Elizabeth River Rock Bars is tidal estuary water in Darwin Harbour, Palmerston, with boat and kayak and shore access. Anglers target Barramundi, Mangrove Jack, Threadfin Salmon and more. Sourced from the official listing, 8 July 2026.
Elizabeth River Rock Bars is rated HOLD · 50/100 for fishing today, and the best day in the next week is Sun, 20 Sept at 60/100.
Scored from tide, wind, swell, pressure and light for this location. Generated 2026-09-16 and refreshed daily — open the app for the current hour.
Predicted from harmonic constituents at Darwin, 12.1 km away. The marked points are the predicted extremes; the curve between them is interpolated.
Middle Arm Boat Ramp and Rock Bar is scoring 5 higher, 13 km S from here.
Scored the same way as Elizabeth River Rock Bars and adjusted for each spot's own exposure, so a sheltered estuary can beat an open platform on the same weather. Distances are straight-line.
Elizabeth River rock bars are named by the NT Government as a popular fishing-location imagery site. It adds a Top End estuary-structure row where reading tide and rock is the core fishing task.
Best conditions: Use low-tide imagery to locate the rock bars, then fish with a tide plan that keeps boat and lure control safe. Barra and jacks are more realistic when water is moving around structure and colour changes.
-12.52, 130.94 ± 2 km
Approximate area, not an exact mark. Fishare publishes fishing spots to a ~2 km range — the spot is somewhere inside this circle.
NT regs SSOT; check NT Fishing Mate, Darwin Harbour area rules and ramp/access conditions before fishing.
Bag limits, size limits and closures are set by the Northern Territory fisheries authority and change through the year. Fishare tracks the current rules on the NT fishing regulations page — check it before you keep a fish.
Details for Elizabeth River Rock Bars come from the official source, retrieved 8 July 2026.
Source detail: NT Government page lists Elizabeth River rock bars and explains that low-tide imagery helps identify underwater structures relevant to fishing. Coordinate is a representative mapped lower Elizabeth River rock-bar reach.
Conditions change. Access closes, sand moves and structure shifts — check locally before you travel a long way.
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