Fishing guide unrepentant about abusing clients, pooing from boat and hitting catfish with a bat

A fishing guide from Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory has hit back after a customer claimed that he pooed off the front of his boat, abused him and his fellow travellers and hit fish over the head with a baseball bat. TripAdvisor user Robrobbo from Brisbane described his group’s fishing safari with Allan Beale from Darwin’s Barra Base as “so bad it was good”.



“Once we hit the water with Allan I think we were all looking around for the hidden cameras,” he wrote. “Abused at the boat ramp whilst attempting to help him launch the boat, abused when we hooked a fish, abused when we lost a fish, witnesses to the man himself defecating off the front of the boat … All in all, Robrobbo was philosophical about the adventure.



“Sure we spotted up over $3k each for the abuse but the accommodation on safari was good (Stuart Point), the wildlife was extraordinary and the conversations that we had over the three days on the water catching nothing bar (F!^king) catfish were pretty excellent (minus the hollow cracking noise that Allan’s baseball bat made on the Catfish’s heads – aaaah the serenity ...),” the post said. “One thing I will say though is you CANNOT question Allan’s passion for the ‘metrey’.” But Mr Beale, the owner and operator of Darwin’s Barra Base, wasn’t going to take gibes from southerners lying down.



“Yes, I swear at times, sorry that you have taken this as abuse to yourself,” he responded. “I believe your group did not land a metrey but hooked and lost plenty; I remember one guy actually just gave up the fight, and the barra flicked him off. This is frustrating when guides work all day to get you on to the big fish and clients cannot handle them. Yes, I assist to minimise the population of catfish, they are a pest and sometimes come into Shady Camp in droves.” And as for him “defecating” off the front of the boat, well … “if a man has to go, like you all did, then we have to go”. Mr Beale also pointed out that Darwin’s Barra Base lands more than 30 metreys (metre-long barramundi) a year.