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Katie Woolf spoke with Ryan one of the Million Dollar Fish winners · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Joining me on the line right now is Ryan? And Ryan? Well,
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  Speaker 1: you caught one of those double tagged barra, didn't you?
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  Speaker 2: I certainly did.
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  Speaker 1: Made I understand you're here at the moment visiting.
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  Speaker 3: Your lovely family. Where were you out fishing? And what happened?
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  Speaker 2: We were out Mary River for the weekend, having a
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  Speaker 2: fish in. Yeah, well lucky enough to catch one of
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  Speaker 2: the tag double tag barra, which is worth sixteen thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 3: Goodness, mate, how does the double tagged one work? Do
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  Speaker 3: you get the whole fifteen thousand or do one of
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  Speaker 3: your mates.
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  Speaker 1: Get a share?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: That's right, you get ten thousand dollars and then you
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  Speaker 2: get the choice to give it to a mate of
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  Speaker 2: your choice.
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  Speaker 1: Here, who are you giving me? Who are you giving
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  Speaker 1: some of that money to? Who are you on the
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  Speaker 1: boat with?
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  Speaker 3: My mate?
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  Speaker 2: Warren was I? Yeah, he got it, and I'll give
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  Speaker 2: it to him because he added the fish for me.
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  Speaker 2: So that was a bit of a team effort.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds like it now.
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  Speaker 3: Some people out there listening may know your family quite
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  Speaker 3: quite a well known couple of territori Ands who obviously
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  Speaker 3: have some pretty special lures as well.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us about.
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  Speaker 2: Them, Yes, Colin and Karen from Ready the Parents, and
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  Speaker 2: we're actually using a Ready Ready's lower Ready.
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  Speaker 1: Is that the secret? Mate? Is that what people need?
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  Speaker 1: Do you reckon?
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  Speaker 2: I think they better go on board and go and
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  Speaker 2: bite you.
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  Speaker 1: So tell us, tell us how it all happened.
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  Speaker 3: You're obviously on the boat, you're out there fishing, having
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  Speaker 3: it all unfold.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're going to pull up for our last cast.
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  Speaker 2: We're just about to go into tea and seen some
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  Speaker 2: seen some fish on the sounder and we had a
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  Speaker 2: couple of great northerns left, so we thought, I thought
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  Speaker 2: we'd share them and have a bit of a cast
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  Speaker 2: and yeah, that second cast bang, Yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 3: What was your reaction when you pulled it out of
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  Speaker 3: the water and and and saw that it had two
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  Speaker 3: tags on there?
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  Speaker 2: It was it was chaos.
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  Speaker 3: What was everyone doing? Just trying to make sure that
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  Speaker 3: you didn't accidentally let it go?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a bit of that, and we were just
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  Speaker 2: we really wanted to get it back in the water
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  Speaker 2: as well. Because it was such a big pictures a
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  Speaker 2: ninety eight centimeters. We didn't really know what to do
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  Speaker 2: with the competition, so we sort of found out what
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  Speaker 2: to do and then we released him, grabbed the tags
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  Speaker 2: out of him and released him. So and he survived.
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  Speaker 1: Its good Oh good stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Well mate, obviously you are here visiting your wonderful family
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  Speaker 3: and you hear from Mackay.
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  Speaker 1: Is that right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right? Yep, mate.
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  Speaker 3: What are you going to be saying to people when
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  Speaker 3: you get back to Mackay.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, it really is just a blur at the moment.
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe it, to be honest, It's just amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Is this like the best holiday you've ever had?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Without doubt? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Look, I just think that what this competition does
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  Speaker 3: for tourism is truly amazing. And you know, to actually
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  Speaker 3: hear from someone this morning who who is here from
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  Speaker 3: Queensland and you're going to go home you'll be telling
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  Speaker 3: people about this.
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  Speaker 1: It's such a wonderful story and you know so great.
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  Speaker 3: That that you obviously caught that that Barro and you're
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  Speaker 3: you know, you hear visiting your family and the territory.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I did say, Yeah, it's fantastic thing for tourism.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, something I'll ever forget. It's once in the
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  Speaker 2: loftime thing, isn't it.
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  Speaker 1: It really is? Well, Ryan, really lovely to talk to
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  Speaker 1: you this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having a quick chat with us,
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  Speaker 3: and good on you.
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  Speaker 1: What a lucky bloke you are.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, thank you very much, appreciate your time.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Ryan, see you mate, enjoy the rest of your
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  Speaker 1: time in the territory.
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  Speaker 2: Weill do, thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Oh how nice is that? Such a wonderful, wonderful.
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  Speaker 3: Story to hear there from Ryan And you know he's
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  Speaker 3: here visiting his lovely parents as well as many people
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  Speaker 3: will know know them and obviously no Redi's lures. But
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  Speaker 3: so nice to hear from Ryan he's here visiting his parents.
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  Speaker 3: Wonderful for territory tourism, I reckon, And let's hope that
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  Speaker 3: we get a few more Queenslanders across to the territory
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  Speaker 3: spending some money in our shops and obviously taking advantage
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  Speaker 3: of our wonderful hospitality and really putting us on the
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  Speaker 3: map when it comes to fishing. I know that we
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  Speaker 3: are anyway, But when you have something like this happen,
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  Speaker 3: then people go back home and tell everybody about it.
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  Speaker 1: It is a wonderful, wonderful thing.