Reef Fishing – Northern Territory Fishing All-Inclusive, All-Adventure Packages!
At Cape Don, Australia’s premier family fishing destination — we specialise in guided fishing tours in the Northern Territory’s best fishing location, giving you your greatest angling adventures in Darwin.
Fishing in Darwin Australia can gift you with a huge fishing haul, a vast variety of vibrant reef species and the best value fishing accomodation — all found at Cape Don with its bountiful, surrounding waters all year round.
Hauls typically include (but are not limited to) Coral Trout, Golden Snapper, Black Jewfish, Tricky Snapper, Stripy, Venus Tusk Fish, Spangled and Long Nose Emperor, Parrot fish, Cod and Qld Groper. Get ready for the Northern Territory’s remote fishing adventures at their very best!
These reef dwellers are found on or in close proximity to coral reefs, sand between reefs, rocks, bombies, gravel beds and the wreck. With hundreds of GPS marks your experienced guide will put you on the right spot at the right time according to the prevailing weather conditions on the day! (Best of all, most of these reef fishing spots are no more than a couple of kilometres off shore!)
Without doubt, this is the best way to do reef fishing in the Northern Territory.
Reef fish species are opportunistic marine feeders and respond well to jigging with soft plastics, homemade jig heads, heavy metals and the ever humble marabou jig! Our expert guides will employ any method to get you onto these glorious species (including bait fishing of course!) while anchored up or bait fishing while drifting! Sometimes it pays to use ‘bait to locate and plastics to ‘extricate.’ No self respecting reefie can resist a whopping great slab of mackerel.
Darwin reef fishing hot spots include Ardigbiyi Point, Ten Shoal, around Allaru Island, Vashon Head and Trepang.
Come and see why this is known as one of the top remote Australian fishing destinations!
The Cape Don team’s top three favourites — not only for their hard sports-fighting abilities but also their superior-tasting table quality:
1. Coral Trout
Brilliantly coloured, the Coral Trout is one of the most prized NT reef fish renowned for it’s exquisite fine texture and white flesh. Once hooked you will have to fight them hard and fast — otherwise they will make a mad dash back to the sanctuary of their beautiful coral reef and break you off in the process. Coral trout are a often sought-often caught fishing experience when fishing Darwin Australia.
2. Golden Snapper
This truly good looking fish, the Golden Snapper has a distinctive gold colour and can weigh in excessive of 10kg. Take care that you don’t give this powerful fish too much loose line because it will take you around a predictive snag. For eating quality, all of the Cape Don team agrees that this fish makes it to the “Cape Don Top Three.”
3. Black Jewfish
Also high on the list of a dream fishing catch for Australian fishing destinations is the Black Jewfish also known as a Northwest Mulloway. Known for their prowess once hooked they will send your reel screaming and leave you bruised and beaten by the time you get it to the boat. When they’re on the bite you may be left with sore arms following a sporting battle for marine supremacy.
