Alex's Column 31 December 2020
Recently, before the rains began, I had the opportunity to accompany the NT Fisheries dedicated electrofishing team on a landlocked...
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ALEX'S WEEKLY SCRIBE 2020
Dec 25, 20202 min read
Alex's Column 24/12/20
Today is Christmas Eve, and Top End fishos have received a great Chrissie present with the official onset of the monsoon recorded last...
Dec 18, 20202 min read
Alex's Column 17/12/20
It’s shaping up to be a wet weekend ahead, so fishing options could be curtailed. According to the Bureau of Meteorology, there’s a fair...
Dec 11, 20202 min read
Alex's Column 10/12/20
Isn’t it amazing that, just 10 weeks into Million Dollar Fish Season 6, there have been 10 tagged barra caught: seven with red tags worth...
Dec 4, 20202 min read
Alex's Column 3/12/20
About the best news for anglers of late is coming from the Bureau of Metreology. I read in this week’s NT Weather Outlook media release...
Nov 27, 20203 min read
Alex's Column 27/11/20
The sad passing of former Deputy Chief Minister, Mike Reed, closed a truly-historic chapter in the development of recreational fishing in...
Nov 13, 20203 min read
Alex's Column 12/11/20
It’s hard to keep pace with the increasing popularity of all-female fishing competitions, not only in the NT but certainly...
Nov 6, 20203 min read
Alex's Column 4/11/20
Perhaps the most-surprising thing about last weekend’s Darwin Harbour round of the Top End Barra Series (TEBS) was that no one caught a...
Oct 30, 20202 min read
Alex's Column 29/10/20
There were major fishing competitions happening on both sides of the Top End over the weekend. I was over at Gove for the Airnorth Ladies...
Oct 25, 20203 min read
Alex's Column 22/10/20
Last week’s annual NT Billfish Classic showed that experience and careful team strategies were the key to success. Hosted by the Darwin...
Oct 16, 20203 min read
Alex's Column 15/10/20
It was 1980, and two mates and I were heading down a seriously-flooded Daly River in March. We were going all the way to the mouth where...
Oct 9, 20203 min read
Alex's Column 8/10/20
If you want to catch a big barra, head for the billabongs. Some magnificent big barra were caught over the weekend, and it’s no...
Oct 2, 20203 min read
Alex's Column 1/10/20
Who’s going fishing today? Some of you will probably already be out there, plying the waters for a barra with a tag; a red tag to be...
Sep 25, 20203 min read
Alex's Column 24/09/20
It’s continued to be billfish mania down off Dundee. Last weekend two events were combined: Darwin Game Fishing Club’s Billfish Bash and...
Sep 18, 20203 min read
Alex's Fishing Column 18/09/20
Leaders Creek across and into Adelaide River comprised the grounds for the fourth round of the Top End Barra Series (TEBS) last weekend....
Sep 11, 20202 min read
Alex's Column 10/9/20
There’s no question that last week’s Women’s Barratoga Bash (WBB) achieved what was intended by co-ordinator, Kristen Noble: relaxing and...
Sep 4, 20203 min read
Alex's Fishing Column 3/9/20
Sooner or later, someone will surely catch a tagged barra worth $1 million. That is especially given that, each annual season, the number...
Aug 28, 20202 min read
Alex' Column 27/8/20
Without getting hopes up too high, it looks like we may well be in for both an early and a big wet season in the coming months. Following...
Aug 21, 20202 min read
Alex's Fishing Column 20/8/20
The tragic death of a 56-year-old angler after being struck by a flying Spanish mackerel near the Six Mile Buoy was likely a...
Aug 14, 20202 min read
Alex's Fishing Column 13/8/20
With the NT election just over a week away, it’s timely that the Amateur Fishermen’s Association NT (AFANT) has released the responses...
Aug 7, 20202 min read
Alex's Fishing Column 6/8/20
Who said there are no quality barra in Corroboree Billabong? Kristen Noble definitely didn’t. She fished there recently at night with...
Jul 31, 20202 min read
Alex's Fishing Column 30/7/2020
It’s great news that conditions aren’t too bad for this coming long weekend. For starters, after blowing all week, the winds will drop...
Jul 24, 20203 min read
Alex Julius' Fishing Column 24/7/20
For several anglers, the fishing was not too bad last weekend in the third round of the Top End Barra Series (TEBS). However, according...
Jul 17, 20203 min read
Alex's Fishing Column 17/7/2020
It’s certainly been one of those windy dry seasons this year. Fortunately, this weekend should have light winds so Darwin anglers...
Jul 9, 20203 min read
Alex's Fishing Column 9/7/20
By all accounts, there are schools of pelagic species from the Peron Islands to the east Melville coast. There are plenty of ways to...
Jul 3, 20203 min read
Alex's Fishing Column 2 July 2020
Darwin may well be the guided fishing capital of Australia, but in terms of a home-based fishing tackle sector, the only serious product...
Jun 26, 20203 min read
Alex's Fishing Column 25 June 2020
It was tough going for competitors in the second completed round of the Top End Billfish Series. This was a three-day event with only a...
Jun 19, 20203 min read
Alex's Fishing Column 18 June 2020
It was just bloody magnificent spending Friday and Saturday on the Daly River last week. Mid-June is not the best time of year to fish...
Jun 12, 20203 min read
Alex's Fishing Column 11 June 2020
I was saddened this week with the news that the Aurora Kakadu Resort is currently being demolished. We knew this was happening after its...
Jun 5, 20203 min read
Alex's Fishing Column 4 June 2020
FISHING With Alex Julius The discussion on when state and territory borders should reopen has been the subject of widely-diverse views....
Jun 1, 20203 min read
Alex's Fishing Column 28 May 2020
There’s no doubt the dry season has well and truly set in. It’s chilly but, if you’re after some terrific bluewater fishing this weekend,...
May 22, 20203 min read
Alex's Fishing Column 21 May 2020
The remnants of the Top End Runoff are still evident. At Shady Camp on Monday, there was still noticeable-flowing fresh over the barrage,...
May 15, 20202 min read
Alex's Fishing Column 14 May 2020
Good weather early and late in the day helped get the inaugural round of the Penn Top End Billfish Series off to a good start. Although...
May 11, 20203 min read
Alex's Fishing Column 7 May 2020
I was surprised to learn recently that it’s been 20 years since an up-to-date nationwide picture of the economic value of recreational...
May 1, 20202 min read
Alex's Fishing Column 30 April 2020
It’s really difficult to get a clear handle on the restrictions in relation to fishing. Last week, the NT’s Chief Health Officer put out...
Apr 24, 20203 min read
Alex's Fishing Column 23 April 2020
There’s no doubt Shady Camp was a good place to be last Friday and through the weekend. The tides were neap and slowly increasing over...
Apr 17, 20203 min read
Alex's Fishing Column 16 April 2020
Lack of significant winds this weekend means an offshore foray is right on the cards. This is especially so with the dead neap tides, so...
Apr 15, 20202 min read
Alex's Fishing Column 9 April 2020
Easter is always a great time of year to go fishing. Notwithstanding the requirements to fish on your own, or with members of your own...
Apr 15, 20202 min read
Alex's Fishing Column 2 April 2020
It’s been another topsy-turvy week, but at least some nice fish have been caught. Shady Camp down at the mouth and along the coast...
Apr 15, 20203 min read
Alex's Fishing Column 26 March 2020
There’s not really much else I should write about this week except for the impact of Coronavirus on fishing. Currently in the Territory,...
Mar 19, 20203 min read
Alex's Fishing Column 19 March 2020
I’ve done some heli-fishing trips in my time, but the latest one last weekend would rate as one of the best. It was with the company of...
Mar 12, 20203 min read
Alex's Fishing Column 12 March 2020
It seems last weekend’s first round of the Top End Barra Series (TEBS) on the Daly River was a winner for many competitors. The Daly...
Mar 5, 20203 min read
Alex's Fishing Column 5 March 2020
Round 1 of the Top End Barra Series (TEBS) gets under way this weekend, and for the first time, the competition will kick off at the...
Feb 27, 20203 min read
Alex's Fishing Column 27 February 2020
It seems everything is coming together nicely for the annual Kakadu Klash which is scheduled for 2-5 April. Following the closure last...
Feb 13, 20203 min read
Alex's Fishing Column 13 February 2020
There’s some good wet season news at last: there have been reasonable falls out Kakadu way. Old mate Andy Ralph – a well-versed Kakadu...
Feb 6, 20203 min read
Alex's Fishing Column 6 February 2020
I won’t dwell too much on the wet season this year because we’re just not getting one… AGAIN! It was all looking promising with a...
Jan 30, 20203 min read
Alex's Fishing Column 30 January 2020
Plenty of diehard anglers hit the rivers over the Australia Day long weekend, but it seems most struggled to find fishable water, let...
Jan 23, 20202 min read
Alex's Fishing Column 23 January 2020
It sure looks like we’re finally getting a proper wet season. According to the Bureau of Metreology, by Saturday most of the Top End will...
Jan 16, 20203 min read
Alex's Fishing Column 16 January 2020
We just can’t seem to get the monsoonal downpours happening in a way that give us the best prospects of a great widespread Runoff. The ...
Jan 9, 20203 min read
Alex's Fishing Column 9 January 2020
Better late than never, it now looks like we are going to get a wet season after all. The impending Cyclone Claudia is wandering on a...
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