Some days you can troll up barra two at a time on this amazing spot.

Mind you, if it fails, you can always slip down to the other rockbar and give that a good workout.

Further away from the sea along the Mary River system is magnificent Corroboree Lagoon.

By all accounts, it has been fishing very well indeed.

Fishing guides are putting upwards of 10 barra on the boat daily, and there are plenty of 80 cm-plus fish amongst them.

Not surprisingly, Kakadu billabongs are also starting to fish well.

I’m told they are full of barra and the warmer conditions are firing them up.

Darwin Harbour is another place where the barra have welcomed the change in the weather and anglers have been doing well fishing the creeks and gutters up in Middle Arm and in Wood’s Inlet.

Tides this weekend are ideal for a fish around the gutters and creek mouths in the Harbour.

There are also plenty of small to medium queenies and GTs in the Harbour and they can be great fun on lighter tackle.

You can usually find these fish off the rock shelves along the shore near Mandora and around Weed Reef which is out from the mouth of West Arm.

Talc Head at the entrance to Wood’s Inlet is also a good spot to try for a queenie or a trevally and it often produces larger fish so don’t fish too light there.

Out on the bluewater, there’s no sign of the mackerel leaving town yet, although the strong winds we are currently experiencing will make it difficult to access them this weekend.

This has been a fabulous year for bottom bouncers out of Darwin and there are still heaps of nice jewfish and golden snapper almost anywhere that there is enough bottom structure to get a food chain started.

Some anglers have been successfully targeting the jewies and snapper with a high-speed, vertical jigging technique.

You drop relatively heavy metal lures to the bottom and jig and wind them like crazy to attract the fish.

You’ll get plenty of exercise fishing this way and you need to hang on as this method will attract big jewfish as well as mackerel and other large predators that might be patrolling the bottom.

If you want to take things a little easier, you can always drop a bait down to these fish and you can’t beat fresh squid.

There are plenty around the coast at the moment and they can be caught relatively easily with a decent squid jig.

Just before the current blow, anglers aboard charter boat Tere Tiki had some exciting action.
The boat stopped on the way out wide when the crew saw some bait busting up on the surface.

They put out some floating pilchards and almost straight away one of the guests
hooked up a sailfish.

After a hectic battle the fish was boated but there was no camera aboard.

It measured a whopping 3 metres before release..............

The annual Barramundi Barracade (sic) will be conducted by the Fisheries Department at Corroboree Lagoon from Monday 5 September to Friday 9 September.
The Barracade has been used to monitor barramundi abundance in the Mary River system since 1987, and the results are published in annual report which is available from Fisheries.
Researchers block off a 450 metre section of Corroboree near Catfish Island , and all the barra inside are caught, measured, aged, tagged and released outside the block nets.
If you’re out at Corroboree during the Barracade, you won’t be able to get past the block nets, but remember that this research is being conducted wholly and solely for recreational fishermen.

Fisheries staff at Corroboree will be happy to answer any questions.