READING THE RUN OFF
In Northern Australia there are only two seasons, the wet and the dry. From an anglers perspective the end of the wet season can be a time of plenty, as the water leaves the many flood plains and pours into the draining rivers.
The entire ecology of most tropical areas is dependent on the length and intensity of the wet season. When a poor wet season occurs the amount of life on both the land and in the rivers and estuaries is greatly diminished.
After a good wet season everything is green and teeming with life. I’ve fished the Daly River in the Northern Territory for over thirty years and seen both good and poor wet seasons. After a series of poor wet seasons in 2018/19 I fished the river for ten days and never caught a legal sized barramundi. It was low, dirty, dried up and devoid of life. However, after good wet seasons I’ve fished the same river and caught many hundreds of fish in the same period of time.
Last year was the first reasonable wet season in four years, and we enjoyed good fishing. The good news is that the current wet season
