Get to the mouth of the Adelaide from here.
Need about 3m to get out of the creek, but the ramp is useful even lower than that.
About 100 minutes travel time, depending on how bad the corrugation is.
Category Archives: Fishing
Darwin Harbour – Boat Ramps
Lots of good boat ramps in the harbour, the two best are Dinah Beach and the Palmerston one, which are basically accessible at all tides.
Check out the government website
Although when it comes to Channel Island Boat ramp keep in mind they are LYING and I have emailed them to tell them otherwise. You need about 3m to access it, 3.5 to do it comfortably. You want around 5 to be protected from the breakwall. And importantly, when the tide is coming in, and the wind is in the right direction, you are being blown directly against the shore. Not so bad if you have enough water, but I smashed my transducer thinking I could get out with 2.5m given the website says “most tides”. Also I emailed them, they said they would change it, which they have not.
The harbour is generally overfished, especially for deep water fish like Golden Snapper. You won’t get as much here as if you travel, but of course it is so close….
Bynoe Harbour – Six Pack Creek
Heaps of different ways to fish and launch from Bynoe Harbour. I use six pack creek, which is 1 hour 35 from Darwin. People will say it is more, they are wrong. Google maps just has it REALLY badly. You need about 3 metres of water to launch and it is about 90 minutes behind
A place of endless possibilities, any type of fishing you like, you can generally find.
Leeder’s Creek Location
Leeder’s needs about 2.8m of water to get in an out of, I always aim for more. The drive is a bit under 90minutes depending on how bad the corrugated road is. It is about 90minutes ahead of Darwin tides. Good boat ramp, nice fishing spot, and you can camp there too.
Darwin Harbour Disappointment
Disappointment in the harbour! I guess you have some of these days on the water.
First: Second cast of the day I hooked a trevally, my totally lax drag fooled me into thinking it might have been edible.
Second: Soon afterwards Mud hooked a barra, hard to say size 50-60 so could have been table fish, to have it spit the hook at the boat
Third: Later in the day I saw something swirling up near a drain, soon enough I hook a barra 65-70 so a nice fish, he charged towards the boat, jumped at the boat, I kept a tight line, but about a second after getting back underwater he spat the hook.
Fourth: In desperation I headed over to where I got the fish in December to find there were zero drains… my only guess it was affected by rainwater last time, but I thought I had a secret spot but now I realise I’ve got nothing.
Got:
Me: Small Trevelly and smaller cod
Mud: Nothing
Story of the trip:
Probably losing that barra, but let’s be positive, zero boat problems, not much chop, no rain, mild day temperature wise, also launched from dinah beach so zero travel time.
Boat problems:
Nothing! Even better I realised that I am an idiot who wasn’t switching my batteries over last time, so the problems that I thought I had were incorrect.
Snap
Lost in the photobucket episode of 2017