Only a short drive from Darwin you will find Leaders Creek. It’s only a 40ish minute drive, but you feel like you’re a million miles away.

Over 2018/2019 the road has been upgraded almost the entire way to the Leaders Creek boat ramp. The road to Leaders Creek is Bitumen all the way except for the last few kilometers, which is dirt.

There is a fishing lodge right next to the Leaders Creek boat ramp. I paid to park my car there in their secure compound while I went fishing.

My target species for the trip was Barramundi. I thought I had the tides all worked out and was going to catch heaps of fish. It didn’t quite work out that way, but I did catch one Barra.