Catfish #49 52cm Barramundi #1188 Queenfish #31

Sunday on December 23,
Location: Fannie Bay rocks
Fish: Catfish
Lure: Zerek Flat Shad 110mm
Lure colour: White mainly
The sea was slightly wavy.
The water was dirty with the coral spawn.
It rained heavily on the previous day.
The sea barramundi don't like this water condition on shore.
By contrast, the catfish will take lures in this water condition.
As expected, I caught a catfish.
The hook was bent and broken by this catfish.

Monday on December 24,
Location: Channel Island
Fish: Barramundi
Lure: Squidgy Pro Mongrel 90mm
Lure colour: Dark blue mainly
There was a dirty water with the coral spawn in a very shallow water side.
There was a clean water across the dirty water.
I cast the lure to the clean water side.
I used Squidgies S-Factor as a fish-feeding stimulant.
As a result, I caught a 52cm barramundi after 3 weeks.

Tuesday on December 25,
Location: Channel Island
Fish: Queenfish
Lure: Squidgy Pro Mongrel 90mm
Lure colour: White mainly
The water was very dirty with the fresh water as a result of the heavy rain on the previous day.
I had to cast the lure to a clean water across the dirty water.
I caught a queenfish.

I thought it would be best to concentrate on improving casting distance for the land based fishing on lure.

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Sunny and windy December

My fishing column has been serialized in NTNews and Sunday Territorian from 2012.
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On the other hand, I have never experienced such a sunny and windy December as this.
I found it difficult to fish barramundi in my usual fishing locations at the beginning of December.
The conditions haven't necessarily become better in spite of the steady sunny weather.
This steady sunny weather in December might have trouble fishing barramundi.
There exists no firm evidence.
Actually, this problem is unexpectedly serious to me.
The shallow sea is too wavy to fish barramundi every day.

I think that there are more windy days in December than in the average year.
In addition, the sea water was excessively turbid on shore.
I saw the mass coral spawn slicked on the sea surface.
The sea barramundi love the murky water.
I think that the sea barramundi don't like the dirty water.
The coral spawn on the sea surface itself doesn't negatively effect the barramundi fishing.
While there might be some exceptions, the sea barramundi wouldn't come to the shallow water when the sea water was clouded as with the coral spawn, especially in the wavy sea.

Washed up coral spawn at Mindil Beach.
There was a crocodile sighting along the Nightcliff to Casuarina Beach recently.
It's might be a healthy sign in the environment, however.
And yet I'm not convinced of it.
That's why I want to go fishing at Barramundi Adventures Darwin in these days.
Barramundi Adventures Darwin is a land-based, catch and release barramundi fishing farm.

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Unfavorable conditions

As a result, I haven't been able to catch any barramundi for a week.
There are some complex elements that are considered to be the cause of that.
As I wrote this last week as follows, a strong wind from the sea blows in the afternoon at this time of year in my usual fishing locations.
However, a strong wind from the sea blew in the morning too this last weekend.
It's not good condition for the land based barramundi fishing.
Saturday morning on December 8, I could traveled through many traffic signals without stopping to the Channel Island.
Strictly speaking, I stopped only one traffic signal on the way to the Channel Island.
I thought "I'm lucky today."
Arriving at the Channel Island, I found the shallow water was very dirty.
Normally, sea-barramundi won't come to the shallow water with many fallen leaves etc. floating at the sea surface.
There were many fallen leaves on the water.
In addition, I saw the floating spawns of the coral at sea in profuse amounts.
As a result, I couldn't catch any fish there.
It's very windy in the afternoon as expected.
Sunday morning on December 9, I went fishing at Mindil Beach rocks.
Unfortunately, the strong wind had already started blowing.
The seawater was very dirty.
I saw the floating spawns of the coral there.

As a result, I couldn't catch any barramundi there.
It's windy in the evening on Monday and Tuesday.
9 am on Thursday is the deadline for my fishing column in Sunday Territorian.
It's windy in the evening on Wednesday too.
Even so, I had to go fishing.

I didn't had any fish bites on my lures at all.
The rumble of distant thunder was a signal that a lightning storm was approaching.
The rain came down in buckets as expected.
I'm more afraid of the stroke of lightning than of the crocodile attack.
I couldn't catch any barramundi this last week after all.

Unfavorable conditions

• Very windy 
• Floating fallen leaves 
• Floating spawns of the coral

It cannot be helped.
Including this, such is the land based barramundi fishing.

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Barramundi #1186-1187 54cm Barramundi #1188 Zerek Live Shad Yo-zuri Pin's Minnow Zerek Live Cherabin

Do you think it will be sunny all day?
It is often heavy rain with thunder in this season.
Even if it is clear, it is hard to fish in the heat in the afternoon.
Also, a strong wind from the sea blows in the afternoon at this time of year in my usual fishing locations.
That's why I went fishing in the morning.
Saturday on December 1, I went fishing at Myilly Point rocks.
The seawater was very muddy in colour.
The tide was coming into the shallow.
Firstly, I used Zerek Live Shad 110mm having a white colour.
I believe that a white colour works for the milky water in the rainy season in lure.
As a result, I caught and released a small barramundi.

The level of the seawater was rising little by little.
Secondly, I used Yo-zuri Pin's Minnow 90mm having a silver colour.
It's a very reliable lure in the shallow water.
As a result, I caught and released a small barramundi.

When the seawater level increased further, I used Zerek Live Cherabin 100mm having a white colour.
I hooked a barramundi but missed that fish.
Soon, I hooked a better barramundi in size.
It's a 54cm barramundi.
As you know, 55cm is the minimum overall length in our barramundi fishing.
I released that fish.

Where: Shallow water 30cm - 50cm deep

Water: Murky / Incoming

Line: Surfix 832 30lb

Leader: Jinkai 40lb

Knot: The Albright Knot

Reel: Shimano Curado 150 DC

Rod: Redington Model CPX868C2 8'6" Medium Action 8-15lb 1/8-1/2oz

Clip: Force ten Stainless Duo Lock Snaps #2

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