The wet season

• The only thing I'm sort of waiting for is for our kakadoo billabongs to open up, which after such a big wet season might take a little bit longer than normal.

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

• 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

• So, you know, after such a big wet season, it's just going to keep ticking along like that.

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

• So, it'll be a good measure of how healthy the river is and that'll get everyone fired up to come up and stay down a daily again and support all those businesses that virtually got filled up with sand and mud through the wet season, mate.

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

• So that's a real key feature, this time of year for us as well, with our harbour fishing, and that is to grab a feed of mud crabs, which you can't do through the wet season and the runoff.

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

• So you've just got to be right now when the river levels are dropping in the big rivers and you've got to remember as well after such a huge wet season that there's new obstructions in the form of big old trees and snags and even rock bars and things and definitely mud banks will change after a big season like this.

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

• What about the crossing itself, mate? How deep is it at the moment? I mean, we're basically just out of the wet season.

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

• I mean, of course, we had a fairly record wet season up here, and then that gives everything a chance to build up the bait, and the environment sort of just gets really primed for when the water starts or stops raining, which we probably had our last reign for the until probably September the other day, I reckon.

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

• I used to drive road trains for ostidic, all wet season. And every time you saw a boat, you wish that you weren't in that truck, you were in that car going to wherever, no matter what the tides were.

  Guys in the Gulf — Ep 046 Guys in the Gulf

• It all started in November, of course, with Cyclone Phoenix, so yeah, it just keeps the wet season that keeps on giving, isn't it? It is, it is a big wet.

  Bag a Barra — 20 March 2026 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• We've been saying how wet it is for the last few months or even, you know, we had that cyclone in November, right? So, it was a really good start for the wet season.

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

• So I've had a huge deluge of rain this wet season. Have you been getting out at all or are you sort of holding fast and waiting for the for the right time to strike? Because I think the, um, the Catherine's at like 16, 17 metres in there, I heard on the radio that I think it was Trent Dwyth saying that it could go up to 20.

  NextGen North #63 — Glenn Watt NextGen North

• The Top End, it's got a lot of rain up there, what's doing with the fishing and how is life up there in the Top End of the moment with this wet season that just seems to big, isn't it? It's a big one Oh, mate, yeah, it's the, it's certainly the weirdest one I've ever been involved in.

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

• It's like that every year and on such a big wet season, it's going to be even worse. Oh, ABC radio, Darwin, who is the number 2 fish? Send me a text 048799 1057 there.

  Fishing on Arvos — 18 February 2026 Fishing on Arvos

• Daly River's evacuated at the moment and that river's probably, I haven't checked it lately, but it would be almost be at record levels right now, I reckon, and they have been saying on the radio that it's the wetest start to the wet season in 29 years.

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

• And I don't know that we've had this good a wet season for January in coming into February in decades.

  Fishing on Arvos — 4 February 2026 Fishing on Arvos

• It's the wettest start to a wet season we've had in 29 years. Really? That's going to be, that's, that's a big deal for the fishing, of course, and and it's also a big deal for every, like all you mob coming up later on in the year for waterfalls and swimming holes and stuff can be amazing.

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

• And as I say, the wet season, you know, your wet season, he comes out and about. Mate, and we just played that song territory time.

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

• And I mean, that wasn't too bad because it wasn't real windy, you know, and we, but we got the rain and it was actually a record wet season and the fishing after it was amazing.

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

• I mean, travelling, the wet season and this time of year. That's probably not a bad time to enter the Top End, is it? Well, I mean, a lot of, a lot of things start to get a lot more freed up with, I mean, accommodation and availability as well as you get some pretty good wet season rates, mate.

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

• And um and yeah, we're looking like it's going to be a pretty good start to the wet season.

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

• That's perhaps when we're more into the real deal of the wet season. So, yeah, fingers crossed, that keeps happening and we keep getting the rain.

  Bag a Barra — 31 October 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• And obviously it's, as you say, it's starting to steam up, warm up as we get closer and closer to that beautiful wet season that I know you love so much.

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

• They tend to only be 4 or 5 day bursts, but we are sitting, I think, right now on about 45 nights under 20 degrees in Darwin, which is, um, we've, we've caught up a bit since I mentioned that perhaps last week, um, where the, uh, the average for a good wet season is 50 nights under 20.

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

• And even in the wet season when it's sort of not really a tourist time. There's plenty of stuff going on, just a bit more targeted to locals, but yeah, the Darwin Festival, and of course, Darwin cut.

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

• Um, you know, since that sort of pretty handy wet season and then, um, you know, the advancement of their skills using a new technology as well.

  Bag a Barra — 8 August 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Yeah, Catherine had their highest ever daily rainfall on record, not even in wet season, but it on record, and yeah, jumped the river up to 6 or 7 metres overnight.

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

• The wet season was gone and the east leaves blowing and it's all dry. What about where you are? you reckon that it's now dry and the fish are biting.

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

• It's not something we, that a hell of a lot of people do at this time of year, but, of course, you're going to get some wet season rates and, and perhaps less crowds if you, if you do travel at this time of year.

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

• When does the wet season sort of end up there? I mean, would it be coming towards the end of it soon or? Ah, yeah, it'll slow down.

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

• So, yeah, we're really keen just to hang around and um, look hook into the garden, enjoy the wet season, the storms and stuff like we keep saying about, and um, yeah, have a bit of Christmas up here, so it'll be good to get the olds up.

  Bag a Barra — 13 December 2024 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• It's funny, you know, because everyone heads up there, obviously, in the dry season, but it seems that the best fishing is in the wet season.

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

• But after that, it goes to be quiet over the wet season. you know, and all the, all the bookings will start firing up again in um that last week of February, I suppose, and, and off we go again into it after a big wet season and a good rest, and um, and yeah, back into another big year.

  Bag a Barra — 25 October 2024 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Well, we'll get a report off you next week on what's happening up there with the wet, of course, and of course, the fishing and what changes with the fishing and the wet season, we'll do all of that with you next week.

  Bag a Barra — 11 October 2024 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• It's the beginning of September, and we're fishing the build up to the wet season, the monsoon that happens over the summer months up here.

  Fly fishing Bynoe Harbour Peachy Fly Fishing

• But the very 1st rains in the in the rivers and billdogs can actually be a problem for the fish for a little while and they wash a bit of um try leaf litter and that sort of stuff in, but once it starts to happen, everything settles down again, you know, with the change of seasons and off we go in a wet season, hopefully a big one.

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

• I mean, when is the buildups to begin for the wet season and I mean, you talk about the weather, the weather's just in the northern part of the country's good all the time, but when does that sort of begin and what does that do to the fishing? Yeah, well, I suppose officially, um, we'd probably say buildup starts in September.

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

• Yeah, yeah, and it was this time of year too, right through the wet season, I'd just watch the work clothes and leave them in the washing machine overnight, put them on wet, and then it's sort of nice and cool, and you don't lose as much of your body liquid, creating sweat.

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

• Should really hold that wet season and that bait breeding cycle, um, going right through until the end of May, is my fingers crossed and on a year like this, in previous years, that's certainly what happens.

  Bag a Barra — 9 February 2024 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• So, yeah, it's wet season and you know, really, really enjoyable time of year for us and really exciting too, because it means Christmas parties are here and Christmas holidays and then hopefully a big run off.

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

• Yeah, so how are they biting? So what's what's it like up there? Because I'm tipping the wet season to be building now, Watty? and you're out on the boat still and what's this is this a business fishing day or are you just having a bit of fun? Yeah, no, that's right.

  Bag a Barra — 10 November 2023 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• And it's this time of year when they perhaps do start moving around again and thinking about where they're going to do their breeding and stuff for the wet season.

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

• And mate, a bit of rain about as we, as the wet season builds up, are the fish on the bite? Yeah, we got our 1st bit of rain at our place, there in B's Creek overnight.

  Bag a Barra — 6 October 2023 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• It just depends on what the weather does, 'cause obviously we're very close to wet season.

  Fishing for barramundi in the Top End Fishing Addiction

• Is there a best time of year, a prime time of year to come? Yeah, we take a wet season off just because of the weather, but any other time, say, from late February, right through until mid-December or early December is going to be best.

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

• I've got to say to you, even up here we are now, whereas it's, they do, it's, you know, they get, obviously have a wet season up, up the Top End and around Cape York and that, but it seems to be extended here.

  Bag a Barra — 5 May 2023 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• So it is a decent amount of rain, but it's not sort of ripping the roof off type thing, but it just gets everything flowing again and lifts the river levels again and sort of finishes off a wet season for us.

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

• Um, I guess how's how's the wet season at tape starting to taper off or at all or is it still bucketing? No, no, it's still pretty wet.

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

• And obviously with all the rain, the big wet season, fish are about now, and it's going to be a cracking fishing season up there, and which would be fantastic for you and everybody else that's heading that way.

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

• Yeah, it's actually going really well, even though we're sort of right in the middle of sort of what is true wet season condition that's raining here right now and has been pretty steadily after that that sort of dry spell got broken the other day, but yeah, still a lot of blood water around, but people are catching a lot of fish.

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

• Watty, how you doing? How's the wet season treating you, son? Yeah, going well, mate. Yeah, it's actually a really nice sunny day today.

  Bag a Barra — 13 January 2023 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• The fish do, they'll start moving around a bit more and hunting around for that sort of wet season haunt that they're going to head for once it all gets flooded.

  Bag a Barra — 16 December 2022 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Largely, people slow down over the wet season, particularly over Christmas. There's a, there's the odd one around and a few blokes sort of chip away doing a bit of one day stuff and half day stuff, but um, yeah, I like to give myself a proper break and get some maintenance done and then, and have a bit of a holiday myself.

  Bag a Barra — 2 December 2022 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• But, you know, as we get closer to summer and that wet season and that tropical weather and the humidity and all that, okay, it does make it a bit uncomfortable.

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

• They've got a big undercover area for the wet season. We have our Christmas party there most years, actually.

  Bag a Barra — 2 September 2022 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• So it's, um, it's a sign of a good seat, um, of sort of a good enough wet season when, when the billabong's fishing well, and, of course, the most beautiful place to go for a look.

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

• The wet season's happening. He loves it up there this time of year, and he's getting ready for a bumper fishing season.

  Bag a Barra — 28 January 2022 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• But right at the moment, I'm just putting together a couple of these um, sort of workshop masterclasses on um, Fishing for Barrow in the wet season and then, and then the big one, which is um, fishing bar in the runoffs.

  Bag a Barra — 21 January 2022 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• We went in the state of Jabberoo in one of the caverns in the caravan park there last week and yeah, the whole joint looks like it's, it's, it's really benefitting from, from this big wet season and plenty of rain.

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

• The people up in the northern territory and in Darwin in particular, they change their, their working hours or business hours in light of the, the, uh, wet season and the, and the heat and the humidity.

  Bag a Barra — 17 December 2021 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• We're taking a small intake for the Top End Barra Secrets course, but we're, yeah, largely we're gearing down and starting to get stuck into the um wet season maintenance and preparing for, for next year.

  Bag a Barra — 3 December 2021 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Yeah, it's good way of putting it, isn't it? And like you say, we've actually spoken here on other programs too, in regards to, you know, don't ignore the Top End in the wet season and when things are warming up because, you know, there are some advantages to that.

  Bag a Barra — 26 November 2021 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Well, I mean, what happens now? So as the, we move into the wet season, you sort of, you slow, you slow down, basically to a stop date you in regards to customers and the like.

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

• So as the wet season coming, and with the gazebo and drinking area at each watering hole, I mean you've got to love it, haven't you? Yeah, yeah.

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

• The tropical Top End, you know, just coming into the wet season. It's hot, it's beer drinking weather.

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

• So it goes to show what a good wet season can do. It was funny, you know, because I received a random email, which I just sent to, I replied to all emails and I did quickly reply to this email, but then I sent it to the junk file because I thought it was a G-up.

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

• Because of last year's good wet season, the recruitment in those critters has just been amazing and everyone's getting plenty of big ones for a feed as well as um good sized bait cushion ones as well.

  Bag a Barra — 27 August 2021 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• So, mate, as we move on now, when will, how's the weather in the Top End? Is it starting to warm up a bit, starting to get a little bit humid? When do we start looking forward to that change in the weather, mate, for the wet season? No, not that far away really.

  Bag a Barra — 20 August 2021 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• And that's the thing up there because they can't have a set date of when things open, do they? I mean, everything's basically dependent on weather conditions, whether it's a big wet season or it's a, you know, a light on wet season.

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

• When you got, um, you know, like we'll have, not so much throughout this time of year, they get a little bit smaller, maybe 6 metres of movement, but in the, um, sort of summertime, um, in the wet season now, tides can get up to 8 metres.

  Bag a Barra — 9 July 2021 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• And of course, um, you know, we're getting uh, we were getting a huge amount of visitors from south, obviously within international travel restrictions, um, the, the guided fishing and tourism in general is through the roof and it, it is really great because, um, we had a really good wet season just gone.

  Bag a Barra — 2 July 2021 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Mate, you say you've been down the Daly River a fair bit, mate, is that where you head this time of year because you've just gone through the wet season, although you had a little bit of rain up there through the week, but you're more or less going to hit the dry season now.

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

• Now, look, how long now before that wet season? It's still, it's still now the, the tail end of the wet season or is it done? Yeah, it's still like we're, we haven't had rain for like proper rain for a week or so now, which is, it's actually sort of what we needed just to let everything settle down and um, and dry out a little bit.

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

• So 2011 was a big wet season, I think, right across Northern and Eastern Australia too. So, um, if you guys having a big one up there this year, maybe that'll come down here as well.

  The Intermediate Line — Ep 80 The Intermediate Line

• She's letter, right? Earl is the wet season, son. How much rain you had, you reckon? Yeah, well, I was listening to the radio the other day yesterday and we'd had 1200 mil of rain for the wet season so far.

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

• It's certainly a great part of the world and it'd be certainly different there now for people who have never been there during the wet season like myself.

  Bag a Barra — 22 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

• They love that wet season. Sure, the humidity and all that, but you get used to that and but this wet season and the storms and just the, the, the whole show of those storms as well.

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

• Plus, I've got, you know, I've got all this other stuff on the go to, which is keeping me very busy, so I'll have a rest up now and and um sort of get everything ready for a mid-February kickoff again um after a big wet season for uh for what's um actually shaping up to be the busiest year ever.

  Bag a Barra — 13 November 2020 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• I'm just too busy and I don't have the time to, to sort of muck around with it and get it going properly, so I'll do that over the wet season, which isn't too far away, you know, honestly, you know, like by the end of this month we'll be finished.

  Bag a Barra — 6 November 2020 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• And I've actually got a young mate of ours cattle who, uh, and another mate of mine, Denny Dave, who's up there in, uh, he's actually over the border in WA at the moment, but he's up there working, watching the start of the wet season, and the storm's rolling in, and I know me young mate.

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

• I see, he's been getting around a bit, and he's trying to push a little bit, too, to try and get people up there for the wet season and for the summer, try and get people a holiday in the northern territory.

  Bag a Barra — 2 October 2020 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• And so, mate, should be all back to normal and hopefully people will get up there and try and experience a bit of a holiday in the in the Top End during the wet season because I think it'd be fairly worthwhile doing it.

  Bag a Barra — 25 September 2020 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• You'll be looking forward to that rain because I think your place is just going to be an absolute tropical oasis once that wet season kicks in where you're living there.

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

• I mean, this, that place in the wet season is going to look like a tropical oasis. The one thing that I, that, that I did find very appealing, which is obviously why you are there, is that you had all these water holes, dug, where natural water holes on the property, but each water hole was accompanied by like a little drinking gazebo.

  Bag a Barra — 28 August 2020 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• But yeah, I'd like to see, I'd like to see it move to the dry season and give us a bit of a break over the wet season, do our maintenance myself.

  The Segment — Glenn Watt, Barefoot Fishing Safaris The SegmeNT

• I know people who prefer to come up here in the wet season. And not you say, if you can put up with the humidity, you certainly you're going to see, you say that, you know, you're going to see plant life and bird life, stuff that you won't see in the dry season because there's a lot of water around.

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

• And I guess if I was here for an extended period and you go through a wet season and all the humidity and everything along with that, this time of year, to me would think, Jesus, I mean, even in the stores, in the shops, not that I do too many shops, but the missus, she wanted to hit the shops once we got here to get a couple of things.

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

• Obviously, during the wet season, they'd be a bit careful of jellyfish and that sort of thing and be mindful of stingrays and charts and crocodiles, but, you know, the same old story.

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

• Then you sit out the wet season, which we've seen you do now, which is fantastic. All right, mate.

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

• The trouble for you is that by the way it's looking, it'll at very best, it'll be on the brink of the wet season again.

  Bag a Barra — 27 March 2020 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• He's been battling the wet season, doing his best, and getting himself ready for a massive season of fishing.

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

• I mean, just before we get into it, the wet season, mate, we're getting our own little wet season down here at the moment, how's it going up there? Yeah, I'll be watching that with a bit of envy.

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

• But that's a good time of year, mate, isn't it? And how long? So, obviously, I mean, it's, it is a quieter time for you because of the, you know, the wet season and stuff, and everyone sort of likes to take a break at Christmas if they can.

  Bag a Barra — 20 December 2019 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Now you've, you're up there, you're sort of bunkering in for the wet season and doing all that.

  Bag a Barra — 6 December 2019 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Do you have many people travel up from the south this time of year and as we get into the wet season to get that, that, you know, that wet season fishing experience? Yeah, not heat.

  Bag a Barra — 15 November 2019 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• So does that change at times in fishing, like rather than go at certain times of day? Does the wet season force you to change what time you actually go out and throw a line in up there? Yeah, it does.

  Bag a Barra — 13 September 2019 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

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