Kakadu

• And, um, you know, we had the most amazing wet season, so all those waterfalls and swimming holes, Berry Springs, another one of your favourites, just absolutely pumping, and some of our favourite billabongs are about to open up out in Kakadu as well.

  Bag a Barra — 24 July 2026 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Um, it's perhaps the territory's most um, well-known runoff barra fishing spot, apart from Kakadu and Daly, perhaps up there as well.

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

• It is unbelievable place and certainly on the way out towards Kakadu from Darwin. not quite in Kakadu, but it's out that way.

  Bag a Barra — 3 July 2026 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Litchfield's all opening up and Kakadu and Arnland are fully cranked as well. The mud crabs are running and yeah, I know some of those billabongs out in Kakadu are really starting to fire as the water drops away a little bit and the temperature stabilises into its sort of 26, 27 degree dry season temperature.

  Bag a Barra — 26 June 2026 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Mate, you mentioned last week on the show about the golf, the fishing and golf tournament at Kakadu.

  Bag a Barra — 5 June 2026 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• What about around Dundee and all that, mate, because have you been out there? Because I know you've been in Kakadu a bit lately.

  Bag a Barra — 22 May 2026 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• It's probably a dollar a litre cheaper out here in Kakadu than it was a few weeks ago. So that makes a big difference for everyone trying to run a business and also hopefully encourage a few more people to get up here and enjoy this beautiful scenery that we are looking at right now.

  Bag a Barra — 15 May 2026 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• I'm talking about Kakadu. What about Carl's Crossing? I mean, that'd be starting to become a bit popular now, wouldn't it? I mean, there'd be a fair bit of activity there with not only the crocodiles, but probably plenty of fish as well.

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

• Yeah, we're about 3 quarters of the way to the mouth of the South Alligator River in Kakadu National Park, sitting at the mouth of the creek and trying to tempt a few fish.

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

• 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.

  Bag a Barra — 3 April 2026 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Oh, yeah, but no, yeah, Narelle, she's she's caused a bit of heavy, hasn't she? So, yeah, obviously everyone would have seen through the week, all the rivers popped up again, Adelaide River, flooded, Adelaide River Township there, all the roads out to Kakadu and Shady Camper, all flooded.

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

• So for people that don't know Kakadu, even myself included, like I've never fished there. And I've never really, I've been a Jabberoo, but I've never actually been out outside of Jabber rather than the main road and in and out of there.

  Guys in the Gulf — Ep 046 Guys in the Gulf

• He had to come all the way down to a really one of my favourite spots, actually, Pine Creek, and come into the bottom part of Kakadu.

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

• So it depends where you are, but in Kakadu, it's good because the clients can choose from various levels of accommodation, from sort of fairly basic, right up to the flashest room at the Crock Hotel, and I'll either pick them up in the morning on the way.

  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

• Well, you stay dry up there and all that and we'll have a arm with you next week and hopefully by then you might have got out to Kakadu and caught yourself some.

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

• If you want to go fishing in the Top End, and it places around Kakadu, Harnum Lean, Darwin, or, you know, all those, you know, the, those big river systems up there, including up there around Dundee Beach as well.

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

• Done there a couple of times and then right down the mouth of the Adelaide South Alligator River and Kakadu earlier in the year.

  Bag a Barra — 19 December 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• On the, it's the very top of the South Alligator River, here in Kakadu. We've fished at home Billabong and Mardigal Billabong yesterday, which is directly out the back of the resort there, and the East Alligator at Kale's crossing the day before.

  Bag a Barra — 17 October 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Check out the website, check out the social media pages, and you could be fishing in Kakadu on these fish camps, or camped up there at Dundee, and not only enjoying some fishing, but he actually enjoying that Top End lifestyle, which I'm a massive advocate for.

  Bag a Barra — 10 October 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Sorry, the 1st of October through to the 31st of March, and the tag fish have been released in all the places that you head to, they've been released the top ends, 5 main fishing regions, Darwin, Kakadu, Arnumlang, Catherine, and the Tiwi Islands.

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

• I mean how good would that be? It doesn't matter Kakadu. He was at a Dundee last week and he's always got something going on.

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

• I don't know which was the 1st crocodile to do it, but he was obviously switched on and yeah, you really don't see it anywhere else other than Kakadu.

  Bag a Barra — 29 August 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• In fact, I was out at, uh, Kakadu, having a, um, little pre-fish, checking out some of the billabongs that had just recently opened the other day and it was 11 degrees overnight, mate.

  Bag a Barra — 22 August 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• If you'd like to plan your own Top End adventure, whether it's a day out on the harbour or the troop of a lifetime to a more remote destination like Kakadu, Dundee Beach, Bynoe Harbour, or the Mighty Daly River, get onto Watty to discuss your options and be sure to tell him Starlow sent you.

  Finding fish in Darwin Harbour Starlo Gets Reel

• And for people that want to know what that is, it's the bottom end of Kakadu, which basically where, if you watch the movie Crocodile Dundee, where he's spearfishing in that water.

  Bag a Barra — 11 July 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• We've been bumping into a stack of them and I'm tipping, there'll be people up there right now just enjoying what the Darwin and the surrounding areas have to offer as Litchfield and Kakadu and all those places, all in full flight right now.

  Bag a Barra — 20 June 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• I've got a mate who's with me from O Camp, 4 by 4 accessories, who's heading back and then doing this trip of game, but he's heading into Kakadu, and you are the king of Kakadu, because you'll spend half your life there, and you've given me a few tips on places that he should visit.

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

• And yeah, that little cell came through for a few days, it actually was good for us in the last few days of fishing out in Kakadu, just completed the last runoff fishing trip and it really jumped the water temperature back up again, got the fish fired up for a few days.

  Bag a Barra — 6 June 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• As soon as the billablongs starts opening Kakadu. that when it's, it's all, it's all, you know, it's all happening at once.

  Bag a Barra — 9 May 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• The bag limit for Barra in Kakadu is 3 per person. 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

• Are you there? No, we'll leave Watty there, and of course, that's a bit unfortunate, but he is, as I mentioned, he is on a boat in Kakadu, and obviously communication is difficult.

  Bag a Barra — 11 April 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• So, yeah, we're pretty lucky to spend the, the amount of time I do particularly out in the wilderness of Kakadu and you get to see some amazing stuff and it, you know, it'll continue for the rest of the year, so it's going to be awesome.

  Bag a Barra — 4 April 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• So, the season is um, sort of playing out a bit um, differently than it normally would, but it's been really good for my clients out at uh, Kakadu.

  Bag a Barra — 21 March 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• So, yeah, it, it, it should be, it should set up the, um, particularly the Kakadu and Litchfield waterfalls for a really good little season if, if we get this next dump of rain.

  Bag a Barra — 14 March 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• I'm, uh, it's, um, it's been a great 1st couple of trips out of Kakadu bar fishing for the year.

  Bag a Barra — 7 March 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• So you're right in the middle of Kakadu National Park, catching a few too. How good is that? So you're at Kakadu now, on the river, and you're catching a few.

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

• So, yeah, I'll be in and out of there every week until the end of May, and that's sort of when we say runoff fishing is finished, and then the big plan, and I, if, if anyone wants to become a barrow fishing guide, get onto me, because I'll be looking for a guide to run some half day fishing tours in Kakadu for me for June, July, August.

  Bag a Barra — 21 February 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• I, I, I'm pumped, and yeah, I mean, we're getting out to one of the most well-known um crocodile viewing areas in, in Kakadu there at the East Alligator and and try and catch a few of those barra before the crocs get them.

  Bag a Barra — 7 February 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Corroborate Billabong is the definition of nature at its best, part of the Merry River system, and located on the way out to Kakadu, this place is what I call the real Top End.

  Outback Beef and Barra — part 2 Oz Off Road TV

• 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

• They cross the gate at Kale's Crossing across Arnham Land during the week and there's a few of the um Kakadu billabongs and other swimming holes that are closing up sort of as the water levels rise.

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

• So that's one and the, and then the 2nd one is that, if the, if the river height um, rises through rain throughout the catchment, say, back down towards Catherine, and, of course, the Daly starts in Kakadu, way, way back.

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

• So, yeah, um, I did get to go for a chance out there, um, Kakadu, like I was saying last week, and yeah, that was a bit of fun too, having a, having a fish in the billabongs and stuff with absolutely no one else around.

  Bag a Barra — 22 November 2024 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• So, and that's my plan is to head out to Kakadu for a couple of days, um, with my tiny little flat bottomed tinny and see if I can find a few fish that haven't seen anyone for the year.

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

• We actually travelled from all the way from Kakadu this afternoon, uh after a morning session, uh fishing in home and Mardigal Billabongs, was just out the back of Kwinder Lodge, and we got stuck into plenty of Saratoga and Barramundi there in the Billabong, pissed through until 11, and then, yeah, it's about a 4.

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

• I'm tipping there'd be a lot of people up there throwing in a line, trying to get out of that barrow right now and all of the favourite water spots and fishing spots in Darwin and around Kakadu and south of, you know, down the Daly and all that.

  Bag a Barra — 12 July 2024 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• I think there's probably the same amount of big fish right across towards through Kakadu and Arnumland.

  Bag a Barra — 17 May 2024 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Yeah, the waterfalls will be really pumping all 3 Litchfield and Kakadu and and those billabongs have all had a good flush out and replenish all the fish in there for everyone to go and enjoy as they get opened up.

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

• We finished the 1st trip of the year the other day out at Kakadu. So that was, that was really good to get back on the water and, and have a look down the Riddler and, yeah, we found that uh, there's definitely plenty of fish around and once uh, once the water settles a little bit, like I keep saying it, it'll really fire.

  Bag a Barra — 1 March 2024 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• We be out to Kakadu and having a look around the South Alligator River for the rest of this trip, which is great.

  Bag a Barra — 23 February 2024 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• It's funny, you know, I had a message sent through from one of our listeners, who was actually travelling up to spend Christmas at Kakadu of all places.

  Bag a Barra — 29 December 2023 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Now, if you've never seen it, or if you've never, I mean, obviously some people listening to us may have been there, some may not have, you may not have even heard of it, but it is a place that basically, you come out of Kakadu, across Carl's Crossing, and it's like an entry into Arnland, but it's got, it's got a very unique feature.

  Bag a Barra — 21 July 2023 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Look, I hope you enjoy what's left of your little holiday and head off to Kakadu next week and we'll see if we can't jag on the phone then, eh? Yeah, mate, that's good.

  Bag a Barra — 14 July 2023 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• It's about an hour and a half drive out sort of towards Kakadu, out the Arnham Highway, from Darwin.

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

• So we spend the 1st 3 days fishing within sort of an hour's drive, Darwin, and then and then we shift camp out to out to Kakadu and fish the last 3 or 4 days out there, and when I say camp, we're staying at, where are we doing? Club Tropical is the 1st couple of nights.

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

• So you've, you, you were telling me off air that you've been into Kakadu, and they're catching fishing all right in there.

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

• I mean, you know, like, when you think of the northern territory, you think of those, um, you know, those scenes from Crocodile Dundee and, and all that sort of stuff and, and Kakadu really provides those and, um, yeah, it's a great experience, something, I recommend everyone should come up and have a crack at.

  Bag a Barra — 21 April 2023 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• I mean, yeah, you've been, uh, there's been a charge to get into Kakadu National Park for, for as long as I can remember, uh, you get a day pass, it might have even been, over 20 bucks, I reckon, for a day pass into Kakadu.

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

• I was actually chatting to a lady from Sydney today who's um heading up later in the month who um came to do similar plans for that, and yeah, I mean, they've got a, there's a few of them that will remain open through Litchfield, but uh a lot of the areas that you can swim particularly through Kakadu.

  Bag a Barra — 3 March 2023 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Now, for those of you that want to know about Carl's Crossing, it's a, it's a crossing at Kakadu, which basically can take them up into Arnamley, and we, it's pretty famous for all the crocs that go across the weir there.

  Bag a Barra — 5 August 2022 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Congratulations on that because, look, a lot of people, look, a lot of people who travel to the Top End, they want to go to Kakadu, and they want to go fishing in Kakadu, and then explore everything else that Kakadu has to offer.

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

• And that's going to go for all your Kakadu tools, your Litchfield tours, all the other stuff as well, accommodation.

  Bag a Barra — 11 February 2022 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• And of course, yeah, fishing guru in the Top End, and don't we all love getting up around Darwin, Kakadu, the Northern Territory, North Queensland.

  Bag a Barra — 4 February 2022 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• I guess what you say, like the, it's only locals up there, so I'm tipping there across all the, uh, the do's and the don'ts of hanging around creeks and rivers in Kakadu this time of year, that is for sure.

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

• And that's sort of as the as the flood waters recede and they start to get in and open up those tracks out through Kakadu and Litchfield and that sort of thing becomes a bit more accessible then.

  Bag a Barra — 7 January 2022 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• But I saw I saw some video through the week of a fantastic light show, when I say light show, lightning storm, over Kakadu through the week.

  Bag a Barra — 12 November 2021 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• What about that? Fishing out in Kakadu of a nighttime, with that big full moon just listening to the donkeys, which is different, and all that night, wildlife would be fantastic.

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

• No, it's it's pretty well, it's the last river before Kakadu, really. The Mary, yeah, once you get into, uh, a little bit further down, you've got the west and east alligators and um, and then the south alligator and it's, they're all inside Kakadoo there.

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

• In fact, that sort of stuff will get better and better until the water all disappears as the bait builds up official beer out there and particularly those Kakadu pole that's out around the south alligator and East Alligator, tend to fish really well right through this time of year.

  Bag a Barra — 19 February 2021 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• I thought, mate, you got to be joking because I remember after I left you, I went out through there through Kakadu and along that river and I actually went for a run across Carl's Crossing as well just to go and have a look.

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

• Well, I was in Kakadu the last few days, and I was, um, I was camped out at a place called, I think it's Kenindra, and Yellow Waters, I think, what he calls it, and he sends me a text, and he says to me, check out this bloke.

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

• Absolutely, because you can sort of take your camp with you, wherever you go, out to Kakadu for a few days or out to Litchfield and that sort of thing, and you get a couple of pushbikes or something and do your smaller tracks and that sort of stuff as well and just do your hikes on foot.

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

• Because you can sort of take your camp with you, wherever you go, to Kakadu for a few days or out to Litchfield and that sort of thing.

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

• And then Kakadu will open up next weekend and I'll, I'll be heading out there to do some camping and fishing in some, some of the billabongs, um, just inside the front gate.

  Bag a Barra — 29 May 2020 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• So that, that's 4 on the one system, um, and then you've got, you go further into Kakadu and you've got all the alligator billabongs as well.

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

• All right, so we're going to talk fishing from now on up in that area and you took a group out for a bit of an overnighter in the Kakadu National Park.

  Bag a Barra — 31 August 2019 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

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