Tales from the Tinny: Recent Episodes
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"We really had no idea what migrations they were making in the Timor and Arafura seas."
"It's my number one procrastination, and sometimes I gotta pack it all away cos I really should be doing other things."
A confronting moment of self-loathing for Darwin's Land based Sensei, as he considers eating soft serve ice-cream alone. Outpouring of support from fishing community, as they rally around him.
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Perfect tides for build up barra
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From Twitchin to the Kitchen
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Farewell the Mangrove Ninja
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Build up time
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A good old Territory stranding, but who is hero and who is villain?
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Perfect tides for build up barra
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From Twitchin to the Kitchen
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Farewell the Mangrove Ninja
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Build up time
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A good old Territory stranding, but who is hero and who is villain?
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Perfect tides for build up barra
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From Twitchin to the Kitchen
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Farewell the Mangrove Ninja
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Build up time
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A good old Territory stranding, but who is hero and who is villain?
"I'm trying to catch something decent, and instead I keep landing the world's most venomous fish."
The strange links between fishing and pumpkin-growing. "It wasn't a bait ball, it was a BARRA ball!". How a ladder will improve your catch rate. Kids catching tuna from a jetski.
The fine art of making timber barra lures. "I wasn't prepared for how much the boat would look like a murder scene." Divorce looms if metery isn't caught. Front-runner for best fishing tattoo ever.
Lockdown fishing fallout, morning mackies, nitro drags vs jewies, and an important lesson in foliage selection.
Offshore overnighter, Darwin bluewater update, mudcrab redemption and tagging barra on the Roper.
Big fish on the sounder as temps go south; Corroboree turns it on (and off); new fisheries sustainability data; and jewies caught under a pilchard ban.
Tuna a la kayak, harbour gold, TWHF, take the kids billfishing, and the Darwin mackerel maestro gives a few of his tips.
Crabs back on in Shoal, bluewater with Charlsey, Daly River night sessions, the "million dollar fish"... and portrait of an epic runoff.
Tail end of runoff, sailfish research, underwater baited cameras and drone fishing Territory style.
The annual Roper trip, Corroboree on fly, barra fishing blind, and old school fish printing.
Croc attack on the South, Machiavellian comp skullduggery, the romance of the pig sticka and in the octane booster we trust
Girls Gone Fishin' kicks off run of Daly comps; and billfishing begins in earnest at Dundee.
The stage set on the Daly and Chambers Bay, plus runoff workout tips for the proactive fisho.
With everywhere primed to fire, ahead of Easter the boys look at the state of play around the Top End. And a familiar character makes another vulgar appearance.
Warren De Witt looks at the big picture around the Top End, barra guide Jarrod Godson pipes in on Shady and Beard heads to a very flooded South Alligator.
TEBs kicks off, MDF season 7 almost wrapped, envy vs congratulations at Marsh, and a fisho's suspiciously good session raises questions.
The Daly, The Sampan, The Finniss, The Adelaide – all share the spotlight as the runoff gets into gear.
It's green light for runoff fishing! Really what more is there to say this week on the Tinny?
NLC and Minister for Aboriginal Affairs discuss new registration process and closures; and Sampan stonkers steal the show again.
Up the big rivers rise!; the Culvert Crusader hits the road; and TFT Enterprises dips its toe into reality TV matchmaking.
Two centimetres short of marriage, making lures when you're 11, down to the undies in Shoal Bay, and TFT survives The Great Purge.
The monsoon takes a breather, a fisho's partner corrects the record, a religious reimagining...and commercial crabbers back in Shoal Bay?
From the monsoon hope springs eternal, Kakadu and Daly reports, the most disciplined fisho in Darwin nabs a metery, and a high order Church member pops in.
The last Tinny for 2020, which the Tinny reckons might actually have been one of the best years for Top End fishos, despite a global pandemic!
Bynoe, Dundee and a monsoon on the way? And what's that rumour about a massive barra caught by someone, somewhere? Tales from the Tinny is a fishing show - sort of
Backyard barra bounty, harbours fishing well despite the heat and a Xmas frothy and waffle.
The heat is on, the (TEBS) race that stops the nation!...and 1970s Daly River reminiscences.
"The motor was so small if you caught a big barra you couldn't get back up on the plane!"
The fine art of handlining big jewies, The Maggot hits Shoal Bay and the Tiwis brings smiles and tears.
The importance of leadership, some billfish hijinks...and hardcore GT lures from recycled timbers.
That early build-up persistence, the allure of the NT GT (not BT), and the correct way to spend your 21st.
Red tags go off, a 104 with a bad back, the hunt for the enigmatic Permit and why wedding rings and fishing don’t go together.
40kg land-based GT, croc encounter circa 1983, long trolls for big barra, Million Dollar Fish kicks off its sixth season, and waaahooooo!!
Alex Julius has had a few close calls with crocs. But the Kakadu incident in 1983 still takes the cake.
Attack is the best defence, Dundee rescue, billfish weekend, chinaman fish... and a few mangoes.
Harbour metery, a tantalising fallacy, early red tag blues...and the ultimate daily double.
Barra-Toga comp wrap; the billfish are back; an actual NT Minister for Rec Fishos; and a worm of... death?
A trip to the Mini Mini; beneath the manta lies the cobia; and to catch the marlin you must first catch...the mini-marlin.
The harbour provides as the wind picks up, and a champ hits the 'bong for comp pre-fish.
Build up kicks off, Dundee spearfishing innovation and why golf when you can fish-and-golf?
Billabongs continue to perform, the mullet continues to inspire...and the Tinny reestablishes its election policy platform.
Two of the old guard pipe in; the link between fishing and champion pumpkin-growing; and a boat is named something strange and oddly sinister.
Chris Errity has spent decades fishing for big barramundi. But it’s the one from 1991 that still takes the cake.
Alex Julius attended the first Barra Classic in 1982. But it wasn’t just the barra that saw his drag screaming that year.
Goldies and jewies dominating reports, the glee of a barra PB upgrade, and the strange appeal of preserving fish dentures.
Tips on catching muddies, saratoga and Mandorah pelagics...plus a coupla Vic River stonkers.
The Tinny launches its bid for the best Territory song of all time, and takes you onto the blue for a beautiful looking weekend.
Fishos hit the reefies, biosecurity zones lifting, nailing barra with a bow and arrow...and one epic vintage lure collection.
The surprising benefits of midnight strolling, an epic run of stuff-ups continues, surreal numbers of meteries...and the mudcrab's return gives rise to an uplifting hypothesis.
Epic mullets, epic purple patches...and more point-blank boofs than you can probably handle.
Sampan goes orf (again); fish already on the artificial reefs; and catching fish the Groote way.
Harbour fishing canoe-style, how to catch a barra in a puddle, and the unsurprising perks of living inside a highly fishable biosecurity area.
Good harbour barra reports…and the Top End still the premier location to host a fishing disaster.
The Easter Show: how guides are handling covid-19; the trials of landing big barra solo; and Beard’s socially-distanced interview methods go next level.
The Tinny boys have been kicked out of HQ and forced into isolation at home. Broadcast to you this week from a hot and humid Top End backyard amidst the confusion that is COVID-19.
The time has come fishos. Payback time. Three key words 'flu-like-symptoms'. Then self isolate on the billabong, big river or deep blue. Just make sure you keep your distance from one another. Which won't be hard...
Not quite run off conditions but the switch has certainly been flicked this week with good barra reports from the Adelaide, Daly, Shoal Bay, Shady, East and South.
How to target barra from a cherry picker, why fishos are ahead of the curve as toilet paper shortages grip the nation and how to tackle one of the Top End's most powerful sports fish
Three meteries in a row brings fisho out of funk...and could this rain herald a new dawn?
Wild croc encounter in East Arnhem, the thrill of the bowhunted barra...and some half-decent rain - but is it enough?
The missing monsoon continues to tease with the odd big barra landed. And a fishing disaster ends in triumph... relatively speaking.
The Tinny is back for 2020. Barra-stickin' stickface, the state o' the Daly, a barra plays hard-to-get with a lovestruck fisho...and a new song destined to top the charts.
Mixed bag this week sees big barra, big predictions, and the mother of all mother-in-laws.
Top End artificial reefs almost doneski, jetty-caught red tag... and waterspout off Dundee raises concerns over alien fish theft.
Rain on the horizon, techniques to hook reluctant barra, new 2020 Billfish comp... and stolen freezer fillets spark community outrage.
Getting hot and hectic this week with intense situations, intense genius and intense... not-genius.
More meteries, East Arnhem LBG, and the turmoil of a good ol' fashioned sandbar stranding. Oh, and the best croc-induced screaming we've heard in some time.
The pain and glory of billfish comps, first season 5 red tag goes off, and the big barra reports continue to excite, entice and befuddle.
The Magnificent Bastards strike again. And as the clouds roll in, so do the big barra reports.
A relatively lucid retrospective on dry season fishing, before the build-up-proper forcibly removes our normally calm dispositions.
The Adelaide River still fickle, catching barra landbased on fly...and a spearo's return to fishing a year after shark attack.
Bigger Barra on in the Tiwis, and once again fishos start to go Million Dollar Fish comp crazy.
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Into the deep blue on a five day remote charter, over to North East Arnhem Land and meter barra still to be found in Darwin Harbour
It's all about the Sailfish this weekend with a huge upsurge in numbers off Dundee, and some of the stats are mind blowing.
Billabong blues, bonza billfishing tips...and bluewater biceps. The build-up approaches...
How to target barra on Darwin harbour flats, billfish resurgence off Dundee and how being wheel chair bound doesn't stop one man from fishing the Territory - hard!
Trevor poppin', squid jiggin', midnight metery boofin', mackie drag screamin'...and why a knife got taped to a gaff on the South Alligator.
Dry season continues to produce good barra, don't forget the humble NT squid...and why weld when you can use a tree trunk?
Numerous reports of harbour flats barra, with dozens sighted and numerous boated. And blue water reefies and sail fish show up for fishos in the calm windows.
A comprehensive two part rundown on catching Mackerel off Lee Point, billabong dry season horses and competitors go head to head for the best lure at the Royal Darwin Show.
A mid-year hiatus of self-reflection (read: chance to go fishing), looking back on some of the year's top fisho yarns. The characters, the disasters...and a tackle box of stuff we just thought was pretty funny.
Billabongs are slow. But blue is still firing, Mackerel are still attacking, fishos are still getting married, and Paki Andy is still complaining.
Barra from Shoal in 23 degrees, a daughter exacts fishing revenge on her mother and how fishing helps recovery from open heart surgery
Progress on Blue Mud Bay negotiations that could see fishing access to more of the Top End coast. Crabs are plentiful through the harbour, and blue water conditions remain the best bet for a feed.
Dundee continues to produce quality reefies, coastal areas turning up barra for the persistent and beware the razor sharp teeth of the Spanish Mackerel.
The nude jewie pose returns! Plus the future of NT fishing protection areas... and high school lure making at its best.
Goliath tripletail (again), stacks of shady threadies (again), new artificial reefs on the way...plus tuna, chooks...and what it's like to spend 21 hours clinging to your upturned hull.
Fishos aghast at multiple hundreds of dead fish off the Dundee coast, in what appears to be by-catch from a nearby prawn trawler. Angler Jon Bloch and Adrianne Laird from the Northern Prawn Fishery spoke to Adam Steer.
Threadies still thick at shady, stonking reefies on the spear at Dundee, Lee Point pelagic cuisine tips…and how it feels to drop a 150kg-plus fish.
It's the Tinny all Over this week as we try to hunt a place out of the wind to find a barra, while some fishos find the south easterlies are just blowing their lures straight in their face!
The Tales from the Tinny Fishing First Party releases its first, and only, election policy to resolve the age old quandry of the adventurer; too many toys, not enough towbars. Vote 1, Vote Often for the TFTFFP DRT
Rivers are low and blue is blowy. But top of the South is producing fish as is the harbour.
Kakadu rivers start to turn it up, and the going gets tough (and shallow) on the Daly for the Barra Classic.
Over 20ks out to sea and he arrived tired, lonely and in need of a rest. So these boys followed the law of the sea and came to his aid.
Blue water continues to produce across the Top End, but here come the South Easters! How it feels when your first fish is a 105 Barra and an outlook for dry season fishing the big rivers.
It's Easter and weather is looking fine for the bluewater, and some of the upper reaches of big rivers could fire as well.
The wet is done, the dry season is on its way. As are the billies, the mackies and even Corroboree is starting to fish. But forget the Daly for the moment.
Shoal Bay, South Alligator, the Tiwis and Daly River all feature on the Tinny this week. And how to be a better deckie!
Tales from the Tinny this week celebrates the finely tuned athletes, the ninjas of the Top End fishing community.
Big girls still gracing brag mats. Plus FADs doing houdinis, noodles doing jewies, and merit-based comp inclusion out the window.
How to catch GT's with just sausage and a lasso. Shady becoming hard work on the springs, as the blue water fires.
He's one of Darwin's favourite fisho's, having amassed over 1000 land based barra, and is often seen heading out for a fish on his trusty scooter.
The Tinny is taken over for International Women's Day, as reports flood in of Shady on fire for big girls!
Blue water, Darwin Harbour, Shady Camp neaps, Daly at night and of all things - the Adelaide! There is hope fishos and they've called it...this IS your runoff!
Shady, South and Kakadu fishing well. As is the blue water in between the Westerlies. Elsewhere a struggle thanks to lack of rain. But there is hope, the Tinny boys have flogged the GPS Marks for ten $5000 MDF Charity fish in the harbour, and are leaking them this week. Just like Julian Assange!
The Tinny has infiltrated MDF HQ and accessed confidential top-secret data. The GPS marks for ten more $5000 charity Barra!! You've got five weeks left. What are you waiting for?
Blue water fishing exceptional if you can escape the wind, and now there's $20,000 of barra in the water for you to hunt. Including the GPS marks to make it even easier.
All four $5000 MDF Charity tagged Tales from the Tinny barra are now in the water! The Vic 78cm, West Arm 55cm, Leaders 85cm and the Adelaide 68cm. Listen to hear the GPS marks.
The stakes were high out at Shady Camp, NT over the weekend. Kevin had a cunning plan, if his girlfriend Harn landed her first barra, she was a keeper!
As we hurtle towards Xmas and the first monsoon, fishos go hard hunting meteries across the coast and mouths of the big rivers.
Big barra at the big mouths, and reports from across the blue water and harbours as the wet approaches.
The Government puts a $10 million offer to the NLC over Blue Mud Bay access, and the blue water fires up in earnest.
As the NLC and NTG remain at loggerheads over Blue Mud Bay access, fishing guides say the uncertainty is threatening their businesses.
Adult themes for juvenile minds. Or is it the other way around? Whichever...if you are squeamish or easily offended by repeated references to the 'sensitive' regions of the male anatomy, do not listen.
A Tinny welcome for the Japanese PM and Inpex dignitaries, fishos face lockouts as Blue Mud Bay negotiations breakdown and great barra fishing from the Tiwi's to the harbours.
The Northern Land Council has given the Government till December 4th to negotiate, or they will lock out all fishermen from up to 80 per cent of the Territory's coastline.
A fishing misadventure got serious quick for the group of lads as they headed home 'for a burger'.
The second $5000 Charity barra is in the water. Dundee boat ramp to be fixed, and bumper bluewater and barra fishing.
Fishos frustrations over the state of the Dundee boat ramp, the second busiest in the Territory, boiled over this week. Local fisherman Aaron describes the risks, Opposition leader Gary Higgins weighs in, and Fisheries Minister Ken Vowles committs to finding a solution.
NT fisherman Chris Wood didn't know what to do when he felt the box jellyfish wrap around his legs.
Police have started issuing on the spot fines to fishos anchoring in the Darwin Harbour shipping channel, as the Port Corporation calls for more education, training and testing. And a system for vessel ID.
The release of four trial 'Fish Aggregating Devices' six weeks ago is already proving effective, with predators moving in
The second Tales from the Tinny MDF Charity fish is in the water, worth $2500 to charity and $2500 to whoever catches it. Here is exactly where it was released.
The Tinny's second $5000 Charity fish is in the water for you to catch. Rumours of another $10k barra on the Adelaide, and how to get amongst them yourself.
Cooler water on the first of the push in tide in the estuaries, and night fishing the bongs seems to be catching the Barra. Results from the Billfish Challenge and the release of GPS marks for where to find the first $5000 Charity tagged fish.
The Tinny Boys, with Harry Renfree and Mal Roney have tagged and released a 78cm MDF Charity Fish worth $5000 on the Vic River. $2500 to you, the rest to charity. Here is precisely where it was released!
'10K in the ice tray baby!' Territory Fisho Basil Te Aho and his 83 year old Dad, Kimgi left their barra in the freezer for two weeks, before taking it out for a cook up yesterday...
The Tinny are releasing $20,000 of tagged barra for you to catch. Half will go to one of three NT based charities, including the Hayden Reynolds Project which helps train Indigenous kids to be fishing guides on the Tiwi Islands, NT
Another run in with a big saltie for Kai Hansen at Goat Island on the Adelaide River, NT.
Boaties were surprised to see two blokes up to their chests in Hope Inlet, Shoal Bay at the weekend. Just across the creek from a croc trap with a 2m saltie in it.
It's between Pelican Point and Green Island. But how do you know it will still be there?
Find out where the first $5000 Charity Barra has been released. And electric reports from the Bluewater.
Danny Vanbrugh has a life and death Territory tale to take home after a crazed beast ripped him apart. He's spent the last 14 days in hospital and undergone multiple surgeries to fix the gaping holes left by a Buffalo attack in remote NT.
Now we've got $20,000 worth of MDF Charity Barra for you to catch! And all reports this week indicate they're getting bigger and hungrier as the weather really stinks up ...
Four $5000 fish. And we'll tell you EXACTLY where they are so you can catch them! $2500 to you, $2500 to charity. Listen here to find out how.
But it didn't all go to plan. Where was it released? How to catch it? And what went wrong?
The release of the Tinny's first $5000 barra into Top End waters for you to catch, how the harbour is fishing for barra and bluewater sails.
More Million $$ Fish in the water this year, so where to catch them? As the build up gets underway in earnest the Tinny Boys head to the billabong and the blue to find out.
There will be five Million Dollar Fish in the water this year, and they will stay 'live' all year. And 20 x $5000 Charity Fish are to be released as well.
The metre-long 10kg fish launched from the water at 40km/hr, knocking her to the ground in a pool of blood, and just missing all her major blood vessels.
Leaving Emperor biting, eating Muddies until you poison yourself and a 'Chopper Eye View' of the Top End floodplains as the build up approaches.
A step by step guide to fishing Dundee, and plenty of barra showing up around the coastal foreshores and estuaries.
How the Barra are holding in the middle of the bongs, a new fish attracting device launched offshore - with GPS marks! And how the Daly is looking as we approach the build up.
Big Barra from Bynoe flats, neap tides for Daly and Vic and how to pull eight cobia from underneath the belly of a Manta Ray.
A leadership spill has seen Rob Smith kicked off the Tinny, and the boys launch their new Territory Masterbrand. Meanwhile Vic the is fishing well, as is the blue water.
It's a phrase commonly used on the Tinny. A phrase that encapsulates who we really are and what we really stand for. A phrase that represents the coming together of like minded Territorians. Don’t let them tell you what you are fishos, just be WHO you are…
One hundred free jumping metre Barramundi harass fishos off the Territory coast and the TFT Stickers cause controversy - with lawyers at ten paces!
The Tinny you've been waiting for, featuring plenty of Mud Crab porn and Mud Crab science. Meanwhile bongs and flats continue to fish well for dry season barra.
The likelihood of fishing permits for 80% of the Territory coastline, coastal flats and Corroboree fishing well for big barra, and is it time to replace the swear word 'beeeeeep!'
Everyone is back on deck this week, including Neville the drunken Albatross after a two year stint in rehab!
Old dogs know that revenge is sweet, families clean up as holidays wind up and we launch one of our own into the high RPM puckered freckle zone.
The Jewie jamboree continues, the Bongs are packed and a Darwin Harbour masterclass you just can't miss. Tales from the Tinny is a fishing show - sort of
How to beat the dry season winds to still bring home fish, what to do with the kids on holidays and why you should hang onto your bladders!
All eyes are on the Billabongs. The Tinny hears reports from Corroborree, Yellow Waters and beyond. The ALC rejects evidence from AFANT for the Mary River and Channel Point area land claim and are you looking for somewhere to take the kids fishing these school holidays?
Things get heated again this week as the boys debate 'franken foods' and the honour of the Mullet!
Confession is good for the soul. The fellas find a mob of guilt racked fishos queuing up to unburden themselves from the canker poisoning their souls.
What would you do if you came across the biggest mob of crocs sunbaking on a sandbank at the Daly River? One local fisho, Wade Kelly, deployed his drone for a closer look.
Slamming slappers in a puddle, Kakadu, Yellow Waters and Corroboree are firing and the vexacious issue of dealing with number ones on the water.
Leigh McNair's been back to the same puddle on the Roper River. This one went 92cm! Sometimes all you need is a tiny bathtub sized waterhole in the Territory!
After taunting Casey the Saltwater Crocodile for nine years, Pippa the terrier (otherwise known as the 'dumb blonde') has finally run out of luck. WARNING: This content contains graphic and disturbing vision.
What was it like to catch meteries off Cahills in 1982? And as the dry kicks in barra turn up in Corroboree, as do pelagics off shore.
Who's ever heard of an Undie Club? Or an NT emblem that looks more like a Carp than a Barra? Or a Police Commissioner who refuses to take responsibility for poor angling practice and getting marooned?
The Government this week gazetted a picture of a Barramundi as the official NT Emblem. So why are fishos so angry?
Lures in thumbs, nude table sliding, dropping meteries and Royal Weddings. The Tinny has it all this week.
Finniss & Daly producing Barra in the two major comps underway, as Corroboree continues to perform for Long-Tom, Archer Fish and Mouth Almighty. And an 89 year old Great Grandmother nails her first Barra.
Eileen Marshall has always dreamed of catching a big barra, but she's can't swim and is too scared of water. Or she was, until now.
Fishos worried about a series of land claims that could threaten access to some prime waters. Unbelievable number of billfish off Dundee, reports on how the Daly is fishing following the Nats, and yet another red tagged fish caught out of season - ouch!
Two 'bed and bank' claims being considered at the moment could affect access to parts of the Chambers Bay coast, Cape Hotham, Shady freshwater, Shady boat ramp, Mary River Bridge Lagoon, the Channel Point & Perons coastline, the mouth of the Reynolds River and the Roper River. Tales from the Tinny spoke with Ward Keller Partner, Kevin Stephens and AFANT CEO, David Ciarovolo.
The band's back together this week and as usual no one's quite sure who's banging the drums. Reports from everywhere worth knowing; Corroboree, Shady, East, South, Daly and Offshore.
Horses, Slappers, Metereys! You know the Barra fishing is good when anything under 90 is ignored.
Catching Barra while peeing even without a rod in your hand and how does a 100+ barra sessions at Shady and Daly sound?
But police would have the power to breatho following on water incidents. NT Attorney General Natasha Fyles explained the changes to the Tinny.
Crocs eating crocs, choppers lifting boats. And how a father and his sons won the Timber Creek fishing competition with a meter plus Barra.
When things started getting desperate on the Baines over Easter, it was time to call in an air rescue!
Reeling from the ball tampering scandal. Andy from Tales from the tinny set out to achieve an ambitious goal. Score a ton....of Barra!
Access to Bynoe and Cox Peninsula have been restricted under the Kenbi land claim, but is it actually a good compromise for Territory Fishos?
Everywhere is primed to fire this Easter and fishos are ready to roll. The tinny looks at the best options to snare a ton of Barra. As Andy proves it can be done !
The sound of post-Cyclone chainsaws, and a stolen motor case cracked. Plenty of Barra too as Darwin mops up and fisho’s keep on fishing.
A surprising number of fishos can tell you exactly what it's like. As TC Marcus made landfall they were fishing the Daly and getting sandblasted in the face!
The final map is released showing sacred sites and access restrictions to Cox Peninsula and Bynoe Harbour under the Kenbi Land Claim. But AFANT and fishos are far from happy.
As we look down the barrel of a tropical cyclone, it’s the Shady and Daly show. And we hear from someone who beat the odds and landed a metery with half a fishing rod.
After Kerry landed this Barra her wearable fitness tracker said her heart rate was at 120 bpm and her stress level was one notch off heart attack. Empirical data that a big Barra fishing gets the blood pumping!
Kelli Carol tells the story of her husband Eddie's pain. And boy it hurts. Here's hoping it was from Season 1 or 2!
The snake spiralled up his fishing line and bit him on the hand. Yet he continued to fish for two days. And caught some big barra!
The Tinny Boys hit up NT Primary Industries Minister Ken Vowles on the government's plan for 0.05 drink driving limit.
Shady starts to fire with big Barra and a boggy road. Tension builds over Tarpon talk. And why did one fisho bury his whole bait freezer underground?
Shady and Finniss start to fish, landing metre barra in your undies, which Territory guide ran out of fuel? And one fisho gets the best Valentine day present ever!
A marriage proposal on the Tinny this week. She tried to throw him overboard but will she say 'I do'? And fishos get a musical toilet.
Like it or not, we're back! A Territory mum goes all commando and takes to a croc inhabited river to catch her barra, and bugger the culverts its been so wet they're even catching barra from on top of the road.
It's Xmas and for the last show of 2017 we take a look back at the curious, outrageous and downright disturbing yarns that made the Tinny.
Reports all over of the big horse Barra, but which way to head is still the challenge! PFAS in our iconic fish around Katherine. And how a little annoying March Fly can render you unconscious and stranded in Top End waterways
This week, it’s raining meterys at Shady, the Roper and the Finniss, but only for those willing to wait the hours (or days) for the bite window. Fishing with the World Cup Rugby players. Homemade lures and homebrewed beer.
This week, fishos questioning netting at Shady, laughter and tears at the Roper, the rig continues its merry dance... and spearos hit the Vernons in search of clarity.
Massive Marlin, Massive Jacks, Massive barra, Massive jewies. The tinny has recovered from it's AFT and is back to normal, massive as ever. PIC: Courtesy Colin Burdon.
The Tinny attempts its first ever alcohol free day. But could they pull it off? East Alligator fires for some, as does the bluewater. And one fisho's squatting cat moves back in to his boat!
Teasers and Tragedy - A Billfish Story. Hours spent fighting Marlin off the Territory coast and another $10k fish landbased.
This week, a Top End guide lets a cuckoo into his nest...Darwin spearos hit the Vernon Islands...a $10K barra is caught on squid...and a fisho dangles from the bow while his six-year-old daughter out-fishes him.
The prospect of breath-o's for fishos, two more red tags bite the dust, a harbour metery... and a poem.
Red tag fever grips the Top End. The Tinny formulates a Piscatorial 'prenup' to avoid ugly scenes post capture, and the boys press the case for a fishing public holiday - all the way to Parliament House!
Shoal Bay tips from 5-year-olds and veterans. With victory cometh dry-retching out at Shady Camp. And two years, two red tags - first winner in 2017 Million Dollar Fish comp.
Outrage over fish dumped in the bush. Macks still about. A popper thoroughly ravaged offshore. Million Dollar Fish about to kick off. And a famous boat-less, car-less fisho mods... his new scooter.
Pelagics still thick across some parts of the Top End. Big Rivers fishing well. And Dad and Daughter bonding over metre Barramundi.
NT Field and Game have met with Government to begin a push to increase the Magpie Goose Bag limit this season.
Fancy using a baitcaster with no thumb, fancy launching your boat without the bungs, fancy landing a 1.2m Barra landbased! It all happened this week on the Tinny.
Finally justice for one robbed fisho, as others learn some key lessons on the water in the Top End; the boat should float, and crocs are real! Meanwhile harbour flats fishing is still very productive as are Kakadu Billabongs for dry season barra.
Luck, like the tides, can just ebb and flow for Top End fishos. As one man catches a $10,000 fish only to find he was ineligible, another severs an artery 90k’s offshore. Meanwhile on the other side of the coin, one fisho discovers how to hook nearly thirty Jewies in two hours - just eight minutes from home.
The Tinny Boys headed out to Corroboree Billabong with the Australian Cricket side to help the team refine their sledging skills, in preparation for their tour of Bangladesh.
As Confucius infiltrates the Tinny again this week, fishos learn some hard lessons. Karma launches a two year assault on one man and eventually sinks his boat, while Warren De With learns that pride comes before the hardest of falls.
Billfish are everywhere off the coast and some fishos are so excited they're swimming with them. Others are catching them with only two rusty old hooks, no skirts and no sounder. Meanwhile 85 dry season barra in Anson Bay and 50 barra sessions on the Adelaide!
A glorious leaping Barramudi cake has been robbed at the Royal Darwin Show, why one poor fisho has had to resort to lure earings instead of actually fishing and what's the worst car you could drive into Kakadu 4WD country?
Jewies on both hook and spear, new 12ft PBs, barra learning to boof...and a heroic soft plastic saves the day.
This week on the Tinny, the multiple claims of capture upon a single Goldie, what a water policeman sees when he peers into eskies across the Top End, and recipe ideas from the corridors of AFANT…all set against the vague threat of nuclear annihilation.
How to recycle every part of your barra, including the scales, to bust out a campfire tune or two. And you know how they always strike at the most inconvenient times? How would you cope if you were expressing milk when the big one struck?
A special edition of the Tinny Podcast, jammed with tips for family fishing these school holidays. But things get ugly when chickens and dogs start chasing the kids' lures, and a deranged cat squats in one man's boat for two months - preventing him from fishing at all!
During the intense Jewfish bite of the 2017 Wet Season, the Tinny boys thought a theme song was in order.
Look out! Stories of Barra on demand inspire Rob and Tim to head back to the recording studios. And why everyone needs a 'Jimmy' in a crisis.
How to pump and wind with your pants down. Daly river fishing well for pigs and "It was as good as catching a metery," reckons Warren De Wit.
As the Top End settles into the Dry Season, so the rest of Australia looks North. To where the grass is metaphorically much greener. At least craft beer hasn't taken hold yet.
A man not interested in the fishing, just the drinking, gets donged on the head by an 80cm Barramundi as punishment. And the broad Tinny family takes over the mic and files report from the Daly and beyond.
The Tinny Boys draw inspiration from Confucius, Buddah and Monkey Magic this week but find themselves disappearing up their own philosophical fundament