So you have saved up booked your holiday to the Northern Territory for the barramundi fishing trip of a life time. The mission to catch the huge barramundi, that you have been dreaming of catching for years. You may even feel exceptionally confident of easily bagging your prized barramundi, since you are proficient at catching them in your local dam.

The main problems you are faced with when away on a fishing holiday are:

No1: unless you have an extended amount of time to work out the local conditions for barramundi fishing, you may struggle to bag that huge barramundi with your name written all over it.

No 2: It’s unlikely you will have your best fishing gear with you when you are away on holidays.

The last thing you want to have happen is to hook up the barramundi of a life time only to lose it before you get it in because the gear you where using wasn’t up to the job.

The easiest and quickest way to catch the prized barramundi is to go on a charter or with someone with exceptional local knowledge. If you are unsure which fishing guide to use I would suggest you head to the local pub and ask a few of the patron’s. You will very quickly be told in no uncertain terms, which are the best guide’s to go with.

The advantages of local knowledge are many, you can’t beat the knowledge of someone who fishes the area regularly. They know all the tips and tricks, which bait or lures to use, which tides to fish, what gear is required, what parts of the river or lake produce the quality fish, the list goes on and on.

Because the elements are so dramatically different between say Lake Awoonga near Gladstone and the Daly river in the Northern Territory. If you are used to fishing in Lake Awoonga you can’t expect to just turn up at the Daly river, go barramundi fishing and achieve the same results you are use to getting using the same gear and tactics and visa versa.

To me anyway money spent on a decent barramundi fishing charter is money well spent when you come home with the pictures of the huge barramundi of a lifetime that the charter operator hooked you up with.

The proof is in the pudding I suppose the picture below is of one of the guys I worked with on the Darwin LNG project. Having a look at the size of the barramundi he is holding do you think he was glad that he decided to go with a local charter??

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Caught in the Roper River in the Northern Territory on my second cast first time barra fishing. This was while we travelling around Australia in 2000.

We cleaned the fish and cut it into inch wide slices and shaired it with several other people who had set up camp for the night in the same spot that we were camping. It was the sweetest tasting fish we had ever eaten being so fresh. We could not keep any for the next day though as we did not have a fridge. We look forward to going back travelling one day and to fishing in the Roper once again!!

• Caught in Yellow water billabong Northern Territory
• On sunrise
• Gold Bomber lure

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The colourful communities of the Tiwi Islands in the Timor Sea are just a short flight or ferry ride from Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory. Having developed in isolation, the Tiwi brand of Indigenous culture is unique, and uses diverse mediums to tell its stories.

Visitors to the islands are greeted by brightly coloured homes and shop fronts, and significant totems. The art galleries on both Melville and Bathurst Island exhibit the traditional bark and canvas paintings as well as the more modern silk-screened cloth, woven accessories and pottery.

Fishing charters operate in the coastal waters and offer some of the best fishing around. Be sure to book ahead though, as these are hot spots if you want to catch barramundi, mangrove jack, black jewfish and Spanish mackerel.

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Katherine offers a wide range of accommodation, facilities and attractions, including museums, art galleries, character-filled pubs and historic sites. Other attractions within easy reach of the town include the Cutta Cutta Caves Nature Park, the Katherine Hot Springs and Leliyn / Edith Falls. 90 kilometres north of Katherine is the gold rush town of Pine Creek, a treasure trove of heritage bush buildings and mining sites.

Nitmiluk National Park (Katherine Gorge) covers an awesome 3,000 kilometres of magnificent escarpment country. Nitmiluk means ‘cicada place’ to the local Aboriginal people. The Katherine River flows through 13 separate gorges that carve their way through the Arnhem Plateau. You can canoe, cruise and swim between sheer cliffs to the sandy freshwater beaches of the main gorges, and view ancient Aboriginal rock paintings high on the rock faces. Waterfalls and rock pools are found along over 100 kilometres of walking tracks, beginning at the park’s visitor centre.

An hour south-east of Katherine is Mataranka, where the famous Mataranka Thermal Pool is found. Travellers can enjoy a refreshing dip in the pools, which are surrounded by the rainforests of Elsey National Park. The Katherine region also offers excellent fishing. The Daly River area is a fishing hot spot, as is the Victoria River area, which includes the Gregory and Keep River National Parks. Nearby, the small historic towns of Pine Creek and Timber Creek are well worth a visit. The remote Gulf region also offers a fishing challenge. Anglers can base themselves at Borroloola and fish the McArthur River. Cape Crawford is also popular with anglers attracted by plentiful supplies of barramundi. The Barranyi National Park, located in the Sir Edward Pellew Group of islands is a haven for wildlife, providing a home for nesting turtles and migratory birds.

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He also goes into detail about the rattle of a lure being more important than the colour. After all, as they say, most lures catch more fisherman than they do fish! I know from my own experience there have been times I have selected a lure at the tackle shop, based only on the colour looking good I’m sure I am not on my own there. The article isn’t just theory, as it is based on a recent barramundi fishing trip to Karumba. Keith and his son Matthew put these theory’s into practice and have the photo’s as proof.

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To view Keith Graham’s article on how to improve you barramundi fishing results with your lure selection click here. The article is titled “Shake Rattle and Roll and the Three Amigos”.

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Once you are armed with the skills to go out and bag your next huge barramundi, click here to grab your copy of this great pocket guide for tying knot’s that won’t let you down when you have that next horse on the end of your line!!!

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