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Tales from the Tinny

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Fishing, fish and more fishing tales from the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Episodes

  1. Tales from the Tinny: THE FINAL MULLET.

    Its been a wild ride on the virtual vessel that is Tales from the Tinny.

  2. Tinny Podcast #795: The Penultimate Mullet!

    The madness and majesty and mayhem and magic.

  3. Tinny Podcast #794: Donkey stonkers. Jetski barra. Squid paternoster = $20K. And Taylor Swift provides the edge on the Roper.

    "It's nice to kick its arse for once after having my arse kicked so many times."

  4. Tinny Podcast #793: Learning to spearfish in Darwin. Cow 'bong troll. Mackies off the stones (and off hose fittings).

    That's not a fishing show! THIS is a fishing show! Sort of.

  5. Tinny Podcast #792: 20K casts for a tag. TEBS winner shows himself. Big billfish weekend. And The Tinny calls time.

    "It's been a disgusting amount of fishing-related irreverence."

  6. Tinny Podcast #791: Build up barra state of play with the master. And Late Night Livescope on the 'bong.

    Five hours sleep over two nights.

  7. Tinny Podcast #790: Reducing shark depredation. The metery that almost was. And the bogging of Cal.

    "You wouldn't think there'd be any mud this time of year, but I found it."

  8. Tinny Podcast #789: Barra sausages! Optimising surface lures. The day the stickface turned on.

    Just the mayhem the doctor ordered.

  9. Tinny Podcast #788: Go west (for reds). Darwin land based buildup barra. And fish spike leads to hospitalisation.

    "They had me on two drips, it was a close call."

  10. Tinny Podcast #787: Flatties! The fishing comp between two desert towns. First red tag goes off. And don't look at the mackerel.

    "I'm just gonna sit down and cry."

  11. Tinny Podcast #786: Could you fish with only one lure? Big barra on live imaging.

    What are the other 80 lures doing in your tackle bag?

  12. Tinny Podcast #785: All hail the mantis shrimp. Landbased GTs. And best start to Shoal build up ever?

    Nobody messes with the mantis shrimp.

  13. Fly-tyers of the Top End 3: The Silver Fox

    "I didn't even have a rod, but I was busy tying these flies out of chook feathers."

  14. Tinny Podcast #784: Why not to brag. Bynoe fly comp wrap. And can barra recognise faces?

    The test of a fish called Murphy.

  15. Tinny Podcast #783: Fishing tiny tides. Cooking despised fish. Women's comp wrap.

    "You just about poop yourself."

  16. Tinny Podcast #782: Nostrils flare at prospect of build up. Women's comp team primed for victory and/or snorkels.

    Not the swimming kind.

  17. Tinny Podcast #781: Andy goes to school camp. Harbour chockers with rats. And is mother-in-law fish sort of ok?

    Questionable. But not out of the question.

  18. Tinny Podcast #780: Tragedy, superstition and the barra head. The spring/neap tides of life.

    "We don't know what we don't know."

  19. Tinny Podcast #779: Dongin' the 'bong. Tagged Gulf billfish heads to Indo...but where are the rest?

    "We really had no idea what migrations they were making in the Timor and Arafura seas."

  20. Tinny Podcast #778: The Mud Crab makes it. Underwater roadkill? And why tie flies.

    "I love you Mud Crab!"

  21. Underwater roadkill? How barra were acquired during the Mudcrab's recording-breaking underwater voyage

    "It's almost more crazy than the mission itself."

  22. Fly-tyers of the Top End 2: Chris Hurt

    "They're not art critics, they're fish."

  23. The mission to drive underwater across Darwin harbour: Tinny meets the crew

    "It's been steep learning curve in figuring out how to keep water away from things."

  24. Tinny Podcast #777: Driving a car across Darwin seabed. Beer in the workplace. The fine art of painting barra.

    Like it was sanded with a brick and painted with a live chicken.

  25. Paint a barra? The Top End fisho bringing fish to life through art

    "Ill be up at 3am trying to get a scale just right."

  26. Tinny Podcast #776: Fly-tyers of the Top End. The Musgrove boys hit the rig. And mackies c/o tablespoons?

    Raiding the cutlery draw probably unwise.

  27. Fly-tyers of the Top End: Watty

    "It's my number one procrastination, and sometimes I gotta pack it all away cos I really should be doing other things."

  28. Tinny Podcast #775: Squid sashimi! Hazza on bazza. And options aplenty for the school hols.

    "No fishing, no life!"

  29. How to make squid sashimi with Darwin's Yuki Tatebe

    "Freshness and good preparation is very important."

  30. Tinny Podcast #774: Too many 90's on the Daly. Muddies muddies muddies. And V8s vs fishing.

    It's a legit hard decision.

  31. Tinny Podcast #773: Killer whales off Dundee? Jewfish Meunière. A lesson in squidding. And feeling it vs…not feeling it.

    The transition can be swift.

  32. Tinny Podcast #772: Hunting buffalo with an e-bike. How to catch "mini marlin".

    "Don't catch the queen bee!"

  33. Using an electric bike to hunt buffalo

    "It's so quiet, last time I ran right up the buffalo's arse."

  34. Tinny Podcast #771: The Lost Donkey. Hiro's dry season musings. Rocky gets vibing.

    Cos it's just the…vibe.

  35. Tinny Podcast #770: Spearing 15kg fish in two metre visibility. Shoal, bong and bluewater check-in as temps go south.

    "Even ran the blanket. That was nice for a change."

  36. Tinny Podcast #769: Tough round at Bynoe. Terry's Barra Classic takeaways and b-sides.

    "How comfortable are you being called an elite athlete?"

  37. Darwin fisho catches his muddies with cane toads

    No hallucinations from consuming the crabs as yet.

  38. Tinny Podcast #768: Dispatches from the Barra Classic. Lawn bowler performs on the Adelaide. And where is the 'bong at?

    "Yeah we just thought we'd hit the sandbar for good measure."

  39. Tinny Podcast #767: Is it time to change live imaging comp rules? Man buys lures with one still embedded in chest and Shane Compain wins the Nats and looks forward to Classic.

    Where is Deniliquin anyway?

  40. Tinny Podcast #767: Cane toad crab bait. The human live imaging. Disaster at Shady ramp. And Merv Hughes gets a nine-for on the Vic.

    Cos at the end of the day, fishin's just fishin'.

  41. Lucky escape for fishos as car sinks at Shady Camp

    Things can go pear-shaped pretty fast.

  42. Tinny Podcast #766: High horsepower ride-ons, fishing the Vic & Daly, meteries on fizzers and how to deal with marketplace scammers

    I'm the horsepower whisperer...look out at the Katherine Show!

  43. Borroloola man catches prize-winning barra as MDF Season 8 wraps

    Possibly the best excuse for waking the neighbours yelling "I'm the champion!"

  44. Tinny Podcast #765: Big river fishing over Easter. Girls Gone Fishin' doneski. And the red-tagged barra of Borroloola.

    "I've never fished so hard in my life."

  45. Tinny Podcast #764: A Whole New World: how Aladdin shall punish. Wayno cleans out the Adelaide for $20K. And the cheapest tropical Air Con ever!

    It is actually a whole new world...

  46. No aircon? This DIY esky mod could be the answer

    Got nuff ice?

  47. Tinny Podcast #763: Cuddles cuddles a horse. Fishing high tide mangroves. And the lads find the tuna.

    Just outsource the fish measuring to another boat!

  48. Tinny Podcast #762: Most egalitarian meal ever? Helifishin' Jenno nabs a horse. And the red-tagged Manton metery.

    "You gotta be in it to win it. And we are very much IN IT."

  49. Tinny Podcast #761: Fisho's rejoice as big rivers chockers. Barra on the highway. And a helimusterer's flood perspective.

    "They'll almost be catching barra in the Tanami there's that much water."

  50. Tinny Podcast #760: Shady Camp 90's party. Fish tacos with a pro. Confessions of a trolling tragic.

    Big rain. Big fish.

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Fishing, fish and more fishing tales from the Northern Territory of Australia.

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