Glenn on fishing status

I have a couple of points to add.

I fished c'rob a couple of weeks ago and I can tell you that one of the main smells is rotting cat fish. I have photos of dead catties floating everywhere from the boat ramp right up to the junction at palm lagoon, if only you could get that far. the lillys have grown over so much of the billabong that they have totally covered both cut throughs to the rock hole, and from catfish towards palm lagoon. i was surprised to not see any barra amongst the dead, perhaps they die first and were eaten already or perhaps they got the hell out of dodge as things went foul.

My prediction for c'rob this year is going to be the year of the weedless, be it fly or lure. trollers will have lots of trouble if something doesnt wipe out all the big lillys. there where however huge schools of tarpon everywhere and I mean big tarpon, 50cm jobs, on the chew too. we had a great little comp.

The following weekend I fished the south. i caught up with a few blokes the night before in the resort including Darren nichols who spends more time on the south than anyone and at that stage the only place fish were being caught was right up the top of Nourlangie and the main arm to the rope at yellow waters. we ended up with 7 fish to 73cm that day and only fished about 4 hours.

It will get flogged to foam this weekend but there is still good potential there. just watch out at the mouth of nourlangie creek as all the rock bars were still silted up and it was very shallow on low tide.

Last weekend I took a few mates to probably my fav spot in the NT at this time of year, finnis flood plain. 

we just grubbed the boat in the mouth of the finnis on a 2.2m low and headed straight up the top.

three hours later 17 barra to 75cm and as many big tarpon as you could poke a 5 weight at. the tarpon ball up bait and behave just like tuna up there, birds and all. its awesome. the barra are solid gold with bright red eyes. JoStarling used to recon they were devil barra! and they fight like it too.

 If I was swathing this weekend ( and Ivery well might be) thats where I would be as early asIcould!

Slowly getting my big 6.7m southwind fitted out for guiding this year which is exciting so I'll hopefully catch a few of you on the water soon.

let me know if you are heading finnis way and we can buddy up for a bbq lunch!

Glenn Watt
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