Seasons, tides and water
Moon and tides
From 16 segments across the archive.
Seasons, tides and water
From 16 segments across the archive.
Springs, neaps and the moon — the pillar that decides most Top End sessions. Every quote below is from a real segment — follow it through for the audio and the full transcript.
But yeah, the the neap tides directly after that last big dump of rain just allowed it to get to get away really quickly.
Bag a Barra — 17 April 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
What do we need to know before I let you go before Rio's in with the news headlines, Watty? New moon.
Fishing on Arvos — 18 February 2026 Fishing on Arvos
I did hear that last uh, full moon, that there was a heap of pelicans turned up, the kale's crossing too, and the crocodiles are eating the pelicans as well as the mullet and barrel.
Bag a Barra — 17 October 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio
It's, it's actually a really popular spot to go and um, you can do a tour there to watch the turtles hatch on the uh, full moon and new moon as well.
Bag a Barra — 19 September 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio
If you're parked up next to a barr spot at night, and especially if you've had a tough day fish, and you think there's none in there, and then they're buffing and popping all night long, especially on these full moon nights.
Bag a Barra — 13 June 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio
So, there's a couple of different opportunities, and it, it, it will definitely happen, if it's not happening, sort of, this weekend over these um, big tides, we've got, perhaps the next full moon, and definitely by um, by that 1st um, moon in January.
Bag a Barra — 29 November 2024 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio
They probably did that last full moon in September and, and they'll get another couple of goes at it before it really starts to rain and, um, you know, we've seen the magpie geese flying over in huge numbers as well.
Bag a Barra — 25 October 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
Once we get into the end of the year and the start of the year, like right now is massive tides around the full moon and the new moon, mate.
Bag a Barra — 11 February 2022 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio
We've come off some pretty spring tide this week and then easing into the neap tides over the weekend there.
Bag a Barra — 26 November 2021 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio
But yeah, um, Full moon can be really good for night fishing and actually a little bit detrimental to our daytime fishing sometimes if the fish are feeding all night over a full moon, they might be a bit full or lethargic uh throughout the day sometimes.
Bag a Barra — 24 September 2021 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio
Probably on the next bull or new moon, um, just depend on how much rain. A monsoon starting to, you know, mill around up above us here now, so expecting very wet weather um for the next few days, so that'll be, that'll be really good and hopefully get that happening.
Bag a Barra — 11 December 2020 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio
Anyone who's into their land-based fishing probably all over the Facebook pages and stuff for these, which I don't know the exact names, but Mandora Jetty is one on Cox Peninsula and then there's blokes catching tuna and big Spanish mackerel and stuff off that every time you get a good bit of spring tide running through.
Bag a Barra — 26 June 2020 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio
We're coming up to the new moon now, which is one of my favourite tide phases, to do the stuff that I like to do.
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