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Its been a while since we've had consistant hairtail in the harbour

But this year is throwing up some beauties!

THE COMPASS POINTS "TRUE NORTH".

The pure remoteness of the North Kimberley Coast has always put a mother ship trip through the area high on my piscatorial "Bucket List".

I've covered most of the coastal rivers of the NT and Cape York over the last 15 years, yet until now, hadn't found an option which provided enough non fishing variety to tempt my wife Trudy to join me in a North Australia adventure.

With the lure of 5 star luxury and the opportunity to witness some of the best examples of Wand…

Frigate Mackerel (Auxis thazard)
Common names: Frigates, frigate mack…

THE MAXI FISH OF THE MINI MINI
Destination Article on the Camp at Endyalgout Island and the Mini Mini River System.

Steve Starling wrote an interesting article in about November last year on his take as to which is the premier barra lodge in the country. Correctly, he pointed out that standing the test of time was something that few had managed to achieve, and that having water tight arrangements with the Traditional Owners for future years was essential for continued success. Steve's choice was…

I spent some time thinking about all the best Kingfish lures I had used over the years and tried to derive a common factor. SP stick baits, either unweighted or on a jig head, were high on the list as were flies. I used to think trolling was a second rate kingfish method but changed my mind on that after having great success trolling stick baits , single fixed hook jigs and very plain sp squid tube jigs with a single hook tied straight to the line. I don't do a lot of offshore work but fee…

Nick Martin (fishabout) and fishing partner Eisuke Kawakami managed to force their way into first place in the Sydney Yamashita Squdding competition, after running second after the first day.

Stuart Reid (fishabout) and Bryan Todd had led all the way from the bell on Saturday morning, only to be run down within sight of the line by a 1.25kg specimen landed by Nick and Eisuke for a bag of 4.575kg, trumping Stuart and Bryans second place bag of 4.14kg.

A few pics of last weeks successful trip at the new camp.

80 plus Black and Spot Tail Bass were caught, as well as many other species including giant mangrove jack.

Numerous bust offs each day on big blacks.

The frequency at which recreational anglers catch a given species can lead us to jump to conclusions about their abundance. Take for example a veracious predator like the estuary cod. When we first fish a pristine waterway we could be excused for thinking that they are in plague proportions. But its not long till their numbers dwindle and all of a sudden we realize that what we had mistaken for abundance was actually the fishes overzealous acceptance of our ang…