Tales From The Tinny

Cold water horses/donkies abound, and the cast deck ladder pays for itself in fish.

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.

When landing too many metre barras is a bad thing.

“Dunno if you’ve tried to reverse a boat that far but it’s not that great.”

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.

Shady continues it's run, the humble grunter...and ol' catty finds another victim.

"They just get uglier the deeper you go... but I love 'em."

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.

Fishos continue to find silver linings to covid-19

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 boys explore some unconventional, physically-distanced interview methods.