/ 01 May 2024

Straight to the pool room

fishing

A teenager in the Top End has won a million dollars after reeling in a prize fish as part of a lucrative NT fishing competition. Nineteen-year-old Keegan Payne was out in his tinny on the Katherine River when his 11yo sister Addyson spotted the specially tagged barramundi. “He thought it was a catfish, but it was a barra… he was jumping around, screaming”. Keegan is the first person to win the Territory’s Million Dollar Fish competition, set up to lure tourists to the NT in the quieter wet season. He’s now working out how to share the money with his parents and 7 siblings, saying, “it’s pretty hard going for us at the moment with money, but now with a million dollars, don’t have to complain about it”.  Keegan says the family’s planning a trip to America – and he might just shout himself a new boat… 

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