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What Watty says about…
Seven years of radio, sorted by what he was actually talking about.
By subject
Seven years of radio, sorted by what he was actually talking about.
Dundee Beach and the country either side of it.
Read what he said →Fishing inside the park — permits, seasons and the systems that matter.
Read what he said →The harbour on Watty's doorstep, and how it fishes through the year.
Read what he said →One of Kakadu's big tidal systems.
Read what he said →The barrage, the tides and why it fishes the way it does.
Read what he said →Cahills Crossing country and the East Alligator run.
Read what he said →Close to town, and a system with its own rules.
Read what he said →Mary River system — floodplain, barrage and coastal reaches.
Read what he said →The Daly, and the April run that draws everyone.
Read what he said →What the wet does to the country and the fishing.
Read what he said →Clearer water, harder fish, different game.
Read what he said →The season Barefoot is built around — water coming off the floodplain.
Read what he said →Landlocked water, and what lives in it.
Read what he said →Hot, still and building — the lead-in to the wet.
Read what he said →Where the water goes, and what follows it.
Read what he said →Monsoon troughs, big weather, and fishing around it.
Read what he said →Springs, neaps and the moon — the pillar that decides most Top End sessions.
Read what he said →Fly in the Top End — where it works and where it doesn't.
Read what he said →Placing a lure where it needs to be.
Read what he said →Timber, structure and getting fish out of it.
Read what he said →Sinking lures and how Watty works them.
Read what he said →When trolling beats casting, and why.
Read what he said →Freshwater surface fish with a bad attitude.
Read what he said →Fast, aerial and everywhere in the dry.
Read what he said →Fingermark — structure fish worth targeting.
Read what he said →The other barra — and often the better eating.
Read what he said →Small, tough and perfect on light gear.
Read what he said →Taxmen, and how to fish around them.
Read what he said →GTs and their cousins on the blue water.
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