Darwin Harbour

• So, yeah, I'm looking forward to showing you guys around Darwin Harbour and you know, you've got such a big variety of different species you can catch there as well, which is a bit different to sort of your billabongs and that sort of stuff where we've been in the past.

  Bag a Barra — 14 August 2026 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Are they popular up there? Jet skis? No, mate, there's half a dozen of them that blast around in Darwin Harbour as a bit of a tourist thing, but they're the only ones that I know of up here.

  Bag a Barra — 17 July 2026 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Where did you catch your Barra as a little 10 year old tacker? Um, it was on the Darwin Harbour somewhere.

  Fishing on Arvos — 8 July 2026 Fishing on Arvos

• Yeah, I've been getting a lot of reports back from Darwin Harbour. People are seeing the barrow up on the flats, which is really nice.

  Bag a Barra — 12 June 2026 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Uh, you know, spending as much time on the water as I have in the last 15 years, uh, it's a, he's sort of forced to do it from your clientele a little bit, but also my restless brain just makes me do it as well, you know, like I could never just be the Darwin Harbour Barrow guy because it sort of, it becomes a bit predictable.

  Guys in the Gulf — Ep 046 Guys in the Gulf

• So fishing is probably not as full on it the minute, is it? I mean, I mean, with Darwin Harbour, I guess, you could probably still throw a line in there, could you? But still, it's a lot of restrictions at the minute.

  Bag a Barra — 13 March 2026 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Plus, it's perhaps a bit closer to a big river and that might be it, you know, Darwin Harbour Barrett seems to be a bit of a nursery that may feedback and forth from Shoal Bay, but you just don't get those big numbers of bigger fish just randomly turning up in catches.

  NextGen North #63 — Glenn Watt NextGen North

• And they're right in Darwin Harbour, easy to catch. So, yeah, it depends like what category you're putting him in, Flyfishers would have Queenies up there in one of their top one or 2 as well.

  Fishing on Arvos — 18 February 2026 Fishing on Arvos

• And we've caught you out in Arnham Land, on Darwin Harbour, out off Dundee. I mean, it's fantastic to get you when you're on the boat, which is great.

  Bag a Barra — 30 January 2026 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• So it can be a bit hit and miss in that regard, but, you know, because Darwin Harbour is so close to everyone here.

  Bag a Barra — 9 January 2026 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Today, you'd be absolutely oily flat out there off Darwin Harbour or Dundee. It'd be amazing fishing out there today.

  Bag a Barra — 12 December 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• You can do a jet ski tour in Darwin Harbour. Yeah, perhaps we're a bit too close to a big river around here, which is full of snapping handbags, mate, so you don't want to be going around.

  Bag a Barra — 3 October 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• They probably take 10 minutes or so to get in, which is actually a really long time in fishing, so they are a great sport fish and right at Darwin Harbour there, right at the esplanade, 5 minute drive from the boat ramp.

  Bag a Barra — 26 September 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Even like the best crabbing around here is right close to Darwin Harbour. So, um, you know, like, and you can go out and catch 10 crabs in an afternoon session without too many troubles uh, most of the time.

  Bag a Barra — 15 August 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Uh, same at Mary River, and then other rivers, or daily might be the same too, but say, um, areas like Dundee, Bynoe, Darwin Harbour is 5 per person, and, and that's not a daily limit, so to speak, or it extends a bit more than that.

  Bag a Barra — 25 April 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• I've got to say to you, mate, the light show over Darwin Harbour was as good as the fireworks at Sydney Harbour or New Year's Eve.

  Bag a Barra — 29 November 2024 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• So, um, it's really good for our Harbour Barrows, Darwin Harbour and Bynoe Harbour, as well as for about 3 days every fortnight when you get the really clean water, real small movement in the tide.

  Bag a Barra — 8 November 2024 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Barramundi of all sizes are encountered in Darwin Harbour, but these smaller males in the 40 to 75 centimetre range are by far the most common, especially on the shallower edges that we were targeting.

  Darwin's best kept fishing secrets Starlo Gets Reel

• We caught one about this size of rubbish bin lit in Darwin Harbour one time. He took a long time to get in, Nick.

  Fly fishing Bynoe Harbour Peachy Fly Fishing

• We'll get gold, Trevellis come into Darwin Harbour and starts to really change things around into this sort of build up pattern, which is pretty exciting for us here in the Top End.

  Bag a Barra — 6 September 2024 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Down towards um the Daly River, and then further on, right through into the Kimberley, if you've got that much fuel, and and if you go back around to the right, up to the sort of the north and the east, that'll get you to buy no harbour, and then back into Darwin Harbour.

  Bag a Barra — 16 August 2024 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• What about back home? What's biting? You got much info there? Well, I happen, to be honest, because I've been busy doing my own thing over here, but, you know, like it's that time of year, where it's that cool time of year, when the plague just come in close to Darwin Harbour, so there'd be plenty of tuna in and around Darwin Harbour.

  Bag a Barra — 26 July 2024 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• We've got a couple of sort of mixed trips going for Barramundi and Bluewater stuff coming up and and the tuna are in Darwin Harbour already, I know, which is.

  Bag a Barra — 3 May 2024 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• So, mate, you want to, is this a, was this a guided tour or just out for yourself? Yeah, no, just a couple blokes up from home, so a little half day hit and run, 4 hours in Darwin Harbour.

  Bag a Barra — 24 November 2023 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• The ones that are in there are pretty cagey, and they do, they've got set traps right through Darwin Harbour and Shoal Bay, um, that they were, that sort of the parks and wildlife mob actively remove crocodiles from Darwin Harbour and Shoal Bay throughout the year up to about 300 a year sometimes.

  Bag a Barra — 20 October 2023 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• I was there in wintertime was, can you swim in very springs during summer? Uh, no, the, as soon as it starts flooding, they, uh, they do close it, uh, dropping that crops, um, start pushing further up from Darwin Harbour, um, where it flows into.

  Bag a Barra — 22 September 2023 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• They got bogged a heap of times, so they ran a bit late, but the party was fairly cranking, but by the time they did arrive, they crossed Darwin Harbour in an old 70 series land cruiser, which they converted to drive electrically, 7 kilometres up to 20 metres underwater.

  Bag a Barra — 11 August 2023 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• And, of course, he is the man behind, Barefoot Fishing Safaris, and, of course, angling adventures up there in the Top End, and I'm led to believe we've got our man, Watty, on a boat in Darwin Harbour.

  Bag a Barra — 4 August 2023 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• So I've never fished Darwin Harbour before. What are we sort of expecting to catch, mate? Well, I wasn't expecting the cold windy conditions for a start, mate.

  Darwin fly fishing — I wasn't expecting this Peachy Fly Fishing

• We fished, oh, actually, Darwin Harbour was a bit of a slow day, 1st day. It was a bit windy that day, so we sort of couldn't get out where we sort of, um, really wanted to, but, um, you know, that's, that's the way it goes sometimes, but, um, yeah, then into Shoal Bay, sort of dozen barrow in there, on the flats and a few other things.

  Bag a Barra — 23 June 2023 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Um, but I, yeah, I've done a few days recently fishing for myself and um, you know, just a few mates and stuff and the barrow fishing, particularly in Darwin Harbour, um, has been really good.

  Bag a Barra — 9 June 2023 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• It relates to Darwin Harbour. The original boat that I bought, and only sold a couple of years ago, was called Barefoot 2, and it was actually owned by Barefoot Marine, who was ran or owned and ran by Nigel Scullion, who's actually a former Northern Territory Senator these days.

  Bag a Barra — 19 May 2023 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• He's the man, and I'm led to believe we've got him on a boat on Darwin Harbour. Is it one of those, is it, is it an actual fishing boat you're on or you want some sort of a cruise, some raw drinking, you know, crown lager and eating prawns? What's doing? Oh, that'd be nice.

  Bag a Barra — 22 July 2022 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Actually, as to where this year's fish was released, and funnily enough, there's a bloody good chance of getting caught, actually, because the $1000000 fish remains active right through the year, and it was released for this season in Darwin Harbour.

  Bag a Barra — 10 June 2022 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• There was, I think another one from the Daly, and then 3 or 4 from just around Darwin Harbour, which very likely to be the ones that Santa let go there a couple of weeks ago.

  Bag a Barra — 10 December 2021 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• We had a really good sort of meat tides last weekend and then this weekend, of course, we go on to our big springtide, so we're in the harbour, um, fishing for some Barrier in Bynoe Harbour in Darwin Harbour, which is, uh, it's a really good time of you to do it.

  Bag a Barra — 5 November 2021 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• I actually, I, I think I, I thought I told you that um last year we, we jumped one off in, in Darwin Harbour.

  Bag a Barra — 24 September 2021 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• I've been a bit too busy this year, but do a lot of half day mud crabbing and fishing charters in Darwin Harbour, and uh, I know uh, that there's plenty of mud crabs getting around.

  Bag a Barra — 16 July 2021 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• We can do them a little bit longer, a little bit shorter, but yeah, we'll leave Darwin Harbour on the, say, morning smoker on the 1st day and and tow our guideboats behind the, the big boat tropic paradise.

  Bag a Barra — 30 April 2021 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• But there's certainly blokes that do it, not as many as there is over in Broome and Kimberley, but yeah, oh yeah, there's blokes up here, you know, particularly in Darwin Harbour.

  The Intermediate Line — Ep 80 The Intermediate Line

• He heads you out to Darwin Harbour. He gets you out the Corrobor Villabong, down the Daly waters.

  Bag a Barra — 1 January 2021 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• You know, Darwin Harbour particularly can get, can get actually quite dangerous out in the middle there if you, if you're caught in a storm and tide running against the wind and yeah, even in a big boat like mine, it gets pretty scary.

  Bag a Barra — 11 December 2020 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Oh, yeah, I mean, certainly, as long as the wind isn't too rough for you in your chosen area or whatever, but the beauty of Darwin Harbour, like we've mentioned before, is so huge, about 6 or 7 times the size of Sydney Harbour.

  Bag a Barra — 20 November 2020 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Um, and yeah, the other, the other guys have caught the, The single tag, red tag fish all around in Darwin Harbour, I think so far.

  Bag a Barra — 9 October 2020 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Um, I've got one tomorrow as well, and depending on the tides, we target all the different species of, the beauty of Darwin Harbour is that there's always somewhere you can hide out of the wind if it's windy, and there's always a species of fish you can catch.

  Bag a Barra — 4 September 2020 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Yeah, I mean, on the right tide with the right stuff in the right place and the right guy on the end of the rod, you can go and catch, you know, you can catch 20 barra a day in Darwin Harbour.

  The Segment — Glenn Watt, Barefoot Fishing Safaris The SegmeNT

• So you can be a Harvard cruise guru when it comes to talking Darwin Harbour cruises because you've done them all.

  Bag a Barra — 24 July 2020 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Now, listen, we want to talk about Darwin Harbour today because it's, I remember we spoke about Darwin Harbour affair while we go and some people may not have heard it.

  Bag a Barra — 26 June 2020 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• I mean, there are so many options in the Top End, isn't there? I mean, for fishing and, you know, you talk about these big billabongs and you've spoken about, you know, Darwin Harbour and the Mary River and the Daly River.

  Bag a Barra — 10 April 2020 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Mud crabbing is huge in Darwin Harbour hasn't been commercially crabbed for over 20 years, so the stocks are well and truly up there and the, um, it's, it's really easy throughout um, dry season in particular to go, go out for half a day and come back with, with half a dozen or 10 mug crabs and a few fish.

  Bag a Barra — 14 February 2020 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• What about that, eh? Easter Darwin Harbour out there trying to rule in Big Barras while he's talking to me on the phone.

  Bag a Barra — 22 November 2019 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• And I'll tell you now, one of the very best places to go and actually have a crack for these fish, and that's probably where we tend to focus a lot next couple of days, tomorrow I'll be out there, um, is Darwin Harbour.

  Bag a Barra — 4 October 2019 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Um, you know, very, you know, you can even do it in Darwin Harbour. We could see the Aquantas jets flying over the top here, you know, so we're really lucky up here.

  Bag a Barra — 24 August 2019 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• You know, Darwin Harbour for 4 hours, so like a bit of bait on a rock bar, catch people, snapper, and kids.

  Watty enjoys a beer with Starlo Starlo Gets Reel

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