Media Centre
Watty, on the record
The podcast, the sessions, the radio spots — and everything he knows about barra.
Media Centre
The podcast, the sessions, the radio spots — and everything he knows about barra.
The library
Radio segments, podcast appearances and the long-form stuff Watty teaches on the water — every one of them transcribed in full. Filter it however suits.
The tides to target, the fish to stalk, and the strip strike that sets the hook.
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When to cast, what to throw, and why slow-rolling a plastic is the high-percentage play.
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Bottlenecks, saddles and choke points — how to find them, and when to be there.
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River bank slips, flood plain collapses and slid mangrove edges — and when each one fishes.
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How to find a deep hole on a chart, read the tide on it, and fish it slow.
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Eddies and current edges — how to read them, where to sit the boat, and why the small ones matter.
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Reading mud flats on the chart, and working them down through a falling tide.
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Submerged rocks, channels and depressions — finding and catching barra away from the bank.
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Why points out-produce almost everything else, and how to read the ones nobody else bothers with.
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River and creek mouths — timing them on wind and tide, trolling and casting them, and picking a new creek.
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Rock bars, isolated rocks and rocky points — how to time them and how to fish them.
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Which snags hold barra, where in them the big fish sit, and how to fish them without burning the spot.
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Springs, neaps, the back of the moon and the rule of twelfths — planning your barra fishing around the tide.
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Mud to rock, weed to lily line, mangroves to beach — why barra hunt where the country changes.
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Cold snaps, warm mud and the midday billabong bite — how water temperature moves barra.
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Shelter in the cold, a staging edge in the heat — reading weed beds by season.
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The framework Watty uses to plan every session — Where & When, Wind & Weather, Time & Tide, Techniques & Tactics.
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A season-by-season guide — run-off, dry and build-up — and how to pick the trip that suits you.
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Every Darwin tide for 2027, colour-coded neap, building and waning — the planner Watty uses to line up the best sessions of the year.
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Watty’s weekly Bag a Barra segment on Oz Off Road Radio — 236 of them, back to 2019, every one with a full transcript.
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The Fishing on Arvos spots with Liz Trevaskis on ABC Radio Darwin — audio and full transcripts.
Listen & read →Every radio segment is transcribed in full — browse the whole archive, or jump straight to what Watty says about a subject.
Watch
Sessions and appearances filmed by Starlo, Peachy and a few others. Used with each channel’s permission — if you like what you see, go and subscribe to them.
More on the Barefoot channel.
ABC Radio Darwin
Wednesday afternoons with Liz Trevaskis and Rocky Edwards.
Every Friday, for years
Watty’s weekly spot on Oz Off-Road Radio — the full show archive lives over there. Pick a year below for the Barefoot segments, each one transcribed.
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The rest of it you learn standing on the bow with someone who's been doing it since 2011.
