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COVER: A classic clear-water bream, displaying the natural intelligence that makes them such a challenge. This character succumbed to a shallow running Chubby sent out on a long cast over a small patch of ribbon weed in a sea of sand. Photo by Scott Amon.
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Electric motors and shallow-draft boats are just part of the secret to smacking bream in clear shallows. They always put on a good show in the skinny stuff! 11
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This graphically stunning image captured by Martin Vivian Pearse really sums up the wild and woolly nature of Top End fishing at its finest, from the rampaging, metre-plus floodplain barra hooked in knee deep water to the handgun tucked into the airboat skipper’s back pocket as ‘crocodile insurance’! 37
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For Starlo, catching saratoga in Top End waterholes and streams was a real highlight of his stint up north. Photo by Al Simson www.kettafly.com 49
Plump brown trout like this are eager to crash-tackle large hard bodies, so don’t forget your bream lure boxes.
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The ferocity of the impending flames felt in every bitter breath as nature’s evil master draws near. Embers fly as day turns to eerie night.
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This tasty Rankin cod ate a bucktail jig ‘sweetened’ with a strip of bait — a popular technique in the tropics.
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