Top End NT / Since 2011
Fish the Top End with Watty.
No blow-in guides who don't know the water — at Barefoot, everyone fishes with Watty. Barra, sportfishing and fly, in the best country up north.
Top End NT / Since 2011
No blow-in guides who don't know the water — at Barefoot, everyone fishes with Watty. Barra, sportfishing and fly, in the best country up north.
As seen & heard on
Guided Safaris
Lodge-based trips, 3–8 days, in all the best locations. Beginners through to expert anglers — you're always looked after.
The best time to target both numbers of barra and big barra as the floodwaters drain. Lodge-based trips out of Kakadu's World-Heritage water.
More about the run-off →
The best dry-season locations up top, with a focus on Bynoe Harbour. All the big species, including sight-casting barra in clean shallow water.
More about barra & bluewater →
Run-off blind casting, dry-season sight casting and the build-up billabongs — with the Top End's specialist fly fishing guide, two anglers to a boat.
More about fly fishing →Launching later this year
Everything Watty knows about planning and landing barra — the 4 Pillars, tides and timing, and the full Top End Barra Secrets program — folded into one app. Register for the launch list and be first in when it opens.
No spam — just the launch news.
Hosted worldwide trips
Watty is also a director of — and very active in — Angling Adventures: hosted trips to far-flung fisheries like Bensbach PNG, Christmas Island, Alaska and Costa Rica. If they haven't been there, they won't send you there.
Meet Watty
It started on the farm in western Victoria with Dad and some nice reddies, around 1983. These days it's the Top End — and Barefoot is about making your NT fishing adventure unforgettable: fun, adventure and quality fishing, with a guide who genuinely knows the water.
"Everything you look for in a guide — wise, calm, encouraging and entertaining."
— TripAdvisor review
Book a safari
Trips book out up to two years in advance — check what's open first, then tell me about your crew and I'll come back with the best windows still going.
Out on the water most days — if I don't pick up, the form's the fastest way to get me.
