leader wore through to see the mighty fish amble off to the depths from where it came, all on board wre devastated but the fish fought too hard and too long on the 4lb outfit, as they say that’s fishing!

 Saturday saw us out with Jim a nd his Son Callum Priddle from Coolum on Queenslands Sunshine Coast where with a slow neap tide run out the boys struggled but Jim did manage to hook up n 2 nice Brown Mowong seeing one snag us up but getting one boat side for the obligatory happy snap before being released.  With a few smaller Trevallys and Golden Snapper for the morning we headed back across the bay happening on a school of Longtail Tunas which were skittish succeeding in a few casts on the school but with no hook ups we called it a day.

 That’s it until next time Guys And Gals, Until Then Tight Lines And Screaming Reels To You All, Brian From Anglers Advantage Fishing Charters, Number1 In Soft plastics And Light Tackle Sports Fishing Covering Darwin In the Northern Territory And Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.

Hey everyone, well the weather has been turning it on up here in Darwin with the temperatures in the low 30′s every day and the wind abating with the spring tides the conditions have been about as perfect as we can get and with the air getting a bit muggier the fish have been playing ball as well.

Hey everyone just a quick one to let you know what’s been happening in the last week, with the spring tides fading last week we had some action early on  but with the neap tides in the last few days and with windy conditions it’s been hard work but the winds are abating and the springs are coming on again at the weekend and with some big tidal movements next week we expect the flats and creeks to be firing.

Hey everyone just a quick report for you all to let you know what’s happening on the water, I’ve been away this last week but we’re back on the water today and with the spring tides on again in the next few days we expect some action in the creeks where the Barra should be getting more and more active from here on in with the build up to the wet creating that muggy atmosphere that brings they seem to love.

 Friday 5th August we had Peter from Garraway along with Todd from Mildura, VIC along with Ken Lette from TAS out with us where we flicked the Soft plastics around in Darwin’s feeder creek systems to see Todd nab 2 Catfish, a Barra and a Mudcrab of all things have a go at the Soft plastic lures while Peter also nabbed a Barra on his very 1st cast of the day followed up by a Javelin Fish while Ken hooked up on a good sized barra only to have it throw the hook after a couple of minutes of solid runs, Ken then bagged the obligatory Catfish along with a Flathead.

 Monday saw us out for the afternoon session with Andrew Wood and Michael Durrand from Melbourne where we had the neap tides and crossed the harbour to fish the mangrove lined banks of some of the creek systems where the boys cast the light Soft Plastic Jig Heads up against the banks and twitched them back slowly seeing Michael bag 3 Javelin Fish, a Golden Snapper and a Flathead for his efforts while Andrew bagged just the one Javelin Fish.

 Wednesday we were out again with Robert and Kay Wheatley from Melbourne out with us for the morning session joined by Peter Mullin from Byron Bay who was along for the full day session. Robert was 1st to hook up on a solid fish that did some nice work on the drag of the little Daiwa Luvias 2000 to eventually appear  through the murky water and prove to be a very solid 4kg Brown Mowong, Kay then got into the mix with 3 keeper fish and 3 different species with a Golden Snapper, a Javelin Fish and a Bream. We pushed up to the top part of the creek systems as the tide was dropping and targeted the flats where Peter sight cast to a solid fish that once again had drag screaming out and after some very solid runs was eventually brought alongside the boat where it was duly netted and topped the scales at 5kgs in the shape of a very solid Brown Mowong. Peter also had another solid hook up but this fish got in among the mangrove stubs and succeded in a bust off. We then headed back to the jetty to drop off the morning crew and were joined by Darrell Lazzaro from Geelong for the afternoon session but with the tidal change it was hard work with Peter nabbing two small Queenfish the boys worked hard to no avail seeing Darrell have on of those rare ocassions the resulted in a duck for his efforts.

 Friday we were out for the morning session with Fionn Hurley from the Gold Coast where in near perfect conditions with little or no wind and glassed out water we crossed the bay and into the creek systems where with the run out tide we were into the fish early on with Fionn nabbing 4 Golden snapper, 4 Javelin Fish and a Trevally for the morning.

 That’s all until next time Guys and Gals, Until then Tight lines And Screaming Reels To You All, Brian From Anglers Advantage Fishing Charters, Number 1 in Soft Plastics And Light Tackle Sports Fishing Charters!

Hey everyone well with the water temperatures warming up we’ve seen the Barramundi action warming up also with some good bite action on the run out tides and with the spring tides currently happening the action will continue for the next few days.

 Thursday we had Glen and Gwen Cunningham from Sydney out with us for the morning session where Gwen was 1st to hook up on a aerial borne Barramundi which did a few runs before falling to the net for a happy snap. Gwen then also bagged 2 Trevally, a Flathead and a Toadfish for good measure. Glen fought hard and managed to also bag 2 Trevally for the session.

 Friday we had Louis Sacks from South Africa out with us for the morning session where we crossed the harbour in search of a metre plus Queenfish, we tried hard but with a wind chop stirring up the already murky water to no avail. We pushed into the creeks to flick the Soft Plastics about where Louis managed to hook up on a Bream, Trevally and a Flathead before dropping a nice Threadfin Salmon which gave a few solid runs before popping the leader.

 Saturday morning we had John Dumbill and Wheldon Nickolson from Perth along with Todd Simms from Darwin where we actually had a foggy start to the day with visibility shut down we idling our way into the feeder creek systems with Wheldon first to hook up on a hard fighting catfish of all things before coming good with a nice Javelin Fish, Wheldon also bagged another nice Javelin Fish and two Cod for the morning. John also bagged a Catfish early on before coming up trumps with a nice 52cm Barra. Todd had a good hook up on a solid Barra which did a good run before spitting the hook. Todd then bagged a Cod late in the session before we headed back to the ramp.

 Saturday afternoon we had Martin Lott and Kate Milbourne out with us where we pushed into the same feeder creeks we had targeted in the morning and with the tide still in the lower stages Martin was straight  into the Barramundi with a quick succession of hook ups on 5 fish seeing him get 3 boat side and with Martin hooked up on a Barra Kate was not to be outdone with a double hook up getting stuck into a Queenfish at the same time. Martin’s final tally for the afternoon was 3 Barra, 1 Catfish and a Golden Snapper with Kate just getting the 1 Queenfish.

Sunday we had Chris Macleam (Cm) from Palmerston and Chris Schilcock (Cs) from Perth out with us for the morning session where we targeted the feeder creeks again with he boys nabbing Catfish early on in the session before getting the better species with Cm nabbing 1 Catfish, 1 Javelin Fish, 1 Golden Snapper and a Barramundi along with a nice Diamond Trevally. Cs bagged 2 Catfish, a Golden Snapper and a Javelin Fish and also hooked up a Barra which got air bourne throwing the hook as it did so.

 Sunday afternoon we were back on the water again with Dylon Van Lati and Luke Brind from Adelaide, SA where we crossed the harbour for the later stages of the run out tide where Luke bagged a Golden Snapper, Catfish and a Bream. Dylon nabbed a Javelin Fish before we pushed out of the creeks as the tide rose to give the boys a shot at a metre plus Queenfish. Luke was first to get a good follow and strike with a hook up before the Queenie had a screaming run and head shake to throw the hook. Dylon wa straight back into the water which saw him have a solid hook up and the certate 3000 reel screamed in pain as the Samaki rod bent over. The solid fish did some screaming runs testing Dylons stamina and footing before he got it under control and along side the boat where it was duly netted for the happy snaps coming in at 112cms!

 Thursday we had Rodney Winen from Redhill, SA and Craig Thomas from Gulivare,SA where we crossed the harbour and targeted the top of the flats on the low spring tides where the fish were active and the Barra were firing. Rodney got a nice Golden Snapper early on in the session and hooked up on 3 Barra but unfortunately getting none boat side, Craig bagged a nice Javelin Fish and a small Barra but also dropped 2 nice Barra.

 That’s all until the next report Guys and Gals, Untill Then Tight Lines And Screaming Reels To you All, Brian From Anglers Advantage Fishing Charters….Number 1 In Soft Plastics And Light Tackle Sports Fishing!

Hey everyone been a busy week on the viagra again and although we are on the neap tides this week the spring tides are coming around on the weekend and with some good low tides next week we expect the Barramudi to be coming on strong.

 Last Tuesday the 19th we had Nick Waterman from Adelaide out with us for the full day on Darwin Harbour where we tried for the bigger Queenfish early on in the day but with a lot of wind chop stirring up the water and making for unpleasant conditions we pushed into the feeder creeks early with some limited success before the tide dropped adequately to target the mouths of the feeder creeks and flats with Nick nabbing 2 Javelin fish, 2 Bream and a Trevally before coming up with the well earned prize of a 60cm Barra which did some head shaking action and jumps along with some screaming runs before Nick got him under control and alongside the boat and into the net for the regulatory happy snaps!

 Wednesday we had Hugh and Sarah from the Gold Coast out with us for the afternoon session with the tide dropping nicely to get the mouths of the creeks and the flats firing with the bait fish being marauded which saw Hugh get into 4 Bream and a Javelin Fish before getting slammed by a hard deep running fish which worked the drag on the Daiwa Caldia 2000 before coming up through the murky water to be a beautiful solid 55cm Brown Mowong. Not to be outdone Sarah persevered to nab 2 Catfish, a Flathead, a Bream, 2 Javelin Fish and 2 Cod before coming up trumps with the prize of a 55cm Barra!

  Thursday afternoon we had Andrew Lette along with his 7 year old son Billy from Tasmania joined by Nick Borrows from Caloundra where again we had perfect tidal conditions for working the creek mouths and flats which saw Nick bag a Bream, a Catfish and a Javelin Fish and Andrew nab 2 Catfish and a Bream. Billy came up with the goods getting 4 Catfish,2 Bream and a Javelin Fish but once again Billy taking out the prize with a stunning 60cm Barramundi along with a smaller fish.

 On Friday we had Burt Brendeo and Peter White out with us for the afternoon session but with the tides swinging around to the neaps and with that extra bit of water about the fish were not quite as active seeing Burt lose a nice Threadfin early in the session and nabbing just the one Bream after that and Peter catching just a Trevally and a Flathead for the session.

 Monday afternoon we were out again with Louis Sacks from South Africa where we targeted the feeder creeks on the run out neap tide seeing a little bit of activity early in the session with Louis getting2 Javelin Fish and a Trevally on the Soft Plastics before the fish shut down mid afternoon.

 Tuesday morning we had May Brain from Hervey Bay out with us for the morning session where we tried hard and fished harder in all the usual spots but with the neap tides at thier worst and with only a one metre variant we drew one of those rare sessions where we were out for a duck!

 Tuesday afternoon were were out there again with Louis Sacks again along with his mate John Simpson also from South Africa and Sara from South Australia. With a bit more of a variant on the afternoon tide and with it running out we had some better success in the same spots we had tried in the morning. Louis took out the afternoon session with 3 Golden Snapper, 1 Trevally, 2 Flathead and a Queenfish on the light Soft Plastic gear. John managed 2 Golden Snapper and a Trevally while Sara caught a Javelin Fish before hooking up on a hard hitting and aerial jumping Queenfish that was just about to fall to the net and quite literally spat the hook straight at me hitting me square on the spotter sunglasses before sauntering off to the murky waters from whence it came.

 That’s all for the time being everyone, Until next time Tight Lines And Screaming Reels To You All, Brian From Anglers Advantage Fishing Charters Darwin, Number 1 In Soft Plastics And Light Tackle Sports Fishing Charters.