Bumper Run Off Predictions - Barra Fishing in the Top End

Alex Julius writes in his weekly column: There's no doubt that the next few weeks in particular will yield some amazing barra-fishing sessions for a multitude of anglers across Australia's Top End's big rivers.

When you have a wet season that starts as early as this one has (the first week of December 2010) and then continues right through into March, with one monsoon after another dumping across the big-river floodplains, the inland aquatic food chain goes bananas.

From the smallest microscopic organisms to the largest predators, right now the Top End's brimming floodplains are a smorgasbord of unprecedented magnitude. Everything will be eating and growing...and getting eaten.

Once the flood waters start to recede in earnest, and the true Run-off begins, all that delicious barra tucker will be pouring through flowing feeder creeks into the main river channels.

Barra will be lined up, ready to pounce, wherever they need to be: at the creek mouths with their contrasting colour changes; in the quiet back eddies adjacent to fast-flowing water; behind submerged rocks as swirling waters tumble above; nosed up against thick, underwater timber, snapping up tasty morsels as they wash by; and eyes up a centimetre from the surface underneath small, cascading waterfalls, gobbling up disoriented rainbow fish and the like as they rain down upon the river.

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