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Dennis Smart

Dennis Smart

Dennis Smart is a financial advisor and owner-director of Smart Financial Services NT in Humpty Doo, Northern Territory, and Vice President and Life Member of the Amateur Fishermen's Association of the NT.

Aug 21, 2026

6:06
What's some of your favourite local spots and why?
6:09
Um, well, there's lots of them.
6:11
I mean, that's the good thing about Darwin and the Territory.
6:13
It doesn't matter what the weather's doing, what the wind's doing, there's always somewhere that you can go out and have a go.
6:18
And you can always change your mind on the morning, even if you've got the boat ready to go to a different spot.
6:23
The local harbour has been absolutely amazing over the years with all the different fish that come in and out of there.
6:28
And depending on how the wet season... works the vernon islands is probably one of my and gunpoint and the blue holes is probably one of my favorite spots i've been going there for over 30 years and it's not very often that you don't go there and catch more than 10 different species of fish and all different sizes and you just don't know what you're going to encounter as well as the wildlife and the turtles and the stingrays and i've seen dugongs up on the reef And as well as other boats stuck up on the reef that haven't quite timed the tide and helped them get off.
11:27
Dennis, what are some of the changes you've noticed in fish, in water or habitat since you started fishing in the Territory? Have you got any concerns?

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