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Speaker 1: Well, as you've heard, there is an exciting new twist

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Speaker 1: has been announced for February in the million Dollar Fish competition,

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Speaker 1: and it proves that size does matter. The angler who

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Speaker 1: lands the biggest tagged barre during the month is set

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Speaker 1: to win extra cash on top of their ten thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: Now joining me on the line to tell us a

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Speaker 1: little bit more nt Major Events Companies Interim CEO Trevor Cox.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Trevor.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Katie, how are you?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, really good. Wonderful to have you on the show

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Speaker 1: and wonderful to hear about this. Well, bit of a

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Speaker 1: change for the month of feb tell us more about

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Speaker 1: what people stand to win if they reel in the

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Speaker 1: biggest fish.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, Katie, we thought February. We're all back in

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Speaker 2: work mode, kids are back at school. What a great

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Speaker 2: time to launch a bit of a cheeky campaign size

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Speaker 2: matters for the million Dollar Fish. We know that fishows

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Speaker 2: will resonate and get behind this because fishows always talk

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Speaker 2: about the size of the fish they catch. That's the

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Speaker 2: best story, you know. On the way home or the

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Speaker 2: Crowbery tavern after everyone's been out fishing, they're all talking

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Speaker 2: about the size of the fish. So we think this

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Speaker 2: campaign will be a big hit. Every red tag ten

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Speaker 2: thousand dollar barrow that's caught through the month of February

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Speaker 2: will jump on the leaderboard, so you'll receive your ten

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars for catching the red tag fish. And then

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Speaker 2: on the first of March, whoever's got the biggest barrow

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Speaker 2: for the month, we'll get a forty thousand dollar bonus

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Speaker 2: forty grand, so it's a fifty grand winner for the

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Speaker 2: month of February coming up.

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Speaker 1: That is awesome. What better you know, what better incentive

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Speaker 1: really to get out on the water and go on fish.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely and perfectly time for people down south as well.

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Speaker 2: You know, now's the time to get up here fishing.

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Speaker 2: It will start to go off again and we hope

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Speaker 2: to really drive a lot of visitation coming into the

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Speaker 2: February March period the Mean Doll Fish campaign.

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Speaker 1: Is it traditionally like February March in terms of having

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Speaker 1: people travel to the end to fish? Is it traditionally

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Speaker 1: a quiet sort of time travel or what do we

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Speaker 1: usually see around those months.

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Speaker 2: I think overall towns are starting to build, you know,

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Speaker 2: visitors are starting to work out where they're going to go.

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Speaker 2: On their next holiday. So this is a great incentive

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Speaker 2: to get those real keen fishermen from down south up

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Speaker 2: here to join our anglers, to join our fishing tour

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Speaker 2: guides who are out there doing a wonderful job and

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Speaker 2: showing people rivers and water systems right across the territory

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Speaker 2: and the top end. So yeah, we think this one's

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Speaker 2: a winner. We know it ll resonate with a fishing crowd,

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Speaker 2: so we're really happy to bring something new. And thanks

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Speaker 2: to our sponsors sports Bet, who are right behind this

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Speaker 2: initiative as well, so we know we'll get a lot

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Speaker 2: of coverage down south.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and you know, if we can get more

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Speaker 1: people here and get them spending some money in the

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Speaker 1: Northern Territory, that's only a good thing. How big generally

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Speaker 1: are some of the fish, some of the barrow that

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Speaker 1: do get caught in the million dollar Fish comp.

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Speaker 2: All sizes. It's just like the fish are caught all

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Speaker 2: across the top end. There's all sizes. But we did

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Speaker 2: a little bit of research. The biggest ever red tag

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Speaker 2: barrow that's been caught was one hundred and five centimeters.

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Speaker 2: So lucky Kai Hale. Back in season eight, he joined

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Speaker 2: the Meta Club and got a ten grand bonus.

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Speaker 1: Awesome.

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Speaker 2: How good is that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that is so good. I can't believe that if

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Speaker 1: you get the biggest fish this month, you're going to

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Speaker 1: get an extra forty thousand dollars. That is phenomenal. I mean,

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Speaker 1: and look, it's wonderful the way that you see people

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Speaker 1: get out on the water and taking part in the

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Speaker 1: million dollar fish competition. How many red tags have we

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Speaker 1: got left?

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Speaker 2: Well, so far we've had sixteen barrow Court, so that

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Speaker 2: leaves us with eighty three barrew with ten thousand red

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Speaker 2: tags out there. And don't forget, it's season ten, so

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Speaker 2: we've got ten million dollar red tags still swimming around

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Speaker 2: and topping waterways.

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Speaker 1: And we had hips going off, didn't we like? They

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Speaker 1: seemed like we had a real kind of period there

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Speaker 1: where he was there. They were going off all the time.

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Speaker 2: October was crazy. It was a great, great time for fishing,

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Speaker 2: and there was a lot of excited fish shows. And

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Speaker 2: at the end of the day, you know, that's just

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Speaker 2: so rewarding to see these fishows come in with the

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Speaker 2: take am the prize.

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Speaker 1: Trevor, tell me, what are some of the key waterways

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Speaker 1: that you know that the tags burrow in and are

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Speaker 1: there any particular you know, just for anybody listening this

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Speaker 1: morning that maybe hasn't hasn't sort of been around for

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Speaker 1: as long or aren't suure where some of the more

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Speaker 1: fruitful spots have been over the last few seasons.

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Speaker 2: Okadie, that's a tricky one. You're asking me to give

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Speaker 2: away trade secret.

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Speaker 1: I'm just looking.

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Speaker 2: I was going to tell you that Manton Dam was

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Speaker 2: a hot spot, but no, I'm not going to say anymore.

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Speaker 1: Just looking for some tips. You know, my son's taking

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Speaker 1: up fishing and seeing if I might be able to

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Speaker 1: earn myself a bit of cash on the site. There's

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Speaker 1: lots of lots of areas where you can fish and

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Speaker 1: where you can have a crack at catching the million

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Speaker 1: dollar barrow, isn't there?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. Look already this season we've seen fish

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Speaker 2: caught out at Bilula, you know, in the daily here

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Speaker 2: in Darwen Harbor, so right across the territory. The important

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Speaker 2: thing is that you get out there, drop a line in,

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Speaker 2: make sure you register before you go, and you're a

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Speaker 2: chance to be a prize winner. Well.

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Speaker 1: Trevor Cox, the interim CEO at NT major events company.

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Speaker 1: Always good to catch up with you mate, Thanks so

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Speaker 1: much for your time this morning.

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Speaker 2: Nice to chatty.

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Speaker 1: Thank you,