Bag a Barra — 3 April 2026

It's time now to head to the Top End and Bagabara, with Glenn Watty Watt, thanks to Barefoot Fishing Safaris and Uniden, for the best in UHF communications, explore the extract series at UniDen.com.au. Now, I was flicking through my phone through the week, and this little note came up. Notice came up from Barefoot Fishing Safaris. Big news from Barefoot. With fuel prices through the roof and increasing pressure on operators to reduce emissions, we've made a big decision.

From July 26, Barefoot Fishing Safaris will officially transition into a fully guided CBD earth thing experience. That's right, no boats, no fuel, no fishing. Instead, we'll be running small group high-end grounding sessions right in the heart of Darwin. Reconnect with yourself and the earth through Barefoot walking sessions along the Darwin waterfront lawns, guided breath work overlooking the car park, mindful coughing, shipping oat milk only, deep listening to distant outboard motors, blah, blah, blah, blah.

After I hang on after a full review, we've realised the future of adventure tourism isn't chasing Barra. It's standing still, drinking a $9 latte. Why, what is this? Wow, we're just trying to modernise the business a bit, Duck, and you know, somehow something popped up on my, you know, like these self-helpy type things that earthing and wearing no shoes is good for you.

So yeah, we're just diversifying a bit, you know? We're proud to be launching as a 0 fuel 0 fish carbon negative experience. Early trolls have been promising. Although one participant asked, when were we getting on the boat and he hasn't been seen since?

are extremely limited. And for our fit new fishing experience, you'll be expected to dive into the Daly River with a net and go and catch your barrow that way. That's right, mate. You got to have a bit of fun with things these days, don't you?

I've got to say to you, I'm just looking for the photo of you here. CBD Earth, Earththing Experience, Barefoot. What the hell? What's the oat milk got to do with it?

Oat milk. What's oat milk? They get stuck into down there. those sort of places where they do earthing and that sort of thing, isn't it?

I've got no idea. Happy Easter, by the way. Yeah, you're having 8 Easter eggs. day for the other day as well. Oh, absolutely.

Actually, is that what that was? Was that an April Fools joke, was it? Did you think it was serious? Well, well, the part about the oat milk and not the, um, the oat milk and not, you know, the Great Northern Stubby or the VB, I thought, hang on.

something's going on here. So that was your version of April Fool's joke? Yeah, well, I nearly got stitched up the other day. I was reading the thing about how the $1000000 Barr was the NT news, the $1000000 Barrad being caught in a pothole in the road.

after one of the floods. I was like, what's going on here? I was getting enraged. Oh, hold on.

It's April Fool's Day. So then I thought, oh, well, I better get in on the action. Did you actually get anybody apart from me? Uh, well, there's been got a heap of engagement on social media.

So, um, you know, it's probably, it's probably good as far as that goes, but yeah, I, you, I mean, you probably get a few people for the 1st paragraph and then, yeah, then they'll switch on. As I read it and saw the oat milk and all this stuff and no fishing and no boating, I'm thinking. And then, yes. But you did get me at first.

I thought what is this? But anyway, it's very good. Well done. Mate, what's doing up there?

What, I know, lots of water. listen, I don't know if you know this. I saw a post come up on a northern territory organisation that put up a photo of a toll booth. I took a toll, not a toll booth, but a toll thing on the Stuart Highway.

That can't be. What a G-up, isn't it? That's got to be another one of those things. That wasn't on the 1st of April too, was it, mate?

You're a bit gullible these days, maybe. No, I'm only joking. I thought I was going to try and get you. No, I did see that one.

laugh because let me tell you, it was that page see you in the NT and I knew straight away. It was just straight away it was a J, that's CU N-I-N, the N-T, and I thought these bugs are all over this stuff too, aren't they? So, no, very good. Mate, what's doing fishing wise?

Tell us what's happening there. Oh, mate, it actually started to really fire just before we come down south for Easter, but yeah, my most recent trip, the fishing was really quite easy. Uh, so we'd had 4 or 5 days of nice sunny clear weather with no rain and the water level dropped a lot um, over the neat tides and yeah, which dragged a heap of bait into the um, creeks, the feeder creeks and and into the main river. And then over, as the tide sort of got a bit bigger and and could back that water up where you get sort of a real still river over the high tide, the fishing just went really berserk and it was really quite easy, you know, we did our last day of the last trip within 2 kilometres of the boat ramp and probably caught 40 barrow without hardly moving.

So, um, yeah, it's amazing to see, uh, just how fat and round, even the small barrow are right now after all that, um, Rain and Tucker. So, yeah, it's only going to get better and better, mate, from uh, from now on, right through, uh, we'll probably have runoff in Kakadu right through till middle of June, at least, I think, so, pretty exciting uh, year ahead for, for barrow fishing in the Top End. Yeah, and hopefully you'll get plenty of tourists up there as well. I know that's the current fuel situation and prices.

We put some pressure on the grain. I imagine the usual outback travellers. I notice a few places are struggling a little bit in regards to cancellations and the like. Hopefully things will rectify themselves soon.

It doesn't look like it does it at the moment, but certainly it would be a lot better if we can get over that so we can get some people up in the Top End touring around and going fishing and doing all those wonderful things that are on offer up there. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, it probably will affect the sort of half day and one day. Um, so operators.

If that, if that sort of general, genuine tourism drops off a little bit. I mean, um, the price of plane tickets and stuff's going to be something for people to be mindful of, if you're heading up here this year, you'd want to be getting them booked as soon as possible. But yeah, all my guys, they're all sorted. seasons booked out.

So, um, yeah, they've probably already got their flights and they're they're all rubbing their hands together. Um, looking at the amount of rain and what's happening just at the start of what, what essentially is the start of runoff right now.