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Speaker 1: All eyes have been on the floods and the weather events,

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Speaker 1: news for our premiere fishing competitions. Now joining me in

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Speaker 1: the studio is Rebecca Vale, who is indeed one of

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Speaker 1: who is the president. Good morning to you both. Good

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Speaker 1: lovely to have you both on the show. Now, I

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Speaker 1: know that you're also as I understand it, you're also

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Speaker 1: from the Palmeston and Game Fishing Club. Is that correct?

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Speaker 1: So tell me. I mean, like all eyes are on

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Speaker 1: the weather at the moment, right we're all watching this

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Speaker 1: cyclone and thinking, please Nerell go away. But it's like

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Speaker 1: it's going to have a big impact in a lot

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Speaker 1: of different ways that you know, not just the cleanup

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Speaker 1: and not just the impact for those people that live

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Speaker 1: out at the But you guys got some phenomenal competitions

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Speaker 1: that happened there when it comes to fishing, right, yes.

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Speaker 2: We have probably it's probably the best Barrow Moundey fishing

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Speaker 2: competition in Australia. Well, I'm happy to say that. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: happy to defend that. But yeah, and obviously we've seen

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Speaker 2: we've got a couple of good wet season and this

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Speaker 1: I was speaking to somebody about this on the weekend

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Speaker 1: you've just explained it there very well. It's going to

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Speaker 1: spell good fishing when things finally calm down a little bit, right.

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Speaker 2: Yes, very much so. And next year it'll be better again.

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Speaker 1: So like at this point in time, you know, when

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Speaker 2: We're watching the weather at the moment. We have got

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Speaker 1: So yeah, we've spoken to some of those businesses throughout

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so we've pretty much been everything was good to go.

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Speaker 1: And it's going to need to be an absolute cracker

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Speaker 2: We will because all the major river systems are full. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And I mean for the wider community. You know, fishing

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Speaker 2: Well, it is a big part of our social fabric.

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Speaker 2: Hey, yeah, for sure. And the other is rare like

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And just touching base on what Daryl said, you know,

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Speaker 3: you know our anglers spend minimum of twenty thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: Well, look, it's been great to speak to you both

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and we aren't told them to pack jumpers.

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Speaker 3: Well, so all laugh yees live in an edition Baronationals

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Speaker 1: to you both this morning, Beck and Darryl. Lovely to

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Speaker 1: have you in the studio. Thanks so much for joining

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Speaker 1: us on the show. Thank you for having us, Thank

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