How to fish it
From 25 segments across the archive.
Fly in the Top End — where it works and where it doesn't. Every quote below is from a real segment — follow it through for the audio and the full transcript.
My old man said to me, do not get into fly fishing. And I like I went to the to Northwest Sports and Marine in Horsham in, you know, 1989 or something and I bought the $100 combo and a book of how to cars to fly rod and I did it on the lawn at the farm.
Guys in the Gulf — Ep 046 Guys in the Gulf
Like, even if we do it a lot with fly fishing where the results on the board at the end of the day are really dictated by the skill of the actual angler.
NextGen North #63 — Glenn Watt NextGen North
Yeah, we, we, um, we're connected up with Hurley's fly fishing down in Lumsden, just an hour south of Queenstown and and Gavin's been, he's actually from um, Australia and he's been running guided fishing trips over here for 20 years.
Bag a Barra — 23 January 2026 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio
So we're going to take a slab of beer over to Hurley's fly fishing and see what sort of mischief we can get into there before they close the shop and then, yeah, sort of go from there.
Bag a Barra — 26 December 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio
A milkfish? What the hell's that? Milkfish duck? Yeah, they're a bit of an unknown unless you're into your, well, sport fishing here in Darwin as well as the fly fishing mean, or fly fishing community around the world, uh, rate milkfish fairly highly as a sport fish.
Bag a Barra — 26 September 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio
So that's sort of what we're looking forward to, especially doing what I'm doing right now trying to spot fishing clean water and and fly fishing and stuff.
Bag a Barra — 5 September 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio
It was wonderful to be back out on the harbour, headed for some fly fishing spots, and especially satisfying to be sharing it with fellow flyfisher and friend Steve Peach of the Peachy Fly Fishing Channel on YouTube.
Darwin's best kept fishing secrets Starlo Gets Reel
For a lot of us Aussie fly fishing nuts, and I imagine for many overseas anglers, too, the idea of the big tropical saltwater fly fishing trip is a recurrent fever dream, one of those bucket list items that just has to be ticked off at least once.
Fly fishing Bynoe Harbour Peachy Fly Fishing
Don't forget to check out Peachey's Fly Fishing Channel on YouTube too. And if you enjoyed this one, hit the thumbs up down below.
Surface action on saratoga and tarpon Starlo Gets Reel
I mean, you're doing a bit of fly fishing with us, which I certainly was never going to have a go at that because, you know, it would have happened.
Bag a Barra — 23 August 2024 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio
Now, there's been fly fishing. a bit of an after that, isn't there? You've still run on the courses, because it is an art to that fly.
Bag a Barra — 8 September 2023 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio
A visit to fishing in outdoor world, got me some local info about where I could do a bit of land-based fly fishing for a morning in the city.
Darwin fly fishing — I wasn't expecting this Peachy Fly Fishing
Um, but that'll change things around, but we had a, I did a half day fly fishing on the harbour there a couple of days ago as well, and yeah, um, climb hooked.
Bag a Barra — 19 May 2023 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio
Now they had the territory freshwater fly fishing open on the weekend just gone and caught.
Bag a Barra — 5 May 2023 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio
We've got a really nice trout fishing fly fishing lodge over there called Owen River Lodge that we booked for as well.
Bag a Barra — 9 December 2022 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio
It's one of my um, sort of uh, main sort of program trips that um, that we do these days where there's a fly fishing trip actually, so there's 2 boatloads of 2 per boat.
Bag a Barra — 2 September 2022 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio
Yeah, they're going, they're there to do some fly fishing for various different salmonoid species.
Bag a Barra — 17 June 2022 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio
I've got a heap of fly fishing chargers on this year, so I'm trying to get that all sorted out before we get too busy.
Bag a Barra — 28 January 2022 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio
I just finished a job actually um with a guy from Melbourne who came up and did 66 days of fly fishing and um, you know, it's, it's sort of a different level of fishing where it's more, uh, it's more about the, the act as a whole than it is about, sort of going out and just catching eggs efficient.
Bag a Barra — 20 August 2021 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio
Yeah, we just finished that 2nd trip of the year and I'll line up again in a couple of days time to take some guys fly fishing for a week.
Bag a Barra — 5 March 2021 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio
Well, I think, and, and, you know, like, you're, you're dead right that it's, it actually is fly fishing that engages you with the animal to a point that you feel empathy for it more than, if, if I'm trolling a 17 a green bomber at 15 K's an hour at the mouth of Shady Camp and I hook a metre 20 barra.
The Intermediate Line — Ep 80 The Intermediate Line
So what happens there? So you're just camping? No, no, so we stayed, um, when we're fishing Bynoe, we generally stay at, um, Crabclaw Island Resort for the fly fishing stuff, and we can, you, you're right on the beach there, and you can leave the boat in the water, which is a big advantage.
Bag a Barra — 28 August 2020 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio
But particularly, when we're doing our barrow fishing, say, for example, the guys I spoke to yesterday, they, they, um, fly fishing clients, and they like to be able to the fish before they actually cast at them.
Bag a Barra — 24 April 2020 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio
It's actually illegal to go fly fishing in Singapore, um, but they do have a couple of fly, uh, dedicated fly fishing tackle shops over there, so they tend to bounce around the world to do their trips and and if we can be over there and in their face, um, they'll bounce to us.
Bag a Barra — 6 December 2019 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio
And then the next one, I guess, which is sort of following my fly fishing routes is those big tarpon over in Mexico and southern US.
Hooked — Ep 5, Barefoot Fishing Safaris Hooked podcast