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ALEX'S WEEKLY SCRIBE 2025


Alex's Column 21 March 2025
Last weekend, 50 anglers competed in round one of the 2025 Top End Barra Series held from Shady Camp, including the coast and creeks from...
5 days ago3 min read


Alex's Column 14 March 2025
It looks like there were barra being caught all over the place over the past week or so. Not wanting to miss out on the action, last week...
Mar 144 min read


Alex's Column 7 March 2025
It was the catch of a lifetime for Kin (Akim) Lay, whose early morning fishing trip on Saturday 15 February turned into a whopping...
Mar 73 min read


Alex's Column 28 February 2025
Last week I wrote that the lack of serious monsoonal activity across the Top End did not stop many locations from achieved average or...
Feb 283 min read


Alex's Column 21 February 2025
I think we’ve all given up on getting a typical wet season, one with two or three significant monsoonal bursts, with blinding rain,...
Feb 213 min read


Alex's Column 14 February 2025
Now I know what a Clayton’s Monsoon is: it’s the monsoon you’re getting when you’re not getting a monsoon. That is pretty well the...
Feb 142 min read


Alex's Column 7 February 2025
By my reckoning, the monsoon arrived in Darwin at 5.00am Tuesday. I can’t remember such a precise monsoonal burst happening; normally, it...
Feb 74 min read


Alex's Column 31 January 2025
It’s hard not to commence writing this column without alluding to the lack of serious rain. Here we are at the end of January and still...
Jan 313 min read


Alex's Column 24 January 2025
Monsoon or no monsoon, it looks like we’ve been getting enough rain to break out the Runoff fishing tackle. You won’t get across to the...
Jan 245 min read


Alex's Column 17 January 2025
The onset of the first monsoon is now nearly three weeks later than normal, and it may not arrive until the end of the month. Normally,...
Jan 203 min read


Alex's Column 10 January 2025
Another Christmas and New Year have come and gone and, hopefully, you found some shiny new fishing tackle under the tree this holiday...
Jan 103 min read


Alex's Column 3 January 2025
I’ve just spent three full days fishing in Bynoe Harbour. We were doing a NAFA magazine apparel shoot, and stayed at delightful Crab Claw...
Jan 34 min read
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