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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In some very exciting news for those who love a
spot of fishing. A fan have launched a land based
fishing guide with some of the top spots to head out.
If you don't have a boat, oh you know, maybe
you do, but you want to do some lamb based
fishing on the weekend. Now joining us in the studio
to tell us more is the CEO of Avant, David Girovolo.
(00:21):
Good morning David.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Good morning Katie, and good morning everyone.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Mate. I think this is fantastic And I tell you
what if I had this eighteen months ago when my
son started fishing, you want to help me out enormously.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Oh gosh.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I think the only problem with the book is that
we haven't brought it out quick enough.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
That's what That's what we're hearing Kate exactly.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Now again I will say I Reckon, it's a great guide.
Talk us through why you decided to put this out.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
So, as you've said today, we've launched the lamb based
Fishing Guide for Darwin and beyond. And look, the reason
for it is is that we know fishing in the
top end fishing in and around Darwin. It's one of
the best things about our lifestyle, and it's one of
the things that our New Territorians, people who want to
start fishing, people who've even been fishing but sort of
(01:09):
have never fished a particular spot before. Of course tourists
want to get out and catch a fish, but we've got.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Big tides, big seasonal variations.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah, always the chance well they need to be crock wise,
let's say out. And so the idea with this guide
is giving you all that intel about the spots in
and around Darwin, including down Catherine and Dundee, about what
tides to fish, what time of year to fish, how
to target different species. But it's designed to be accessible,
digestible and fits in the palm of your hand.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
It is fantastic, you know, and maybe it's maybe for
me it hits home so much because we've been going
through all of this, you know, for the last sort
of eighteen months, and we're at the point now where
my son knows where he likes to fish, he knows
what he's fishing for, all that kind of thing. But
for young ones or people that are older, it can
be quite daunting when you're first starting out going well,
(01:58):
where do I go If I'm going to East Point
obviously I'm keeping an eye on the tides, But what
do I need to fish there? Am I going lures?
Am I going you know bait? What am I fresh bait?
What am I using? All these questions David that eighteen
months ago made I gotta tell you, I would never
have known to even ask.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Well, it sounds like maybe we should be asking you
now if you've had to put in all the all
the hard work.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
But look, it's it's absolutely true.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
And look, even if you've done quite a bit of fish,
because we do have those big tidal variations, you don't know,
like you might someone say, oh that's a really good
spot to go.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
It's great to go.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Down to the Channel island, or it's great to fish
off of Lee Point.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
But what tides? Is a spring tide, neap tied, high tide,
low tide?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Is it a wet season, dry season? You know kind
of scenario. So pointing people in the right direction around
that and really arming them with the tools that they
need to crack the code some of these fishing spots.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Well, look, my personal phones already going off. Dan Hilliard,
who's on breakfast, has already said I need one of
those guides. Another friend of message, meet Crystal. Everyone wants
one of these guys. But David, let's have a bit
of a look through. Let's go through and have a
bit of a look at some of What would you say,
is you know your top go to spot for somebody
(03:18):
who's just starting out and really wants to have a guy.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Well, look, I think if people open the book to
the first page, what they'll find is as a map
of the Darwin Peninsula and they can see the places
they might have heard of, and they can pick usp
what they want to go to. What's really good about
it is that there's places if you just getting started
the jetty at Nightcliff, there's the Stokes, He'll wore fishing platforms,
(03:44):
Jump on the ferry, go over to the Jeddi at Mandora.
It's no longer the ferry terminal at the Jetti, so
you can just fish all day long off of the
jetty there. They're nice, safe, accessible places. But people looking
for a little bit more adventure and really want to
get there, you know, want to learn learn about a
place and learn how to fish at different stage of
the tide. East Point is an absolute playground for that.
(04:06):
You can fish any prevailing wind, you can fish on
the other side. You can target Barrow mounday this time
of year, you can fish for whiting in the shallows,
and you can target big pelagics off of the end
of the rocks as well.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah, it's incredible. But I also you know if you've
never done it, being there really early in the morning
there at East Point, watching that sunrise, and you know,
if you've got the kids there, you got whoever, your husband,
whoever's gone there yourself for a fish, it is incredible.
It Actually you watch that sunrise and you think, this
is why I live in the Northern Territory.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
It's beautiful, absolutely, and there's so many unique territory experience
as well. Yeah, Jervoys park right near the deck chair Cinema.
If you can coincide and eat an early evening high
tide with a film that you're interested to go and see,
Like you go there, have a fish at high tide,
catch a tra valley or tangle with a milkfish, and
(05:01):
then go and watch a film and have a feed.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Like where else can you do that?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
That's exactly right. Where's your favorite spot to go for
a land based fish?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Well, look, I do love East Point I've got a
soft spot and I know that.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
So this book has been written by a fan, and
you know, with.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Support of the Northern Territory Government through the Red Fishing
Grants program, We've had a lot of intel from Hellyfish
and from also from some of the fishing tackle shops.
But I'd say, Joeanne in my office might this might
not be her favorite spot. I've got a soft spot
for Lamary Beach and the reason for that is is
that's where I caught my first fish when I first
moved to Darwin. I went to Fishing in Outdoor World
(05:41):
and they handed me the original, like an older version
of this, like a smaller version that was done by Hellyfish.
So go down to Lamary Beach, cast out of Pilcher
at high tide and I caught a big golden tra
valley and I've made.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
The right move. I've made the right mood. So I've
got a soft spot for that.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
But in writing the book, I had to go out
and our team, myself and Joanne had to go out
and ground truth a lot of these spots.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
And to do had to go out.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
But but I did have the opportunity to go down
to Catherine talk to the team a rod and rife
and then go out to those spots on the Catherine River,
places like and I fell in love with galloping jacks.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I caught some barren mundy. I tagged them.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Hopefully they're going to grow up and swim down the
Daily River. But there's some amazing places. And the new
emerging hot spot has got to be the Dundee Fishing Platform.
It's you know, it's brand new, and it's such a
such a cool spot where people go out and there's
there's shelter there and they can fish on a pretty
good range of tides.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
And the other thing is it's accessible.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
So what do you catch out there?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Well, I mean it's Dundee. Anything you can catch, you
can catch barra mundy.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
You get quite a few queen fish and travali come
through there, and salmon so early in the morning they
get the they get the beach salmon. And then also
at high tide you can catch thread fin salmon.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
It's like, I'm really good eating fish.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yeah, fantastic, I tell you. I think it's I reckon,
it's great. I just think it's great for people to
have this as a bit of a bible where they
can go, you know what, what kind of fish they
may be able to catch there, and you know what
they might be able to sort of have a crack
with I e. You know, I luise their live bait,
whatever they might you know, whatever you might sort of need.
(07:29):
But you were speaking a moment ago as well about
the guys there at Fishing and Outdoor World. Geez, they
must get some interesting questions like I cannot tell you
how many times old George, Young George Ron. You know,
all the boys in there have given me assistance when
I've gone in with my son, and then they've given
some extra bits of advice, you know, as to what
you do and don't need.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
It's very helpful, well, you know, and that and that
is why we've just I've just come from there with
with Ron and with Minister Melee launching the guide this morning.
And there's a real buzz around the show and the
interest around it. But one of the things like that
this sort of came from was we all love the book.
As I said, I've I had a copy of an
(08:09):
earlier version of a Darwin Lambasted Fishing Guide and it
was actually when we did development planning for the future
of recreational fishing. One of the things that came up
was we need a new LAMD based fishing guide, and
then it went up through the Minister's Advisory Committee that
we need a lambased fishing and then they were looking
at we need a LAMB based fishing guy that hey,
(08:30):
that's going to be an exciting thing to do, and
we've absolutely relished it. So we've had As I said,
we had some support through the anti fishing grants, but
it did turn into a labor of love. I've lost
count of how many hours we spent working on it.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
But it's affordable.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
It's available in tackle shops, it's available the Darwin Visited
Information Center, and the idea is is to get it
into people's hands so they can just get connected with
the great fishing opportunities that we have. Darwin, Catherine Dundee,
palmerstan Lakes, wherever you might be.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
That's exactly right. It's only seven dollars ninety five. But look,
I've got five copies to give away this morning. David,
what do you reckon I what do you think people
should tell me in order to get their hands on them?
Crystal saying, maybe the most memorable fishing experience.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Oh look, why not?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
I mean people might want to tell us about the
first fish that they caught, or they might want to
tell us about the trip where everything went wrong and
it stuck in the mind for the wrong reasons, and
just why they need the help.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
That's you know, in the guide.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
So yeah, i'd it would be great to hear from
people about their most memorable fishing experience.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Agree, I think whatever the.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Reason, I agree, I reckon. They can give us a
call or send us a message. Give us a call
if you'd like eight nine four one one oh four nine.
Let well let us know why you would like to
get your hands on this Lamb Bay's Fishing Guide for
Darwin and beyond. But also maybe your most memorable experience,
your most tragic experience. It could be the one that
really got away, you know, a really great fish that
(09:57):
it didn't quite hang on to. That's the worst.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
And those fish not only grow in memory, but they
grow in and look, we've all we've all got them.
But you know, that's that's part of wanting to come back,
that's part of wanting to crack the code and make
sure that next time.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
You know you're prepared and you can you can you.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Can land that have that photo and you know, if
you're like me, you have it on the barbecue.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Yeah, absolutely absolutely, David, lovely to speak to you this morning.
I can see those phone lines have lit up, so
we'll go across to the phones. Thank you very much
for coming in and having a chat to us about this,
and I reckon it's wonderful what our fan's done. And
it sounds like, you know, lots of hard work and
research going into to make sure that you've found the
best places to go land based fishing.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
We we have.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
We have searched far and wide, and we've actually lost
a few friends over some of the secrets, so you
know that's the problem.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Yeah, that's the that's the challenge. It's been.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
It's been enjoyable work, but I've got to work on
some of my relationships.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
You do, You're gonna have to do that.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
David. Great to have you on the show.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Thank you as always.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Thank you
In some very exciting news for those who love a
spot of fishing. A fan have launched a land based
fishing guide with some of the top spots to head out.
If you don't have a boat, oh you know, maybe
you do, but you want to do some lamb based
fishing on the weekend. Now joining us in the studio
to tell us more is the CEO of Avant, David Girovolo.
(00:21):
Good morning David.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Good morning Katie, and good morning everyone.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Mate. I think this is fantastic And I tell you
what if I had this eighteen months ago when my
son started fishing, you want to help me out enormously.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Oh gosh.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I think the only problem with the book is that
we haven't brought it out quick enough.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
That's what That's what we're hearing Kate exactly.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Now again I will say I Reckon, it's a great guide.
Talk us through why you decided to put this out.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
So, as you've said today, we've launched the lamb based
Fishing Guide for Darwin and beyond. And look, the reason
for it is is that we know fishing in the
top end fishing in and around Darwin. It's one of
the best things about our lifestyle, and it's one of
the things that our New Territorians, people who want to
start fishing, people who've even been fishing but sort of
(01:09):
have never fished a particular spot before. Of course tourists
want to get out and catch a fish, but we've got.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Big tides, big seasonal variations.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah, always the chance well they need to be crock wise,
let's say out. And so the idea with this guide
is giving you all that intel about the spots in
and around Darwin, including down Catherine and Dundee, about what
tides to fish, what time of year to fish, how
to target different species. But it's designed to be accessible,
digestible and fits in the palm of your hand.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
It is fantastic, you know, and maybe it's maybe for
me it hits home so much because we've been going
through all of this, you know, for the last sort
of eighteen months, and we're at the point now where
my son knows where he likes to fish, he knows
what he's fishing for, all that kind of thing. But
for young ones or people that are older, it can
be quite daunting when you're first starting out going well,
(01:58):
where do I go If I'm going to East Point
obviously I'm keeping an eye on the tides, But what
do I need to fish there? Am I going lures?
Am I going you know bait? What am I fresh bait?
What am I using? All these questions David that eighteen
months ago made I gotta tell you, I would never
have known to even ask.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Well, it sounds like maybe we should be asking you
now if you've had to put in all the all
the hard work.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
But look, it's it's absolutely true.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
And look, even if you've done quite a bit of fish,
because we do have those big tidal variations, you don't know,
like you might someone say, oh that's a really good
spot to go.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
It's great to go.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Down to the Channel island, or it's great to fish
off of Lee Point.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
But what tides? Is a spring tide, neap tied, high tide,
low tide?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Is it a wet season, dry season? You know kind
of scenario. So pointing people in the right direction around
that and really arming them with the tools that they
need to crack the code some of these fishing spots.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Well, look, my personal phones already going off. Dan Hilliard,
who's on breakfast, has already said I need one of
those guides. Another friend of message, meet Crystal. Everyone wants
one of these guys. But David, let's have a bit
of a look through. Let's go through and have a
bit of a look at some of What would you say,
is you know your top go to spot for somebody
(03:18):
who's just starting out and really wants to have a guy.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Well, look, I think if people open the book to
the first page, what they'll find is as a map
of the Darwin Peninsula and they can see the places
they might have heard of, and they can pick usp
what they want to go to. What's really good about
it is that there's places if you just getting started
the jetty at Nightcliff, there's the Stokes, He'll wore fishing platforms,
(03:44):
Jump on the ferry, go over to the Jeddi at Mandora.
It's no longer the ferry terminal at the Jetti, so
you can just fish all day long off of the
jetty there. They're nice, safe, accessible places. But people looking
for a little bit more adventure and really want to
get there, you know, want to learn learn about a
place and learn how to fish at different stage of
the tide. East Point is an absolute playground for that.
(04:06):
You can fish any prevailing wind, you can fish on
the other side. You can target Barrow mounday this time
of year, you can fish for whiting in the shallows,
and you can target big pelagics off of the end
of the rocks as well.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah, it's incredible. But I also you know if you've
never done it, being there really early in the morning
there at East Point, watching that sunrise, and you know,
if you've got the kids there, you got whoever, your husband,
whoever's gone there yourself for a fish, it is incredible.
It Actually you watch that sunrise and you think, this
is why I live in the Northern Territory.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
It's beautiful, absolutely, and there's so many unique territory experience
as well. Yeah, Jervoys park right near the deck chair Cinema.
If you can coincide and eat an early evening high
tide with a film that you're interested to go and see,
Like you go there, have a fish at high tide,
catch a tra valley or tangle with a milkfish, and
(05:01):
then go and watch a film and have a feed.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Like where else can you do that?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
That's exactly right. Where's your favorite spot to go for
a land based fish?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Well, look, I do love East Point I've got a
soft spot and I know that.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
So this book has been written by a fan, and
you know, with.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Support of the Northern Territory Government through the Red Fishing
Grants program, We've had a lot of intel from Hellyfish
and from also from some of the fishing tackle shops.
But I'd say, Joeanne in my office might this might
not be her favorite spot. I've got a soft spot
for Lamary Beach and the reason for that is is
that's where I caught my first fish when I first
moved to Darwin. I went to Fishing in Outdoor World
(05:41):
and they handed me the original, like an older version
of this, like a smaller version that was done by Hellyfish.
So go down to Lamary Beach, cast out of Pilcher
at high tide and I caught a big golden tra
valley and I've made.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
The right move. I've made the right mood. So I've
got a soft spot for that.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
But in writing the book, I had to go out
and our team, myself and Joanne had to go out
and ground truth a lot of these spots.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
And to do had to go out.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
But but I did have the opportunity to go down
to Catherine talk to the team a rod and rife
and then go out to those spots on the Catherine River,
places like and I fell in love with galloping jacks.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I caught some barren mundy. I tagged them.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Hopefully they're going to grow up and swim down the
Daily River. But there's some amazing places. And the new
emerging hot spot has got to be the Dundee Fishing Platform.
It's you know, it's brand new, and it's such a
such a cool spot where people go out and there's
there's shelter there and they can fish on a pretty
good range of tides.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
And the other thing is it's accessible.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
So what do you catch out there?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Well, I mean it's Dundee. Anything you can catch, you
can catch barra mundy.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
You get quite a few queen fish and travali come
through there, and salmon so early in the morning they
get the they get the beach salmon. And then also
at high tide you can catch thread fin salmon.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
It's like, I'm really good eating fish.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yeah, fantastic, I tell you. I think it's I reckon,
it's great. I just think it's great for people to
have this as a bit of a bible where they
can go, you know what, what kind of fish they
may be able to catch there, and you know what
they might be able to sort of have a crack
with I e. You know, I luise their live bait,
whatever they might you know, whatever you might sort of need.
(07:29):
But you were speaking a moment ago as well about
the guys there at Fishing and Outdoor World. Geez, they
must get some interesting questions like I cannot tell you
how many times old George, Young George Ron. You know,
all the boys in there have given me assistance when
I've gone in with my son, and then they've given
some extra bits of advice, you know, as to what
you do and don't need.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
It's very helpful, well, you know, and that and that
is why we've just I've just come from there with
with Ron and with Minister Melee launching the guide this morning.
And there's a real buzz around the show and the
interest around it. But one of the things like that
this sort of came from was we all love the book.
As I said, I've I had a copy of an
(08:09):
earlier version of a Darwin Lambasted Fishing Guide and it
was actually when we did development planning for the future
of recreational fishing. One of the things that came up
was we need a new LAMD based fishing guide, and
then it went up through the Minister's Advisory Committee that
we need a lambased fishing and then they were looking
at we need a LAMB based fishing guy that hey,
(08:30):
that's going to be an exciting thing to do, and
we've absolutely relished it. So we've had As I said,
we had some support through the anti fishing grants, but
it did turn into a labor of love. I've lost
count of how many hours we spent working on it.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
But it's affordable.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
It's available in tackle shops, it's available the Darwin Visited
Information Center, and the idea is is to get it
into people's hands so they can just get connected with
the great fishing opportunities that we have. Darwin, Catherine Dundee,
palmerstan Lakes, wherever you might be.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
That's exactly right. It's only seven dollars ninety five. But look,
I've got five copies to give away this morning. David,
what do you reckon I what do you think people
should tell me in order to get their hands on them?
Crystal saying, maybe the most memorable fishing experience.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Oh look, why not?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
I mean people might want to tell us about the
first fish that they caught, or they might want to
tell us about the trip where everything went wrong and
it stuck in the mind for the wrong reasons, and
just why they need the help.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
That's you know, in the guide.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
So yeah, i'd it would be great to hear from
people about their most memorable fishing experience.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Agree, I think whatever the.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Reason, I agree, I reckon. They can give us a
call or send us a message. Give us a call
if you'd like eight nine four one one oh four nine.
Let well let us know why you would like to
get your hands on this Lamb Bay's Fishing Guide for
Darwin and beyond. But also maybe your most memorable experience,
your most tragic experience. It could be the one that
really got away, you know, a really great fish that
(09:57):
it didn't quite hang on to. That's the worst.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
And those fish not only grow in memory, but they
grow in and look, we've all we've all got them.
But you know, that's that's part of wanting to come back,
that's part of wanting to crack the code and make
sure that next time.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
You know you're prepared and you can you can you.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Can land that have that photo and you know, if
you're like me, you have it on the barbecue.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Yeah, absolutely absolutely, David, lovely to speak to you this morning.
I can see those phone lines have lit up, so
we'll go across to the phones. Thank you very much
for coming in and having a chat to us about this,
and I reckon it's wonderful what our fan's done. And
it sounds like, you know, lots of hard work and
research going into to make sure that you've found the
best places to go land based fishing.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
We we have.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
We have searched far and wide, and we've actually lost
a few friends over some of the secrets, so you
know that's the problem.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Yeah, that's the that's the challenge. It's been.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
It's been enjoyable work, but I've got to work on
some of my relationships.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
You do, You're gonna have to do that.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
David. Great to have you on the show.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Thank you as always.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Thank you
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Football’s funniest family duo — Jason Kelce of the Philadelphia Eagles and Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs — team up to provide next-level access to life in the league as it unfolds. The two brothers and Super Bowl champions drop weekly insights about the weekly slate of games and share their INSIDE perspectives on trending NFL news and sports headlines. They also endlessly rag on each other as brothers do, chat the latest in pop culture and welcome some very popular and well-known friends to chat with them. Check out new episodes every Wednesday. Follow New Heights on the Wondery App, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen to new episodes early and ad-free, and get exclusive content on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. And join our new membership for a unique fan experience by going to the New Heights YouTube channel now!
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