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If there is one thing that coincides with early Dry Season chilly mornings, it is the arrival of the northern pikey bream along our coastal bays and up the saltwater creeks. The pikey bream is found only in the tropics, and ranges from Shark Bay in WA, right across northern Australia and as far down the QLD coast as Rockhampton. It is different to both the popular silver bream found along the eastern seaboard from central Queensland to northern Victoria, and the southern or black bream found...

Judging by all the reports I’ve received about the great fishing happening during this year’s Runoff, it’s clear to me that most anglers are using soft plastic lures. That’s not to say that perennial hard-body lures like Bombers, Classics and Reidys are not catching their fair share of barramundi, but the popularity of softies has literally soared over the past 20 years and, nowadays, serious barra anglers will carry at least as many soft plastics with them as they will hard-body lures. In...

Some trips are gold, and the one friends and I did recently to Davidson’s Arnhemland Safari Lodge was nothing short of 24 Karat. Located at remote Mt Borradaile in north-western Arnhem Land, Davidson's Arnhemland Safari Lodge sits on a privately-leased 700 square kilometre Aboriginal-owned wilderness area adjoining the Arnhem Land escarpment. It’s about a 50-minute light aircraft flight from Darwin, with seasonal 4WD access available during the Dry Season. However, we opted to drive to Jabiru...