Fresh Australia Fishing Reports

Nice Red Emperor for this happy customer on our outer reef charter

Nannygai are certainly a favourite catch for our customers

What a truly blessed half-day adventure! Darwin Harbour gifted us an incredible blend of species—Black Jewfish, Golden Snapper, estuary cod, bluespot Trevally, a feisty small shark, and even a thrilling crocodile sighting! ?? To witness such wild wonders on a short trip left us in awe. But the greatest blessing? The big smiles and pure joy radiating from our clients. Moments like these remind us why we do what we do. Grateful beyond words for this unforgettable day!

While the wind is blowing dogs off chains up here in tropical north queensland, we have brought back our custom inshore boat and Our inshore / river charters have been firing ?.. so if you dont want to put up with rough weather offshore and would prefer to stay in the calm water please send us a message and we will get you out there ...

Nannygai are right up there as being one of the best eating fish on the reef

I took Zakk and his friends from North Carolina out on Sunday. Zakk was keen to catch his first Marlin. However, after the weather we’d experienced over the previous week I had no idea what to expect. The charts only displayed the ocean currents which didn’t look very exciting, with no info of temperatures. So, we were basically going out blind, not that I that I trust the charts implicitly, however they do give a good overview. I put the lures in at the Twelve Mile where there were a couple of boats jigging and headed out. The temperature slowly increased to 20.8C at the shelf and as it turned out only increased to 21C at the thousand fathom line. On the way out we saw nothing neither birds nor bait. But I get ahead of myself. Just inside Browns I marked a bait school it wasn’t very solid echo but I did a circle and as I straightened up Ron let us no in no uncertain terms that there was a Marlin behind the *Blue illusion. It hit and took a bit of line but no hook up. When this happens, I always keep an eye on the *Brad ‘J’ on the shotgun. I have found that all too often if a Marlin hits one of the closer in lures and is not spooked it will come in on the shotgun. Sure enough, this one did too and was hooked up solidly, as it turned out the hook went right though the upper bill. It was a long hard fight, the Marlin hardly jumped, saving its energy until Ron took the leader as you’ll see in the video. There was a bit of tag teaming but eventually the Marlin, a quite big Stripy was brought along side and with photo’s taken released. With the pressure off now I continued out hoping to find the Yellowfin which should be here now. At the thousand fathom line I turned around not having seen anything, noting the current was coming from the East, not a very hopeful sign, hoping we might find another Stripy around the shelf. Unfortunately, we didn’t find any more bait, nor saw any birds and with daylight running out it was time to head for home. On the way in we did see a couple of Whales which performed for the charter but conversely also a caution for me. Tight lies, Ivan • All lure used unless otherwise specified are Pakula Lures .