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| Early sunrise |
Again it was a 5.15am get up to be at the boat on time. On arrival our fishing expert Rob was there ready to go. The boat was probably 28 ft aluminium, high sided punt style with additional cage protection, Crocs can jump pretty high, twin 40 Honda 4 stroke and plenty of room on the casting deck. Rob only takes 4 fishing on each trip hence the wait time to book your trip.
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| Rob preparing his boat and providing the essential safety run down. Note the high sided bulwarks. |
Rob also supplies all of the rods,tackle etc and there is no bait fishing allowed.
It was not long and all four fisher people were on board, a husband and wife, one young bloke (Dr by profession) and myself. So off we set as the sun was rising for our 3 hour sortie. I must admit once the fishing started it was not possible to photograph too much as it was full on fishing with lures.
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| The bow casting platform |
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| Good safety railings |
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| Whistling Ducks decide it is time to leave as we arrive for fishing! |
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| This Intermediate Egret decided it was time to leave when the croc below told us where the Barra were! |
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| A Jabiru was inquisitive to what we were doing! |
Three hours later, after fishing the same waters we encountered on the early morning cruise, we returned with one Barramundi of size (580mm, 30mm over the limit) between us. All tired but very happy. We all also dropped some barra and other chopper type fish. But what a great experience.
Dallas took this shot of my Barrafridi back at the camp. We baked it in the "ZEE and BEE" in Howard Springs and what a dish it made. Absolutely scrumptious! One more fillet in the freezer to have later. Thanks Rob for such a great morning of fishing and good tution!
Down to business, we had to be out of our caravan spot by 11.00am and heading off to our new site at Howard Springs, Darwin.
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