Given that the winds won’t be too strong and there is no monsoon in sight, there are plenty of fishing options over the next few days...

It’s still up in the air as to whether it’s going to be a wet Christmas. The BOM website doesn’t forecast as far as Christmas Day, but...

It’s certainly the end of an era in popular radio fishing news, information and downright buffoonery. The ABC’s Tales From The Tinny will...

I’ve written it up before but, for my money, there’s no better estuary barra tide than a making spring. That’s exactly what we have this...

If you can make time this evening, you might want to grab the opportunity to attend the Amateur Fishermen’s Association NT AGM and learn...

The combination of perfect sea conditions, an abundance of hungry marlin and sailfish, and 14 teams with plenty of billfish nous between...

It’s been a long time coming but still so sad when it happens. I have two best mates in life and one of them, Wayne Eccles, “The...

The recent full moon certainly didn’t dampen the quality of fishing in the sixth and final round of the 2023 Top End Barra Series (TEBS)....

By all accounts, last week’s 35th Palmerston Game Fishing Club’s annual Corroboree Park Challenge was a humdinger. The major sponsor is...

We’ve got big making spring tides and a full moon this weekend, so that opens a Pandora’s Box of fishing options. Saltwater barra fishing...

If last weekend’s penultimate round of the Top End Billfish Series is anything to go by, next month’s NT Billfish Classic should be a...

Wasn’t September a funny month weather-wise? Conditions are normally humid and hot with light winds, if any at all, but the...

It’s not by coincidence that the Top End Barra Series held its fifth round for the year inside and around the Adelaide River mouth. This...

I generally write this column on a Tuesday, and today the wind is blowing yet again. It’s not as strong as it was last weekend when most...

Thanks to relentless blustery winds last week, the annual Territory Saltwater Fly Fishing Challenge was exactly that: a challenge. Held...

The announcement last week that the participation rate of women who go recreational fishing in the NT has edged out the men coincided...

Last week’s round four of the Top End Barra Series (TEBS) was always going to be testing given the relentless south-easterly winds this...

With the exception of the pandemic closures, each year I attend the Australian Fishing Trade Show held on the Gold Coast. This is the...

The next full moon is exactly two weeks away, falling precisely at the start of the build-up season when freshwater barra start to be...

One thing you hear a lot about when chatting with anglers who have been offshore blue water fishing is the significant prevalence of...

We’ve had a fair bit of windy weather so far this dry season but, unusually, there haven’t been nearly as many chilly mornings as you’d...

It’s just over two months away when the ninth season of Million Dollar Fish kicks off. It’s testimony to the success of MDF that it has...

I thought last week’s NT News article – “To cull or not to cull our beloved Territory icon?” – was a balanced and comprehensive coverage....

Don’t you just love the word “boof”? It’s been around at least 30 years and is vernacular for the noise made by a barra feeding on the...

The winds were relentless last weekend, frustrating many anglers looking for some blue water action. However, as the winds abated...

I must admit it’s great that the big wet this year flushed most of the salvinia out of my favourite Top End billabong: 4 Mile Hole. I...

It’s always good to wake up to a fresh dry season morning in the Top End. Sometimes it’s a bit cooler than we’d like, but it certainly...

It’s not often that a new fishing tackle product is developed that is both simple and functional, and fixes an age-old, in-the-field...

It’s the King’s Birthday long weekend this week and, to celebrate, the fish are biting all over the place. For starters, the East...

There’s nothing like a chilly dry season morning to remind you that you’re still alive. That first cool day in May – the month it always...

An overdue weekend of glass-out conditions greeted competitors in last week’s round three of the Top End Barra Series (TEBS). Held in...

On several counts, history was made last week when Shane Compain and his Tackle World team had yet another resounding victory in a Daly...

It was good news for competitors in last week’s Territory Freshwater Fly Fishing Open which was hosted by Darwin Fly Rodders on iconic...

It really was no surprise when Shane Compain, Terry Ryan and Bryce Neal – in the invincible Tackle World Revos – completely dominated a...

To quote old mate Peter Dienhoff: “Hello dry season”. Peter was texting to let me know that Darwin Game Fishing Club’s Dundee Billfish...

There are just five days remaining if you want to have a say on the future of NT recreational fishing for the next 10 years. NT...

Given the timing with the Daly River dropping quickly to below 2m above the crossing over the last fortnight, it was no surprise that the...

You’d expect an uproar and total rejection of any suggestion to reopen the Shady Camp fishing grounds in Chambers and Finke Bays to...

By all accounts, round one of the Top End Barra Series (TEBS) was off to a flying start. Originally scheduled for the Daly, a rising...

It’s a bit of a head spin, and I can’t believe that I’m sitting here now, writing about four decades of contributing this fishing column,...

The monsoon is well and truly with us, much to the delight of all Top End anglers. It’s been raining across all our major catchment...

It’s now nearly the end of February and we are in desperate need of a lot more rain if this wet season is going to be at all meaningful....

Surely a SportsBet tagged barra worth $1million will be caught soon in the NT’s lucrative Million Dollar Fish competition which is now...

There’ve been mixed reports of late, with some anglers getting amongst the fish and plenty missing out. Old mate Stuey Brisbane from Daly...

Rather than bang on this week about the need for more rain right across the Top End, it’s good to see the Mary River catchment copped a...

As I write this on Tuesday, there’s quite a bit of rain around thanks to the tropical low that formed off the north coast. Sadly, it’s...

The vagaries of our Top End wet season never cease to amaze. One minute we are looking forward to a bumper Runoff season thanks to record...

Those great early rains have certainly left a legacy of floodwater across much of the Top End. Old mate Andy Ralph always has his fingers...

Darwin anglers received a great Christmas present with the arrival of widespread monsoonal flow across much of the Top End. The plight of...