ABC Tales from the Tinny

10/01/2024

Missing Tales from the Tinny?

Fret not! You can still access the boys and their wild antics on the ABC Listen app! Including their epic 5 HOUR long finale! 🐟🐟🐟

OG Tinny host Rob Smith, and long time Tinny producer Beard came into the ABC studio to sing Meter Long Barra one last time for ABC Radio Darwin listeners, with featured vocals from some of the ABC Darwin News crew. 🎤🎶

The lyrics were written by Rob and are sung to the tune of Elvis Presley's Viva Las Vegas. 🕺

What was your favourite moment from the Tales from the Tinny?

🎧Stream episodes of the Tales from the Tinny podcast: https://bit.ly/3RSobAf

15/12/2023

17 years ago Tim Moore and Rob Smith came up with a radio show about fishing… sort of.

Now with almost 800 podcasts under the belt, we’ve been honoured to bring to life just some of the beautiful madness that is Territory fishing for you. This is our last offering, & you’re gonna need a few hours for this one!

To everyone who’s supported to the show since 2006, our sincere gratitude. Tight lines & GET AN ETERNAL MULLET UP YA!🥳🐟🦀🍌

📢🐟THE FINAL MULLET: 🔈🎧 https://ab.co/3N9uRZp
On Apple podcasts: https://apple.co/3RoSNKI
On Google podcasts: https://bit.ly/3RpeEBX

15/12/2023

Proper ABC article laying down just a few of highlights from over the years, fishos. Way way WAY more reminiscing in the five-odd-hour final podcast this arv. 💪🏽🍻

After 17 years and close to 800 episodes, the boys from ABC's Tales from the Tinny are hanging up their rods and calling it a day, recording their final episode.

11/12/2023

Cheers to all who came on Friday for bulk frothies and proper waffle. Even made the telly! 😆👌📺
📢Last podcast up THIS FRIDAY (with a big dose of vintage Tinny). And heads up: you’ll need a long drive or a big sesh on the water to listen to it in one sitting!🤘🎧🤘

08/12/2023

Pete the Buddha has flown up from NE Vicco to attend the Tinny’s Frothy Waffle this arvo (🍹Ski club from 330pm - all welcome🍹). Tell ya what his day started well, with this 80+cm chunk off the ramp at Corroboree. Well played!👌🏼🍻

📢ON DA POD: The Penultimate Mullet. Warren’s 1989 whoopsie. Fisheries on Rec Fishing Development plan. And Pete sends it one last time. 🤘

Grab it: 🔈🎧 https://ab.co/3N9uRZp
On Apple podcasts: https://apple.co/3RoSNKI
On Google podcasts: https://bit.ly/3RpeEBX

01/12/2023

Speed, access, solitude – just some of the benefits of fishing from a jetski. Brado here reckons it’s the ultimate vessel for barra fishing close to Darwin (his even has croc protection). And it makes an excellent tuna-chaser to boot. 🤟🏽

Tinny pod: 🎧🔈https://ab.co/3N9uRZp
On Apple podcasts: https://apple.co/3RoSNKI
On Google podcasts: https://bit.ly/3RpeEBX

01/12/2023

Jo’s annual Roper trip went well, including this 111cm stonker (she may have said the words “I don’t wanna do it!” mid-fight, but that’s ok 🤣). Taylor Swift tunes pumping gave her the real edge though. “If doof-doof gets the boof-boof”, she says “then Tay-Tay gets the pay-day.” 🎵

📢ON DA POD: All-time Shoal Bay. Jetski barra fishing. And squid paternoster a $20K earner.

Tinny pod: 🎧🔈https://ab.co/3N9cUdl
On Apple podcasts: https://apple.co/3N7TyWi
On Google podcasts: https://bit.ly/3N7wjeQ

20/11/2023

Our second (and last 😭) Xmas pageant done and dusted, with (almost) the whole team back together and on board. Turns out casting and retrieving helium fish through the CBD can be "tricky". 👀😅
Thanks to all for the show of support 👊

18/11/2023

⚠️Next time you go to throw out that old hose fitting, or that scrap bit of sarking, ask yourself: COULD THAT BE A LURE?!🧐

The answer is...yes. 💡

Burky here took out the Timor Box trip DIY lure comp with his mackie caught on the hose fitting popper.

Honourable mention has to go to the spanner jig creating "The Cod Briefcase"🐟💼✅

Tinny pod: 🎧🔈 https://ab.co/3q3NMMK
On Apple podcasts: https://apple.co/3kJ31FS
On Google podcasts: https://bit.ly/3kJ39oQ

17/11/2023

Darwin might seem a strange place to learn to how to spearfish. 🐟

The visibility is rarely more than five metres. There’s the boxxies & the crocs & sharks. But for Eliza it’s a window into another world that's worth it. “If I die, I’m dying doing what I love,” she says. “And I’m not gonna stop cos I'm scared.”

The species on offer (such as trout and goldies) aren’t too bad either. 🍽🍻

Hear it on the pod: 🔈🎧 https://ab.co/3q3NMMK
On Apple podcasts: https://apple.co/3kJ31FS
On Google podcasts: https://bit.ly/3kJ39oQ

17/11/2023

When Zane and his mates do a landbased trip, by god they do it right. The latest remote NT mission yielded a 24kg mack on spin, a bunch of solid longtails and some gobsmacking reefies. 😤
📢ON DA POD: Learning to spearfish in Darwin. Trolling a cow in the ‘bong. Billfish classic win. Family time and a 119. And mackerel via hose fittings and sarking. 🤔
Grab it: 🎧🔈https://ab.co/3q3NMMK
On Apple podcasts: https://apple.co/3kJ31FS
On Google podcasts: https://bit.ly/3kJ39oQ
📸: Zane Cappo

10/11/2023

Just another Shoal bay barra notched up by Jimmy recently. When it was suggested he was probably overdue for a doughnut, Jimmy replied “I’d happily welcome a doughnut. Less fish to fillet.” 😎

📢ON DA POD: TEBS winner emerges from the shadows. Big billy weekend. Fishing line bins at Darwin spots. And The Tinny calls it. 🎻

Grab it: 🎧🔈 https://ab.co/3q3NMMK
On Apple podcasts: https://apple.co/3kJ31FS
On Google podcasts: https://bit.ly/3kJ39oQ

10/11/2023

🐟🐟What role has Tinny played in your life over the years? 🐟🐟

Some sad news fishos. 2023 will be the last for Tales from the Tinny.🎻

We’ll be wrapping at the end of the year, basically because… it’s time. We’ve had an incredible run – some 17 years – not thanks to us but entirely to you. To all of you who’ve graced the halls of Tinny over the years, since two over-enthusiastic and totally naïve fishaholics stepped up to the mic in 2006, essentially with one goal: to share a froffy and a waffle with like-minded Territorians.

So we’re choosing to kill this thing humanely rather than let it flap about unceremoniously on the deck dying a long slow death.

The longevity of the Tinny is a phenomenon, and testament to your enduring support, passion and humour, fishos. And we’ve been bloody privileged to do it.

It’ll be just shy of 800 episodes by the time we wrap it on December 15 – a disgusting amount of fishing-related irreverence! And an unacceptable number of times people have been instructed to “GETAMULLETUPYA!” 🤭

So we’re sad to go but wanna celebrate what the Tinny is, and want your input for the last few shows. What role has the Tinny played in your life (for better or worse) over the years?

Tim, Andy and Beard🐟🍻✊🏼

03/11/2023

“Make sure you go out with a mate in his boat that’s got a lot of money in tech,” says Jase after taking out the Top End Barra Series billabong round.
“Also helps if they’ve been fishing there the last few months & have found where the fish are holding. He netted all my fish so he was called ‘scoop’ for the trip.” 🙄😁
📢ON DA POD: Buildup barra state of play with the master. The Agony and Ecstasy of Haggis. And Late Night Livescope on the ‘bong.

Grab it: 🎧🔈 https://ab.co/3q3NMMK
On Apple podcasts: https://apple.co/3kJ31FS
On Google podcasts: https://bit.ly/3kJ39oQ

03/11/2023

🐟RED TAG ALERT! 🎯
Loren and her partner had devoted solid hours fishing the Kakadu billabongs specifically to track down an MDF tagged barra. Huge days. Fully committed.
Then, almost two weeks and 20K casts later, it happened. 🤯💪🙌
(⚠️slight language warning on this one fishos🤭)

27/10/2023

The chinaman upgrades kept coming off Groote, the sesh culminating in Chris Cullen's 96cm donkey. “Coulda been an NT record,” says Dwayne. “But we just took a photo and threw her back. Geez they pull hard but ay.” 💪
📢ON DA POD: How to help reduce sharkings. Reefies aplenty as build up intensifies. And Cal finds the mud. 👀⚠️
Grab it:🔈🎧 https://ab.co/3q3NMMK
On Apple podcasts: https://apple.co/3kJ31FS
On Google podcasts: https://bit.ly/3kJ39oQ
📸: Dwayne Devanny