Wildcat

Just a quick note, no one ever camps at shady camp as Jenno64 has mentioned, 500 billion bugs, crocks and sweating balls……😃.

Hey Jenno64 The Shady camp barrage is a man made weir or small dam wall (barrage) with fresh run off water upstream and tidal salt down stream on either side which slows down the run off fresh water entering the creek. To access the coastal creeks off shore you head down stream out the mouth of Sampan creek. Take a look at the pic fresh run off upstream on the left, salt tidal right e.g run off. cheers mate.

Hey guys another NT report, left Darwin 3am this morning heading to one of our coastal creeks off shady camp sampan creek. Arrived at shady camp barrage ramp 5.30am, 40min cruise up Sampan creek dodging crocks and logs in the dark then another 20min steam to our creek arrive 6.30am. Cast for 4 hours straight dropping a few big girls along the way but finally landed a nice fat 93cm. Last picture is of a 3m crock 🐊 chasing the fish around the boat looking for a free feed. Traveled 131km on the water, 85L fuel @ $224L, 6 cans and a 93 Barra. Great day out how’s the serenity.

105 pic in a previous post. cheers

Hey Guys Just a quick one to hopefully cheer people up some with all this crazy shit going on around us, keep on smiling, try and be nice and help ya mates if that’s all we can do…. Darwin wet season has just been ok so far with no rain in between some small monsoon periods, but as always more rain needed (unlike down south) to get the flood plains run off really flowing. The coastal creeks have not yet fired but still some good fish to be got, with hours of casting and trolling, dodging storms, sweating like a biatch in 99% humidity just to wake up some bid girls. This weeks efforts landed a 65 and a 90. Hang in there guys.

N.o2 similar than N.o3 Barra Classic but in a +3 meter diver, and N.o 4 ,my old faithful but used in muddier waters around the snags.

No.1 gets the goods as well.

Hi Guys thanks for your interest in this topic, the NT sure is a magical place with wonderfull scenery and excitement around each corner. The lucky lure of choice in this situation was No.3, The Classic 120 Barra +5 Lure Ghost Bannafish. Rig used Rod: Daiwa TD Black Beefstick 1.83m 10-28g line 6-12kg. Reel: Daiwa Baitcaster TD Barra FOW 10, 40 pound Siglon 8 braid, 60 pound Pink Black magic leader. My reason for choosing this lure was purely the clarity and depth of water. The tide was a medium neap and had turned at this stage from high about 1 hour into the low averaging 2.5m-3.5m, my trolling line was 1km out from the mouth and back, the water clarity was good to medium. In this situation the Barra are starting to head into the river system from offshore, keen to feed on baits as the tide recedes out of all the feeder creeks (run off). Barra have eyes on top of their heads and tend to sit on the bottom or around snags looking to ambush prey, or kick their tails up and forage in the mud etc. The classic 120 I used is a +5, 5 meter trolling depth, as 61 crusher mentioned, I am going to adjust my trolling speed, rod angle and length of line to bounce this lure off the bottom, back up then back in the sand/ mud again. As the water clarity was so clear and shallow both bait and Barra are spooked easily, so an approach to put it straight on their nose with puffs of mud was the go, not making them chase something higher in the water column. cheers Guys.

Put a picture up Pickles it may still work today, I like your colours.

No.5’s a popular choice... Very good and true points mentioned by 61 crusher. 😇

Yeh another Good choice No5 he’s notched up a few..... Any reason to your choice???

Mackey