The floodplain

• They don't really have floodplains like we do because they have a lot of saltwater intrusion.

  Fishing on Arvos — 8 July 2026 Fishing on Arvos

• We had some pretty cool mornings, the last few mornings, mate, down to about 16 degrees as we drove out this morning, so let's drop the water temperature of the, or the, the temperature of the water coming off the floodplains and cooled things down.

  Bag a Barra — 29 May 2026 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• So, yeah, water temps up on the floodplains are nice and high and there's so much bait around that, yeah, right now, especially as we come into these big tides over the weekend, the fishing should really fire up on, well, all of these Top End rivers over this weekend and then into next week as well.

  Bag a Barra — 1 May 2026 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Once it really warms up nicely on the floodplains and all those frogs and tadpoles and rainbow fish have another little breeding cycle over that full moon, we've just gone through, that sort of doubles that bait biomass again on the floodplain.

  Bag a Barra — 10 April 2026 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• The last couple of neap tide days just allowed the south to really drain out quite fast and it pulled a heap of bait off the flooded floodplains into the main feeder creeks and the main river.

  Fishing on Arvos — April 2026 Fishing on Arvos

• You know, you get this huge expanse of really nice warm water out over the floodplains where all those smaller bait fish species and frogs and yabbies and all that sort of stuff can breed up and that, that's all that tucker that all those baby barrers and, and everything else wants to munch on.

  Bag a Barra — 27 March 2026 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Yeah, yeah, because it's just floodplain drains. It's like the top of the moil in May, right? So you can, like, you drive down to these massive creek junctions, hop out.

  Guys in the Gulf — Ep 046 Guys in the Gulf

• And when the water is high and cool like this, the South Alligator River floodplain fishes really well, whereas, you know, Shady Camps, a bit of an inland sea.

  NextGen North #63 — Glenn Watt NextGen North

• Um, the coastal creeks around, uh, Shady Camp, and the Mary River there, efficient really well as long as the weather's not too rough to get to them, and, and then, of course, they're into Kakadu, where I'm heading, um, is, is sort of easier as well, um, when it's all flooded up on the Billabong floodplains there.

  Bag a Barra — 6 March 2026 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• There's a couple of Darwin YouTubers or Jabaroo YouTubers that have been putting a few videos up of lots of smaller fish up on the floodplains, particularly, and the south would, that'd be where I would head.

  Fishing on Arvos — 11 February 2026 Fishing on Arvos

• Um, yeah, not too far away from a bit of a floodplain drain just there. So, I suppose he might have wandered up there, and of course, we've been having so much rain up here that all those drains have all got, you know, maybe knee deep water in them, a lot of the time at the moment.

  Bag a Barra — 6 February 2026 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• And of course, everything comes off the floodplains, all the nutrients, all the little bait fish and that is what entices our barriers to come up the river.

  Fishing on Arvos — 4 February 2026 Fishing on Arvos

• So, if you get it right, get up there on a push-up tide up the top of the floodplain systems when that salty water pushes up into the biller bombs and then sucks a few fish back out, you can have some really good fishing this time of year.

  Bag a Barra — 16 January 2026 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• They've got, it's sort of the floodplain section of the river. You can do a sunset and sunrise tour there as well as they offer a fishing experience out there as well.

  Bag a Barra — 13 June 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Perhaps goes for a couple of weeks, every year where it's just that right water level as it, as, uh, you know, the main groups of the beta, come off the floodplain, smaller barrow as well, and that brings all the barrow up from the salt water sections of the rivers, and they really have a big feed in frenzy in certain areas.

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

• We're out on the boat again, we're at the opposite end of the river this week, though, right up near the floodplains of the top of the South Alligator River.

  Bag a Barra — 18 April 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• You know, you get, you get up on the floodplains and you got all the birds and everything happening around and, and yeah, well, we keep saying that the fish is a bit of a bonus, but, you know, it's good to get a few and, and we're doing that now, so it makes it all worthwhile.

  Bag a Barra — 28 February 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• No, I did get out for a fish myself, went for a little lookout to Kakadu and up to the top of the floodplain of the South alligator.

  Bag a Barra — 20 December 2024 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• But yeah, I mean, it's uh, once it breaks the banks, which it has done on the Daly, uh, you know, it just really fills up all those billabong systems and, and floodplains and, and it just really kickstarts that, that sort of circle of life up here.

  Bag a Barra — 19 January 2024 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• So, we switched our plan up a little bit, where we decided to look for what we think might be a system with some floodplain at the top of it, just to try and follow down the theory where the bigger barrow are gonna aggregate it, the mouths of these creeks, in anticipation, for a spawning event over the full moon, which is coming up.

  Fishing for barramundi in the Top End Fishing Addiction

• There's one particular spot in the billabong there that's um got some water running in off the floodplain and It's probably in an area, say, the size of a regular sized house, maybe not your house, duck, it might be a bit big, but a regular.

  Bag a Barra — 30 June 2023 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• It's one more river rise and then it can, it can sort of finish off and start to peter out and let the rivers and floodplains start to drop from even next week on would be, would be just fine, but yeah, it's, it's absolutely perfect this timing.

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

• It keeps, keeps all the bait and the, and the barr sort of breeding up and fattening up up on the floodplain.

  Bag a Barra — 17 February 2023 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• I reckon they're all spread out on the floodplains at the moment. stuff right up on the swamp land and we might see a couple in March again as it starts to run off.

  Bag a Barra — 27 January 2023 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• So, um, sometime before Christmas, and that's just, um, you know, that's, that's absolutely key to get those floodplains full on the recruitment of Barra and all the other critters really happening and um, and set us up for another really good fishing year for, for next year.

  Bag a Barra — 14 October 2022 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Remembering that there's been a heap of water up in the floodplains since early December and even before that with some storms and all, you know, frogs and all the fish and lizards and all the other critters, yabbies and cherubin and this sort of thing are all being breeding up for the last few months.

  Bag a Barra — 18 February 2022 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• So, um, the females in particular are generally up on the floodplains, um, sort of building and guarding their mess and that sort of stuff.

  Bag a Barra — 14 January 2022 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• But then on, you know, on the spring tides, when the big moon pushes up that big tidal bore up the Daly and the big 6 inch mullet or foot long mullet come up with it, we're really looking at creek mouse and the top of the tide turn for those big fish to float back out off the floodplain.

  The Intermediate Line — Ep 80 The Intermediate Line

• They're the ones that are sort of pushing up on the floodplains to get up there and eat all the little frogs and tadpoles and that sort of stuff.

  Bag a Barra — 29 January 2021 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• It'll go through until the end of March, but as the wet season sort of progresses and the floodplains fill up, the fish start to move around a lot more.

  Bag a Barra — 8 January 2021 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• The soil will all be all wet up and the rest of it can go into the floodplains and start creating that life cycle for all our barra fishing for next year.

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

• I guess the only reason they become billabongs is because you can't sort of navigate to the, to the next one and they do, there's some sort of floodplain areas in between them.

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

• Now, we just, we like one more big one just to fill them up and get them, get them high for a while and flood it up onto those floodplains properly just to keep that life cycle going and and kick everything into gear for us there sort of in a couple of weeks time.

  Bag a Barra — 7 February 2020 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Once the, once the rain starts and and they, uh, the floodplains start flooding and stuff, they'll move a bit.

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

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