Tall Tails Fishing Podcast

Jimmy Toneycliffe (@cptnhook__) is a Kiwi who landed in WA in 2010 knowing nothing about catching fish on the west coast.

After deciding that Spanish Mackerel was the fish he wanted to target, Jimmy bought a 6m Aluminium Genesis Craft and started searching. It took him 4 years to get his first Mackie. Now, he's getting them consistently every time he heads out fishing. This ones full of info that will get you closer to landing the elusive Metro Spanish Mackerel!

In this episode we talk to Jimmy about:

• Growing up fishing for Chinook salmon in NZ
• Moving to Perth and trying to catch a Spanish Mackerel
• Buying his first boat because it was blue
• The trolling rules that finally made the rods bend
•  Planers - the Florida technique that tripled his catch rate
• Succesfully trolling even when theres floating seaweed
• Sea Witches, Islander lures and the Witch Doctor
• Why he catches more Mackies in winter
• A 24.5kg metro Wahoo, a 25kg Kingfish and a Marlin at the FADS

If the weed has ever sent you home from the three mile, listen to the planer section twice.

Special thanks goes out to the crew at Jazz Charters for supporting this weeks listener questions. Jazz are the number 1 Fishing & boat party charter operator in Perth

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Chapters:

02:07 Salmon fishing in NZ

10:52 Moving to Perth & the first boat

14:04 Four years without a Mackie

17:32 Trolling down current on a 45 degree angle

19:29 Wind, current, sun & driving the boat to cover ground

25:49 The theory of change and how it gets the bite

28:30 The planer - A deadly trolling technique

35:39 Rigging garfish

37:17 Reaper rigs

39:42 Winter Mackies & water temp

41:47 Birds are the cheat code

43:11 Islander lures, Sea Witches & the spread

52:30  Trolling speed for Wahoo 

59:00 Rothy's tinnie update

1:02:25 Wood duck moment

1:05:30 Wall of Fame

1:11:08 Listener questions & the Jazz Charters giveaway

1:25:13 Quickfire

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Honouring the past & acknowledging the future of Australian Fishing Culture.

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Gideon "Gido" Mettam is the most requested guest we've ever had. Every week the DMs roll in asking us to get him on, and we've finally intercepted him on his way up north!

Gido is a chippy turned rock climbing fisherman, who fishes the rock ledges of Western Australia's rugged south coast. Using his rock climbing skills, Gido abseils into spots most blokes wouldn't look at twice. He's bolted a platform onto a cliff face to fish it properly, and he pulls Dhufish, Blue Groper and Kingfish out of water you can only reach on a rope.

Gido's Fishing Adventures now gets watched all over the world with 462,000 subscribers following along ammassing 113 million views on Gido's YouTube channel.

A huge shoutout to WA Fishing tackle brand Oceans Legacy for supporting this episodes Listener Question segment.
www.oceanslegacy.com

If you fish land based anywhere in the world, this one's a belter.

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Honouring the past & acknowledging the future of Australian Fishing Culture.

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Tony Thwin is a well known face around the Perth fishing community. He has caught Marlin, Mulloway and everything between, but even after catching plenty of trophy fish, squid is still his true obsession.

In this episode the former WA tackle rep gives us a squid masterclass and breaks down jig sizing, sink rates, casting distance and a full colour system for every time of day. He shares his eight jig starter kit, the spots most people drive straight past, and a kids squidding hack that just works.

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TALL TAILS!

Honouring the past & acknowledging the future of Australian Fishing Culture.

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 INTRO TUNE
🥩 Red Bellied Black Snake - The Beefs 🥩
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For all enquiries about Tall Tails Fishing Podcast, please contact [email protected]

Rothy and Lecca sit down with Paul Willis and Tim Farnell from Red Mullet Distributors, the WA team behind some of the biggest brands in Australian fishing including Daiwa, Vexed and Assassin to name a few.

Between them, Paul and Tim have forgot more about landbased fishing than most of us will ever know. They've written articles for western angler, run tackle talks & fished the WA coast from top to bottom.

This episode covers:

• Mulloway & Pink Snapper from the beach & rockwalls 
• Landbased fishing rigs, conditions, and how to find a fishy spot
• Targeting big Tailor on lures along Perth's metro beaches and reefs

Plus, one lucky listener who submitted a question walks away with a Infeet light tackle lure pack thanks to Daiwa Australia

If you fish from the beach or the rocks, this one's a belter.

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Honouring the past & acknowledging the future of Australian Fishing Culture.

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 INTRO TUNE
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For all enquiries about Tall Tails Fishing Podcast, please contact [email protected]

Scott Jessamine, better known as Saltfix on YouTube, joins Rothy & Lecca for a  chat about all things fishing inshore and more...

In this episode:

• Scott's Early days of Fishing in Perth
• How tackle shops lost their soul over the decades
• Reading unfamiliar water and putting in the work
• Why Scott prefers inshore over offshore fishing
• Cracking Pink Snapper in the shallows and Kingfish on 3 Mile Reef
• Barra at Lake Kununurra
• A Great White encounter at Little Island with Matt Gates
• Blowfish as bait?!

Plus — win a Daiwa Saltiga Jig pack. Drop your best listener question on Instagram @TallTailsPodcast. Thanks to Daiwa Australia.

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Honouring the past & acknowledging the future of Australian Fishing Culture.

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 INTRO TUNE
🥩 Red Bellied Black Snake - The Beefs 🥩
Courtesy of Sam Smith
Click here to listen to The Beefs on Spotify

For all enquiries about Tall Tails Fishing Podcast, please contact [email protected]

In this episode we're joined by Ben Patrick — owner of Halco Tackle. 

Halco is the most iconic fishing lure brand to ever come out of Western Australia. If you've ever tied on a Laser Pro, a Twisty, or a Rooster Popper, you've got Ben, his family & Hal cooper to thank for it.

Ben is the second generation owner of Halco Tackle, a brand founded in 1950 by Hal Cooper in his garage in Mosman Park. Today, Halco sells to over 80 countries, designs everything in-house out of their Fremantl HQ and manufactures out of their own factory in Batam, Indonesia. Halco lures are distrubted & fished hard all over the world.

In this episode with Ben Patrick we discuss…

• The origin story of Halco — from Hal Cooper's garage in Mosman Park to a globally recognised lure brand
• How Ben's dad Neil purchased the company in 1980 and the lures that defined that era
• Ben buying the business with his family in 2002 and taking it global
• The challenges of cracking the US market and what makes American anglers different
• Ben's earliest fishing memories — the Abrolhos Islands, 30lb mackerel in Grade 5, and a 48-year-old boat called Safari Two
• The real story behind the Rooster Popper — how it came to be, why it took a year to get right, and why it's now the best-selling mass-produced popper in the world
• Lure design philosophy — what most anglers misunderstand about buoyancy, weight, and balance
• Why clean water is the single most important factor for chasing metro Spanish mackerel on lures
• Ben's Spanish mackerel trolling spread and the stick bait tip Craig White swears by
• The Abrolhos Islands — how the fishery has changed, why the baldies are better than ever, and the Batavia shipwreck story
• The Iconic Twisty — how it's still made the same way Hal Cooper invented it in 1950, and why Ben nearly dropped it from the range
• Live scoping and how sounder technology is changing lure design
• Noodling for catfish in Texas 
• Ben's most memorable fish — a 180lb tarpon in Panama on a Laser Pro 160
• Why the red and white Laser Pro catches more fish 
• A limited edition Halco Twisty idea that the boys pitched to ben on air
• Ben's wood duck moment — sniping a drone on national television with a Rooster Popper

Plus we give away an epic Daiwa Saltiga Topwater lure pack for the best listener question submitted through our Instagram @TallTailsPodcast thanks to Daiwa Australia

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TALL TAILS!

Honouring the past & acknowledging the future of Australian Fishing Culture.

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 INTRO TUNE
🥩 Red Bellied Black Snake - The Beefs 🥩
Courtesy of Sam Smith
Click here to listen to The Beefs on Spotify

For all enquiries about Tall Tails Fishing Podcast, please contact [email protected]

Whitey is back!
 
 In this episode, we’re joined by the legends from Evolution Charters in Exmouth, Craig & Jack White, fresh off the Fremantle Sailing Club’s Premier Marlin Fishing Competition, The 2026 Sovereign Blue Marlin Classic

In this episode we recap the an epic weeknd over at Rottnest Island off Perth and break down the good times and the mayhem that occurred in between

We also throw a bunch of listener questions to Whitey thanks to the legends at Daiwa Australia.

Enjoy! 

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TALL TAILS!

Honouring the past & acknowledging the future of Australian Fishing Culture.

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 INTRO TUNE
🥩 Red Bellied Black Snake - The Beefs 🥩
Courtesy of Sam Smith
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For all enquiries about Tall Tails Fishing Podcast, please contact [email protected]

You asked for a Spearo. We delivered.

This week  we sit down with Perth spearfishing weapon and Australian Underwater Federation record keeper, Vin Rushworth.

Vin is a marine biologist by trade who has tagged Great White Sharks in Western Australia and whales in Antarctica. That mindset shows in the way he hunts.

Originally from Brisbane, Vin cut his teeth on the east coast before moving west 15 years ago. Since then he has speared up and down the WA coastline and built a serious list of stories with some legends of the sport.

In this episode we cover...

• Growing up in Brisbane and getting into spearfishing

• East coast vs West coast spearing

• Working in fisheries research

• Tagging Great Whites and whales

• Shark encounters while diving

• Crossing paths with an Australian Navy submarine while chasing marlin off Perth

• Yellowfin tuna & wahoo missions

• His role as record keeper for the Australian Underwater Federation

• The upcoming InterPacific Spearfishing Championships in Busselton

• Chasing Northern Pearl Perch in WA

• Spearing marlin off the teaser out wide

• A gnarly near drowning diving for crays

• Future goals in the spearfishing world

Plus we fire through a stack of listener questions & give away a Squid Jig pack thanks to Daiwa Australia.

If you have been asking for more spearfishing content, this one is for you.

TALL TAILS!

Honouring the past & acknowledging the future of Australian Fishing Culture.

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 INTRO TUNE
🥩 Red Bellied Black Snake - The Beefs 🥩
Courtesy of Sam Smith
Click here to listen to The Beefs on Spotify

For all enquiries about Tall Tails Fishing Podcast, please contact [email protected]

In this episode we’re joined by one of the best Barramundi fisho’s that you’ve probably never heard of -  Jono Ellis.
 
 Jono is an absolute sniper when I comes to catching BIG Barra using live-scope and has pulled some massive Barramundi upwards of  120cm from his home waters around Derby & Broome in WA’s North.

Regular listeners of the Rodcast will know that Lecca loves his Barra so he didn’t hold back on questions for Jono…
 
In this episode with Jono Ellis we discuss…

• Jono's fishing upbring living in Derby, WA
• Progressing from bait to lures and eventually introducing Live scope
• Shark & Crocodile encounters in the Kimberly river systems
• Tips for avoiding croc attacks and some close calls
• Jono's boat setup
• Tips for setting up livescope for your best chance at scoping a Barramundi
• Jono's preffered Barramundi lures
• Wood duck moments
• Throwing rocks at lazy fish to tempt them into biting a lure
• Lecca's recent Mully session on the Swan River with Tim Farnell

Plus we give away an epic line & leader pack from Daiwa  for the best listener question submitted through our Instagram @TallTailsPodcast

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Honouring the past & acknowledging the future of Australian Fishing Culture.

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 INTRO TUNE
🥩 Red Bellied Black Snake - The Beefs 🥩
Courtesy of Sam Smith
Click here to listen to The Beefs on Spotify

For all enquiries about Tall Tails Fishing Podcast, please contact [email protected]

In this episode we are joined by the man behind Tackle World Exmouth, Matt Gates, along with his two sons, Kalvin and Dean.

When we asked past guests who we had to get on the show, one name kept coming up. Gatesy.

If a species can be targeted in the Exmouth region, he has spent time figuring it out.

Matt moved from Perth to Exmouth to run the store under mentor Hal Harvey before eventually buying the business and carrying it forward.

We sit down with Matt and the boys to talk about:

• Long weekend missions driving Perth to Exmouth in the early days

• Cutting his teeth at Bluewater Tackle World

• Learning the ropes under Hal Harvey’s mentorship

• Opening Tackle World Exmouth and eventually buying the store

• A lifelong passion for barramundi fishing

• Favourite barra locations and proven techniques

• Being early to adopt circle hooks in WA game fishing

• The growing reality of shark depredation and near misses

• Life spearfishing the Exmouth coast

• Fishing as a way to connect generations

• Close encounters with Irukandji and box jellyfish

• Rescuing Ross Chapman after a solo marlin release went wrong

• Proper wood duck moments

• Swordfish and deep water talk

This one is equal parts fishing knowledge, life lessons, and Exmouth history.

https://www.instagram.com/tackleworldexmouth/

TALL TAILS!

Honouring the past & acknowledging the future of Australian Fishing Culture.

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 INTRO TUNE
🥩 Red Bellied Black Snake - The Beefs 🥩
Courtesy of Sam Smith
Click here to listen to The Beefs on Spotify

For all enquiries about Tall Tails Fishing Podcast, please contact [email protected]