Alex's Column 30/12/21
We had our fingers crossed and old Huey delivered over Christmas with the arrival of a widespread monsoonal flow across much of the Top...
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NATIONAL Australia Fishing Annual
ALEX'S WEEKLY SCRIBE 2021
- Jan 6, 2022
- 3 min
Alex's Column 23/12/21
What we want for Christmas is more rain. So far this build-up season, we’ve had above-average rainfall, but now we want it to come...
- Dec 17, 2021
- 2 min
Alex's Column 16/12/21
This weekend’s spring tides are a whole lot better than those a fortnight ago, especially for Darwin Harbour arms. The low tide two...
- Dec 10, 2021
- 3 min
Alex Julius Column 9/12/22
The tides are slowing down at a mighty pace as we approach the weekend. I hit a harbour arm last weekend with friends and at one stage we...
- Dec 3, 2021
- 2 min
Alex's Column 2 December 2021
You can read the story on page three of today’s paper, but how clever is it for NT Major Events and SportsBet to slip another dozen...
- Nov 26, 2021
- 3 min
Alex's Column 25/11/21
This week’s AFANT AGM was positive to say the least. Foremost was the announcement by Recreational Fisheries Minister Paul Kirby that $7...
- Nov 19, 2021
- 2 min
Alex's Fishing Column 18th Nov 2021
There are good things and bad things about this weekend’s spring tides. On both Saturday and Sunday, the tides are almost identical, and...
- Nov 12, 2021
- 3 min
Alex's Fishing Column 11/11/21
Are we getting closer to a SportsBet $1 million tagged barra getting caught? Only last Sunday David, Nolan, who was fishing in Fog Bay...
- Nov 5, 2021
- 2 min
Alex's Column 3rd November 2021
Last weekend our Darwin tides were dead neap and there was very little current. In fact, on Saturday, there was a low tide of 4.1m at...
- Oct 29, 2021
- 2 min
Alex's Fishing Column 27th Oct 2021
The long overdue reconstruction of the Corroboree Billabong boat ramp meant competitors in the fifth round of the Top End Barra Series...
- Oct 22, 2021
- 3 min
Alex's Fishing Column 21/10/21
Well, it was fun and games a couple of weeks ago when I took two good friends of mine to a remote lagoon on a Kakadu floodplain. Melanie...
- Oct 15, 2021
- 3 min
Alex's Fishing Column 14th Oct 2021
For the most part, last week’s NT Billfish Classic was a success. Hosted by Darwin Game Fishing Club, there were 17 billfish tagged and...
- Oct 8, 2021
- 3 min
Alex's Column October 7th 2021
It was all happening last weekend: the NT Billfish Classic was held, the Top End Barra Series round four took place, the Top End Billfish...
- Sep 30, 2021
- 2 min
Alex's Column 30th Sept 2021
Million Dollar Fish Season 7 will be up and running from midnight tonight. Who could ever have predicted that this amazing competition...
- Sep 24, 2021
- 3 min
Alex's Column 23rd Sept 2021
I’ve always maintained build-up fishing can be every bit as good as during the Runoff. This goes for both tidal waters and inland...
- Sep 17, 2021
- 4 min
Alex's Column 16/9/21
One of my favourite barra rivers in the Top End is the Vic. The Victoria River is the longest river in the NT and its tidal reaches on a...
- Sep 10, 2021
- 2 min
Alex's Column 9 September 2021
As expected, last week’s Secret Women’s Business Barra Challenge was a resounding success. The iconic Corroboree Billabong served up two...
- Sep 3, 2021
- 3 min
Alex's Column 1st September 2021
The third round of the Top End Barra Series (TEBS) escaped the clutches of the recent three-day Darwin lockdown by less than two days....
- Aug 27, 2021
- 2 min
Alex's Column 26 August 2021
How exciting is it that we’ve had some super-early build-up rainfall? In fact, the official build-up – in my books anyway – doesn’t start...
- Aug 20, 2021
- 2 min
Alex's Column 19th August 2021
The tides this weekend are spot on for both estuary and bluewater fishing. We’re just coming off the neaps, so water clarity will be...
- Aug 13, 2021
- 2 min
Alex's Column 12th August 2021
The tides this weekend are a bit of an each-way bet, moving towards neap tides next week but still with a few metres of movement on both...
- Aug 6, 2021
- 3 min
Alex's Column 5th August 2021
How good is Manton Dam? It’s really our only major stocked waterway that is accessible to the general public, and at times is a great...
- Jul 30, 2021
- 3 min
Alex's Column 29 July 2021
Although the Top End is Australia’s barramundi fishing mecca, and the vast majority of interstate anglers who visit the Top End have...
- Jul 23, 2021
- 3 min
Alex's Column 21st July 2021
It’s been a tumultuous couple of years across Australia. For the Territory, lockdowns to other states have been all too common, and there...
- Jul 16, 2021
- 3 min
Alex's Fishing Column 15 July 2021
There’s good news for this weekend, and it’s not before time. After several weeks of blustery weekend conditions, the forecast this week...
- Jul 10, 2021
- 3 min
Alex's Column 8th July 2021
There’s not much respite from the easterly winds again this weekend. It’s been a hell of a dry season wind-wise. I suppose that’s to be...
- Jul 2, 2021
- 3 min
Alex's Column 1 July 2021
Once we get through this latest bout of Covid lockdowns, plenty of anglers will be looking at heading inland for a billabong barra fish....
- Jun 25, 2021
- 2 min
Alex's Column 24/6/21
There’s no doubt that this dry season is shaping up to be a mainly windy one. For most of last weekend, offshore you would have been...
- Jun 18, 2021
- 3 min
Alex's Column 18/6/21
There’ve been some chilly mornings of late, which is why I’m surprised that the annual dry season bream run in Darwin Harbour has not yet...
- Jun 4, 2021
- 2 min
Alex's Column 4/6/21
Conditions could not have been better for last week’s round three of the Top End Billfish Series. Unlike last year, when the early rounds...
- May 28, 2021
- 3 min
Alex's Fishing Column 27/05/21
How good is the dry season? Every year I seem to forget how great it is to get up to a mildly crisp morning, with zero humidity,...
- May 24, 2021
- 2 min
Alex's Fishing Column 20/05/21
The Daly River has certainly had its share of boat traffic this year. First there was the Girls Gone Fishing competition, then the NT...
- May 11, 2021
- 3 min
Alex's Fishing Column 06/5/21
One thing is for certain following the running of the NT Barra Nationals over the last week: the Daly River has been the recipient of a...
- May 11, 2021
- 2 min
Alex's Fishing Column 29/4/21
Given the cancellation of the NT Barra Classic last year due to you know what, it was great that this year’s event held last week was a...
- Apr 23, 2021
- 2 min
Alex's Column 22/4/21
It’s certainly all happening at the moment. We’ve just had the Great Northern Girls Gone Fishin competition, the Darwin Billfish Bash,...
- Apr 16, 2021
- 2 min
Alex's Fishing Column 15/4/21
The first real evidence of a river in revival mode occurred last week with the running of the annual Great Northern Girls Gone Fishin...
- Apr 9, 2021
- 3 min
Alex's Column 8/4/21
The expression “every man and his dog” sure applied to the big rivers over Easter. Given the conditions, dropping water everywhere and...
- Apr 2, 2021
- 3 min
Alex's Column 1 April 2021
Easter is always a great time of year to go fishing, as long as you appreciate that there are bound to be lots of 4WDs, lots of boats and...
- Mar 19, 2021
- 3 min
Alex's Column 18/3/21
BREAKING NEWS: There's good news re access to the Arnhem Land side of the East Alligator River. The Northern Land Council has advised...
- Mar 12, 2021
- 2 min
Alex's Column 11/3/21
As expected, there’s been some bumper early Runoff fishing over the last week. The Magela Crossing before the East Alligator River...
- Mar 5, 2021
- 3 min
Alex's Column 4/3/21
On the face of it, the introduction this week of a free registration process to access fishing spots across Aboriginal sea country until...
- Feb 26, 2021
- 3 min
Alex's Column 25/2/21
You can throw hard-bodies at the Bureau of Metreology until the barra storm over the Shady Camp Barrage, but I reckon that, in recent...
- Feb 19, 2021
- 3 min
Alex's Column 19/2/21
I stepped out yesterday morning to a bright blue sky and a completely different weather scenario to what I’ve witnessed for at least the...
- Feb 15, 2021
- 3 min
Alex's Column 11/2/21
I was definitely caught by surprise when I received a media release yesterday from AFANT CEO, David Ciaravolo, calling for urgent action...
- Feb 5, 2021
- 3 min
Alex's Column 4/2/21
I was just having a chat with old mate George Voukolos from Fishing and Outdoor World, and he was espousing his usual erudite views on...
- Jan 29, 2021
- 2 min
Alex's Column 28/1/21
It’s great that the rivers are back on the rise, in particular the Daly River which at time of writing was close to 6m above the...
- Jan 22, 2021
- 3 min
Alex's Column 21/1/2021
There’s good news and bad news about the weather this weekend. Starting with the bad news, it should be mainly fine, with no serious...
- Jan 14, 2021
- 3 min
Alex's Column 14/1/21
Following an early monsoonal burst across the Top End, the first runoff window of opportunity occurred over the last couple of weeks....
- Jan 8, 2021
- 3 min
Alex's Column 7/1/2021
The black tadpole run is something that happens spasmodically in the South Alligator River. Typically, it occurs when there have been...
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