Daly River NT
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Daly River NT
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22 Mohilla St Mt Eliza Victoria Australia 3930 ABN 60 834 752 005
Fishing Trip Reports
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Daly River - Northern Territory Australia
Although Dad and I were
originally scheduled to fish the Daly River at the end of March 2004. The big wet
delayed the trip by 5 weeks and we rescheduled for early May 2004.
We had arrived at Darwin
Airport at 9.30pm on a flight from Cairns. We did the essential shopping
and immediately drove the
230kms eventually arriving at the Daly River Crossing at around 1.30am.
After an uncomfortable nights
sleep in the car outside the Daly Crossing Pub we drove the short 14kms
down the Woolianna dirt road and arrived at
Woolianna on the Daly River at
7am. We unloaded and proceed to our hire boat and by 9.30am we
were in the water and trolling down stream. The water was on the
outgoing tide and moving quite fast with the 7.70m tide ebbing
Although many anglers were
catching 1 metre plus Barra trolling lures at the 'S' Bends some 18km
down stream. We continued to troll along the Golden Mile sometimes
stopping to float a Cherabin in many of the eddy's along this stretch of
river. At one location the float had not gone passed the end of the boat
before it bobbed and disappeared. The fish headed straight to the snags
close to the boat and broke free. I re-set the rig and drifted a second
large Cherabin along the same path with the float disappearing and reel
screaming as line was drawn off.
Fortunately this time the large fish headed to the middle of the river
were upon turning it's head it then headed straight back towards the
bank and the snags.
We trolled and hooked
considerably larger fish in the Golden Mile and 'S' Bend areas using
Tilsan and Lively Mullet lures in Green and Black/Red patterns. The
fishing was exceptionally good all week with a fellow angler catching
and releasing a 1.42m monster weighing in at 48lbs. Daily reports of
fish Our aim for the week was not only to catch big Barra, but to test the new range of rod and reels under development. This was undertaken quite easily and the rods and reels out performed our expectations.
On a further sad note - we received news Dad's Mum had passed away whilst we were fishing at the Daly River. A keen and capable Trout angler. RIP - Violet Hazelgrove (aged 88 years) |
Whilst
the run off was all but over by the time we set eyes on the Daly River
the fishing was still the best many had seen in years. We were in
Barramundi heaven.
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The river was magnificent condition and it wasn't long before Dad had
hooked and landed his first Barra a credible 62cm taken on a Classic
lure. The smile tells it all!
Retrieving the line furiously I stopped the fish
before the snags. It rolled creating a Hugh swell allowing me to
retrieve and draw the fish into the boat. It was a beautiful 92cm Barra
nudging 20lb in the old scale (this fish was revived and released
unharmed).
over 100cm were being reported. However on a sad note it was
disappointing to
see so many large fish not being released. We kept one 60cm fish for the
week and this provided 2 meals with large servings for Dad and I.