North Australian FISH FINDER TM forums

yay! ... http://www.news.com.au/national/norther ... 5e4c33acb1

Should slow down the scrub fires and make everything a bit greener.

Looks like a good pre-soak ...

Will this early rain cause fish kills if there isn't much of a follow up?

I wondered the same Jer. What I am hopeful of is that the early rain will green everything up and arrest the usual fires that we get at this time of year. It should top up some of the small water holes and give the fish a chance to survive and become bait. And hopefully it will let all the bugs breed and create additional food supplies that will carry on into the wet season.

What I noticed last year was the lack of bait around, overall we got almost decent rain but a lot of it was late and there did not appear to be abundant bait to feed everything. Last year was really hot and dry and the scrub fires were very intense and did a lot of damage. The next few days of rain won't create a runoff but it might be enough to trigger the food supply for when the rains do come.

That is the million dollar question - one big rain and then nothing can be bad, but if it keeps raining, it is very, very good ...

Just got back from camping at Gumlom with the family. We were going to stay 'till Tuesday. I estimate we had in excess of 100mm last night and this morning. It didn't stop from about 6pm last night until about 10am this morning. The rangers came around at about 8am and let us know if we want to get out anytime in the next week we better pack up and head off as the South Alligator had risen over a meter and was continuing to rise. When we crossed, it was maybe half a meter under the bridge. All the creeks were flowing well. So maybe a good start...........

Wicked......I am heading back to Darwin tomorrow :):):):):):):):):):) bring on the big wet!

Day 2 of this September craziness ... http://www.bom.gov.au/nt/observations/d ... fall.shtml

142mm upper Katherine, that's some good apples

Magella at 50cm too

We need it hope we keep getting the follow up regularly which is what has been missing last few years, early days but good start so fingers crossed.

cheers Craig