Rain brings on changes

Changes in the environment are affecting my regular fishing spots.

This 78cm barramundi was caught at the mouth of an urban creek. For Hiro Nakamura column

Changes in the environment are affecting my regular fishing spots.

The monsoon basically pours benefits upon us for barramundi fishing.

On the other hand, it’s the very wavy-sea season.

It’s a very difficult time to catch a sea barramundi around Darwin.

There was a solution to that before 2013 in my fishing locations.

I could catch some nice-sized sea barramundi at an urban small creek location in the rainy season in those days.

As an example, the 78cm sea barramundi pictured was caught at an urban small creek.

However, I haven’t been catching many nice-sized sea barramundi there recently.

I can see more soil and sand accumulated on the shore of the sea and the urban small creek bed after having been carried there by wind or water.

There are more shallow waters than before there.

A large amount of monsoon rainwater washes a large amount of soil and sand away from the shore, but large amounts of soil and sand are also deposited on the shore again after the rainy season.

I have noticed that the shores of the sea, including the urban small creeks, were getting shallower in my fishing locations year by year.

Someone told me even sailfish used to be caught (land-based?) at East Point in the old days, but I am not sure if this is true.