The place was stunningly beautiful, the baitfish were prolific and generally the water crystal clear, the charter was on behalf of Venture North clients and with the East Alligator unpassable last week Lenny and I flew in and used a couple of pretty ordinary tinnies to do the job.
Fishing was centred around pelagics lots of big Queenfish and Trevally Jacks on snags etc. Barra and threadfin were pretty non existent even though it looked really promising, there were some nice Blue Threadfin but not lots.
The tides are a lot smaller and the flats were very shallow which made my dropout tides pretty hard to work and not get stuck especially without electric.
The highlight wasn't catching heaps of fish, which we did, but the incredible view over water where the number of species, sharks, crocodiles just swam past for that alone its worth the visit.
You could spend hours watching the procession of aquatic life swim past then every evening a resident 4m crocodile would come ashore.
An estuary as diverse as this would be well worth another visit especially on tides building a little more, you can drive there if you have a week up your sleeve and camp.
Cheers Graeme
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