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The Katherine River |
Through the late
90’s I travelled annually to the Top End. Highlights were many but
paddling a canoe down the Katherine river and accessing and fishing Billabongs
seldom fished and pulling barramundi out of narrow channels overhung with
pandanus really stand out.
As you sit on the canoe and look up to see
a log and other debris in the uppermost limbs of a towering gum it is
difficult to comprehend the volume of water that flows through here in
the wet.
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| The fish weren’t huge but were a regular
catch, made all the more exciting by the surroundings and fishing from a
canoe. |
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| Size doesn’t matter |
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Sometimes to catch any
fish can really make your day. This tiny Trevally was caught on a Clouser
Minnow off the FAD just above my hand. The locals had caught tuna off
the same FAD over night. When I was told this the adrenalin levels jumped
but after we had negotiated the use of a local fishing boat and motored
to the FAD I was getting quizzical looks, thinking it was because they
had not seen fly fishing gear before I thought little of it until my interpreter
told me that the Tuna were actually 200metres below us! |
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To catch this fish was
a buzz as most of the fish at the market were of this size, apart from
one or two Mahi mahi, Tuna and a Barracuda. The beautiful fringing coral
reefs lacked one thing, fish over ten centimetres! |
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