Barra Fishing - NT Run Off

Advice from a person that stayed and fished from the Mango farm on the Daly and shady camp and caught nothing. If you are doing it just for the fishing, get professional assistance and get shown how to do it correctly. than do the trip yourself another time.
Still wouldn't swap the trip for anything though as one hell of an adventure. Couldn't afford the organised trip but would be worth it just for the lessons.

Honky

My wife,son and I have fished the Mary River system from Shady camp for a few years now using guides from Pt.Stuart Wilderness Lodge. We have had some spectacular trips(last year we each had 2 fish over a metre (up to1.8m) and some 100 fish each). Got back last week without a single fish for 3 days hard fishing-reason, no wet= no run off=no fish. No one was doing any good. My point is that we have fished the Daly in a hire boat without a guide with little success due to a lack of local knowledge and the same at the Mary river. It is long way to go and expensive to not catch fish. Get a guide who will know were/when/how to fish the local system and you will have a ball. Do it yourself in those systems and risk doing a prop on a rock bar,getting stuck for 8 hours on a quickly falling tide or worse( there are some huge lizards in that water). It,s not cheap but it's the best way to go. Check with the locals as to what sort of run-off they have had before you go.

Thanks for the feedback - we will rule out towing the boat in for this trip at least until we know where we are going.