Fishing in Kakadu April 2009

I recently spent a fortnight in the Northern Territory. A week of this was spent at Jabiru, the site of a Uranium mine. Jabiru is a lovely mining town and I was invited to stay there with a good friend Chris Suitor who is a Project Manager at the mine. My fishing mate was Tony DeGroot. He has the reputation of being one of the best fishermen in the area. I can vouch for that as well. "The runoff" as the wet season conclusion is called was disappointing due to the lack of heavy rainfall. The fishing was therefore not a spectacular as normal. But we did get a couple of nice fish as you can see.
The shot above is one of Tony as we head down the East Alligator river in Kakadu.


Tony was the first to score a decent fish. Here he is with a Barramundi which is close to a metre long. We release all fish caught. You are allowed to take a "Limit" but we prefer to let them go. Kakadu National Park is on one bank of the river while Arhnem Land is the other bank.








My best fish for the trip was this 80 cm Barra from the South Alligator.












A nice shot of the sunset over the East Alligator River as Tony brings us back home after a hard days fishing.