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NTMAG Darwin fishing reports & tips for April 26

From the weather bureau ...

Huge tides this weekend and early next week. Dry season south-easter starting to kick in.

Tip
Go chase trophy barra at the small creeks in Chambers and Finke Bays - these huge tides might bring a last burst of action
Go chase mud crabs - huge tides, good for crabbing the tops of creeks, and good crab coming in reports from all over
If you must go reef fishing on these tides, go to Fog Bay, or fish shallow reefs on the turn of the high tide
Big tides should be good for trolling GTs and queenfish on the harbour rock walls on the incoming
High tides good for some landbased fishing

Reports
Barra Nats competitors say the Daly might improve this week as there was green water right up the top during the comp
South Alligator and Shady Camp are patchy
Loads of small sails of Dundee/Perons
Good spanish macks all over, but harbour water will probably be like coffee until next weekend
Hardies Lagoon open and producing fish

Good tip here from Shane Compain, and some comment from the Nats.

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Former Barra Nationals champion Shane Compain of fourth-placed Team Tackle World said the Barra Nats comp started well, but got slower.
"The mackerel trolling up the middle only worked on the bigger tides toward the end, and the river will probably fish well this weekend on the big tides," he said.
"By day four last week it had changed, the barra were feeding on small rainbows, then there was a flush of miniature glassfish and the barra became really hard to catch when they were feeding on them.
"The river is going to go off this weekend, it looks good, and there are big barra boofing and rolling, the fish are there.
"The size averages were interesting, you would get a 40cm, or a 60cm, or a metery, nothing in between.
"The first three days were the hottest I have experienced on a boat, I've never drunk so much water."

More in the Sunday Territorian this weekend.