Bag a Barra — 3 September 2021

It's time to head to the Top End and Baga Barra with Glenn Watty Watts. Thanks to Shimano. Remember to buy local and fish local. Visit shamanofish.com.au.

Well, the Million Dollar Fish is on up there in the northern territory, and I remember last year we were talking about this and some girl pulled up at a survey, spent $10 on a hand rule and won 10,000 or something. I mean, how good is it? But Watty, you'd be into an HOB, wouldn't you, mate? Taking them before you go out and chase that $10000 barrow?

Well, it sounds like I might need to get a jar. Good stuff, mate. See, we can't send you some. Yeah, yeah, right, give me the extra zing in me step.

Yeah, mate, just look after you. You know what I mean? I mean, for a bloke, you know, you hammer yourself. So, you know, on the cans.

I mean this will just, you know, protect yourself a little bit better with this stuff. Nature B, PowerPoint, right? That's right, yeah. Could be handy next weekend. got me 40th birthday party next weekend.

Well, that'd be me. All right, mate, quickly. that 1000000 the 40th? What are you serious?

How many 40th have you had? No, mate, I actually thought I was 26 until someone told me I was 40 this week. So anyway, there you go. Well, mate, I remember having my 50th.

That was quite a few years ago now. It was not good. Well, I still feel like I'm 18. So mate, I'm happy.

Now, mate, just quickly, because we haven't got a lot of time, but the $1000000 fish is on. Yeah, well, they're gearing up for it now. They started all the advertising actually starts on the 1st of October. Um so that's exciting.

They're tagging all the fish right now and there's going to be more changes than ever. Of course, every year, the $1000000 fish stays in the, in the circuit and adds up. So I think there's 8 chances um for the $1000000 fishbacks. Got an email, someone about it.

I might even have the tag numbers here, which is interesting. So, yeah, well, um, we'll see how that goes. Um, the fishing's been good all year, so it should be, they should have no trouble actually catching the fish to tag them, and then hopefully we have no trouble catching them back again and and make a bit of coin before Christmas. Yeah, I'm right in what I said.

Wasn't there some girl who spent, you know, 3 fifths or nothing at the survey, bought a hand line and caught a fish worth 10,000? Is that right? Last year? Yeah, dead right, yeah.

Just walk down to the nightcliff jetty, just off the bank there and with a pilch and a bait and heline, she just bought it a servo and yeah, got a got one of those tag bar 10 grand cash, not a bad sort of afternoon stroll, I suppose. You've got to be happy with that. Now, what's the biggest, the fish with the biggest tag price on it? Do you know?

Is it is it the 1000000 or is there a 1000000 all up? Is it always? There is a $1000000 barrel. Yeah, that's right. So there's there's actually 8 individual fish now that have built up over the years that have all got tag numbers that have got a $1000000 attached to them and then they have over a 100 of the $10,000 fish as well.

So yeah, there's there's plenty of air coins loading around out there if you get lucky. So there's been blokes up here over the years that have taken a month off work to go and try and catch. Oh, they could be right sort of thing and... Hasn't worked entirely well. The month off work to try and jag the big one.

Only the Northern territory, mate. I love it. How good is it? All right, so the $1000000 fishes, the $1000000 fish is on and it's all happening.

So that'll be starting October, which it's a great it's a great idea to, geez, it's great for the fishing business up there and tourism as a whole. I think it's, whoever come up with, it's a genius. Great idea, mate.

All right. Well, mate, you get, we'll see we can send you up some nature bees. And, look, by the way, thanks. I'm just, I'll just go round to the post office and check that mailbox again just to see if that invite to that 40th is there. I got lost in the mail, mate, they don't let the posties down New South Wales these days.

No, I know. Oh, I know. Oh mate, one day we'll be out there. Oh, I can't wait.

All right. Well, mate, you enjoy. Let you get back into it and get yourself underway for that big 40th and we'll talk to you next week if you... So what's on this weekend, the 40th, yeah? Oh, yeah, I turned up, no, next weekend.

Oh, next? Oh, okay, sweet. All right. Well, mate, we'll warm you up for that as well, and then we'll, and we'll see how you pull up after that. All right, mate.

Talk to you soon. Good on you mate. There he is. That, of course, is Glenn Watt.

You can check him out. Barefoot Fishing Safaris. The number one, well, he's our number one anyway, when it comes to your fishing guides in the Top End, and of course, the Northern Territory. He is the best in the business.

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