Shrek left the building, so Sam the Waterman grabbed the mic, and it went about how you’d expect. Recorded on night two of the first ever 1770 Beginner Spearfishing Retreat run without the big fella, this one starts with a full trivia night: buddy rules, Boyle’s Law, world record bluefin, Molchanov’s 136 m dive and a Bali Files round about Noffs’ travel disasters. Then Ben Rennie wins the Shrek-impersonation bonus with a Killshot ad read, and “Bulletproof Buddy Protocol” gets exposed as something nobody has ever heard Shrek say. After that the students and instructors “dob in a legend”: Tom Smythe tells the story of a cobia fight that ended in a tangle of float lines, Ting shoots her first fish ever (having never freedived before), and seasick Matt comes back to crack 10 m and have a fish in the boat within 25 minutes. It’s for anyone who’s wondered what a Noob Spearo retreat is like from the inside, and for every spearo who keeps being told to “slow down”.

• 00:00:41 — Sam the Waterman takes over the intro. It’s the first 1770 retreat ever run without Shrek, and the crew report on how it’s going.
• 00:01:00 — Meet the crew: Mark (lead), Bri, Ben Rennie (camera and scorer), Nick and Tom Smythe (up from Coffs) and Brad (Gold Coast).
• 00:03:15 — Round 1, Safety and Fundamentals: the four-word buddy rule, and the bonus “Noob Spearo version” nobody has heard of.
• 00:04:10 — Which gas hyperventilation strips from your blood, and why that sets you up for a blackout.
• 00:05:40 — The recovery breathing every instructor drills for the moment you surface, then 10 m neutral buoyancy and Boyle’s Law.
• 00:06:40 — Ikejime and the thing it delays (spelling was marked strictly, so “rigatoni mortis” didn’t count).
• 00:07:50 — Answers. “Bulletproof Buddy Protocol” gets a room full of blank faces.
• 00:10:30 — Round 2, World Records: Terry Maas’s 1982 bluefin, a Kiwi who shares his name with a Rat Pack crooner, Greg Pickering’s Spanish mackerel from Dorre Island and Carlos Siqueira’s 301 kg blue marlin.
• 00:13:30 — True or false: the women’s Indo-Pacific blue marlin record beats the men’s.
• 00:17:00 — Round 3, Freediving and Physiology: the mammalian dive reflex, why most blackouts happen in the last 10 m, samba/LMC, Molchanov’s 136 m CWT and Mifsud’s static record.
• 00:21:30 — Round 4, Equipment: why spearos avoid ultra-low-volume masks, shackles vs shark clips, what a flasher does, and speargun rubber in the tropics vs the Arctic.
• 00:23:30 — The Shrek-impersonation bonus. Ben Rennie’s Killshot ad read takes the three points.
• 00:26:40 — Equipment answers, where Shrek loses a point for his own flasher answer.
• 00:27:50 — Round 5, the Noob Spearo round: Full Froth No Ego, the launch year, 99 Tips and The Floater (a.k.a. “the big turd”).
• 00:32:50 — Round 6, The Bali Files: how many things went wrong for Noffs on the way to Bali, the instructor course in Amed, Adam’s mindset tools (the nana voice, the poo emoji, no plan B) and the discipline that “feels like cheating”.
• 00:36:50 — Final scores. Nick takes the trivia crown with 21.
• 00:38:00 — Mark wraps day two: instructors scouting reefs before the students even got wet, and a 100% pass rate.
• 00:38:50 — Fish comp results: Holly and Andy tie for first, Zach’s big fish, Ting’s award for the loudest stoke, Matt’s one-shot best kill and Sam winning the instructor comp again.
• 00:42:10 — Dob in a Legend starts. Fozzie on Matt coming back from the dead, Zach’s cobia, and staying calm on the drop.
• 00:44:00 — Brad’s instructor takeaway: teaching others keeps you learning.
• 00:45:15 — Bri on how buddy care between strangers turned into the highlight of the trip.
• 00:49:10 — Tom Smythe’s cobia story: a float line wrapped around two spearos, a fish fighting hard, and then a second “cobia” that turned out to be a shark.
• 00:53:00 — Tegan’s first fish is a coral trout, and her lesson: go slow, but not too slow.
• 00:55:10 — Andy’s trout lesson: dive-bomb them, and wait when they square up.
• 00:58:30 — Nick on keeping your eyes on the fish through the duck dive, and why a spearo sometimes has to dive before the perfect breathe-up.
• 01:01:40 — Dan on persistence, and on getting properly familiar with your gear before the trip.
• 01:03:40 — Holly learns to slow down, and Sam admits what his GoPro footage revealed about his own “slow” diving.
• 01:07:10 — Chris, a Sydney spearo, gets his first taste of the Great Barrier Reef. Dropping on top of coral trout changed everything for him.
• 01:12:20 — Kate on women getting into spearfishing, and why the no-ego vibe matters.
• 01:15:30 — Zach, the retreat’s biggest frother, on why a group celebration beats his own cobia.
• 01:18:10 — Ben Rennie wins People’s Choice, then shares Alex’s parrotfish moment and his motto: “you make your own luck”.
• 01:21:40 — Alex takes home two fixes: the 45-degree eyes-on-fish descent and a splash-free duck dive.
• 01:23:10 — Matt: slow down, and remember the look on everyone’s faces when the reef came into view.
• 01:25:00 — Ting’s first ever freedive and first ever fish, while understanding “maybe 30%” of what the Aussies were saying.
• 01:28:10 — Mark on leading without Shrek, what goes on behind the scenes, and Matt and Ting’s comeback from 5 m to 10 m.
• 01:34:30 — Sign-off, with a group “Full Froth, No Ego”.

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At 26, Matty Parker was locked into a Pilbara mining job.

He came over for one Coral Sea trip, went home, sold everything inside a couple of months, and drove across Australia to get out of the golden handcuffs.

Twenty-five years of spearing later he manages Divers World in Cairns — the biggest and longest-running shop up that way — and runs MBP Spearfishing Charters, and he’s the bloke every local kept telling Shrek to interview.

This one gets into the weeds properly: his entire dogtooth setup top to tail, the three-point brief he gives clients before a Coral Sea drift (“when you think you’re closer, get closer again”), why he keeps a scorecard of every fish landed and lost and what one-in-three actually looks like, the 10–30kg window where doggies get eaten fastest, and why he moves off a spot the moment it fires.

There’s also a proper, unflinching yarn about the shark situation in North Queensland after an ugly year for Aussie spearos, and Matty’s flat-out best answer of the episode — what it costs you to spend two years shooting fish in eight metres. Cost ’em nothing. Gain everything.

If you’re saving for a blue water trip, thinking about your first big gun, or you just want to hear a bloke who’s put in the hours talk about hunting instead of depth numbers, this one’s for you.

• 00:00:44 — Shrek sets up the episode: dogtooth gear, guiding pitfalls, social media’s grip on spearos, and the shark conversation nobody wants to have
• 00:01:20 — Free shout out to Spearo App, a completely free spearfishing forecasting app, and the level of detail that gobsmacked Shrek
• 00:03:00 — Fish One Hook’s power band size calculator, plus the free Noob Spearo scorecards at spearfishingcourses.com.au/scorecard
• 00:05:34 — Matty comes highly recommended — Shrek explains who kept telling him to get Matty on the show
• 00:06:49 — Started spearing at 10 in a small northern WA town; the Coral Sea trip at 26 that made him sell up and drive across Australia away from the golden handcuffs of mining
• 00:09:13 — Why “the trip of a lifetime” is the wrong mindset to bring on charter, and what the fish actually are (a bonus)
• 00:11:01 — WA vs the East Coast: fish density and shore access over there, weather-dependent reef trips over here
• 00:13:05 — Seven trout a day in Queensland is “astronomical”, and why the North QLD weather is a green zone in itself
• 00:14:12 — His first Coral Sea mission: two doggies landed before he lost one, then the figures went backwards fast
• 00:15:07 — Why hiding your gear from other spearos isn’t okay — shot placement and gear are the only two things we control, so share them
• 00:18:22 — THE FULL DOGTOOTH RIG, TOP TO TAIL: a 130–150cm conventional gun (he runs a 70″ Riffe Rader), three or four 16mm rubbers, 8.7mm shaft, slip tip, 23m float line, a 3-atmosphere float, a short 2–5m line, and a second 3-atmosphere float. Nothing else
• 00:21:19 — The shot-placement point most people miss: all that gun power is for getting through a foot-and-a-half of fish, not for taking longer shots
• 00:22:14 — Stone shots, the anti-climax-then-relief feeling, and why hearing the boys screaming on the surface is the best part
• 00:23:25 — “Doggies bring out the best and the worst in everyone” — diving on each other and shooting each other’s fish vs. proper team work
• 00:25:33 — What happens in the first 60 seconds after the shot: withstand the first run, then get it up fast, because that’s when they get eaten
• 00:26:31 — Matty’s shark theory — the 10–30kg window where doggies are too strong to overpower but small enough for sharks to eat quickly, and why big fish often survive longer
• 00:27:28 — The scorecard he’s kept since day one: every shot fired that doesn’t end on the boat counts as a loss, and he’s landing roughly one in three
• 00:29:42 — The three-point brief: get closer twice (take two more kicks when you think the shot’s on), take your time, and work as a team
• 00:30:44 — Fish karma — why not taking the bad shot pays you back somewhere else, maybe a year later in another country
• 00:32:16 — There are blokes on Matty’s list who can’t buy their way back onto a trip
• 00:33:53 — Life in the shop at Divers World, and the pre-YouTube days of nagging the newsagent for the first-Thursday-of-the-month dive mag
• 00:35:00 — The apprenticeship problem: “everyone wants to be the tradesman and no one wants to do their apprenticeship” — plus 100 hours a year, five years, then start pushing depth
• 00:36:59 — An 8kg red doesn’t taste as good as a 4kg red, so who exactly are you shooting big fish for?
• 00:37:20 — Matty’s definition of a good spearo: someone who knows how to find fish and hunt them. That’s it. “If you want to be a free diver, go be a free diver”
• 00:38:31 — Shrek on the gap between physiology and wisdom — you can learn to lay on the bottom in 20m quickly, but the ocean will still beat you
• 00:42:54 — Advice for green divers: pool training, join the club, then find one or two people at your level and grow together
• 00:43:11 — The self-check Matty runs on every dive: surface, look around, and if no one’s within 20 metres you’re only diving at 30% today
• 00:46:25 — How MBP started — the client on the tender who reignited it, four or five years of trips through the shop, then going out on his own
• 00:47:38 — His October 4–12 Coral Sea trip and the nine-day structure: steam out overnight, wake up in the Coral Sea, six full dive days
• 00:51:08 — Why the Coral Sea holds every Australian dogtooth record — the vis, the pinnacles rising from a kilometre of water, and how few boats actually get out there
• 00:52:14 — Doggies aren’t migratory and aren’t even tuna — they’re mackerel (Gymnosarda unicolor), resident on their pinnacles, and Matty’s seen the same fish a year apart
• 00:53:18 — When to be in the water: tide change, first light, and the golden hour on a shoal
• 00:55:00 — Why he never dives the same spot twice on a trip, even after a 20-fish afternoon — spread the pressure and the fish are there in three years
• 00:56:59 — Eating doggie: it freezes badly, ciguatera risk on the big models, sashimi most nights on the boat, and euro mounts for the jaws
• 00:59:28 — Burley and flashers: pilchards over fish frames (running a knife through fish aggravates sharks), and his basic buzz-bomb flasher with a knife jig and three double-sided mirrors
• 01:01:00 — Flash with purpose — “don’t just do it because I said go over there and flash”, plus why he stays on the flasher to call the dives
• 01:02:22 — Tracking a big gun with a breakaway: gun down, hand on the handle, and steering it through the water by the muzzle like a surfboard
• 01:04:21 — Finding the white dot on the tail knuckle in black water — and why the fish is invisible without it
• 01:05:39 — He works out every diver on the boat at the dinner the night before the charter
• 01:06:40 — “I won’t shoot a doggy under 30 kilo” — how expectations set by social media wreck people’s trips before they get wet
• 01:08:14 — Shrek’s horror story: the charter client who wouldn’t buddy up, 100 nautical miles offshore, and how far Shrek escalated it
• 01:11:33 — A week with no reception, and how the bloke you wanted to push over the side on day one is your mate by day four
• 01:13:52 — Shrek’s vision statement — reconnecting people with themselves, their food, the natural world and each other
• 01:15:18 — Beyond doggies: red emperor, Maori sea perch, buffalo emperor, iron jaw and green job fish, plus the wahoo, yellowfin and marlin you have to go and hunt separately
• 01:16:37 — The 140–150kg marlin that snapped a straight shaft last year — another argument for slip tips
• 01:17:32 — Reading current in the Coral Sea (it’s all ocean current, not tidal), and the October moon that fired then went dead five weeks later
• 01:19:59 — The Noob Spearo x MBP trip: a Great Barrier Reef trip heading north past Lizard Island in March
• 01:20:40 — What the B in MBP stands for, and the middle name Shrek and Matty share
• 01:21:43 — SHARKS: an ugly year for Aussie spearos, and Matty’s honest read on why it’s changed
• 01:22:03 — His two-part theory — social media virtue signalling plus an education gap — and the fact that a shark now has no commercial value in Australia
• 01:24:51 — Shrek’s flake confession, and how spearos take an abundant freezer completely for granted
• 01:26:18 — The maths on shark bycatch, and how visibly the aggression has changed in the water in five years
• 01:27:57 — The angry email Shrek wrote about “just buy your fish from the supermarket” comments on dead divers’ posts
• 01:29:53 — Matty’s in-water protocol: he can read an area in ten minutes and pull everyone out. “There’s no fish that’s worth any part of my body”
• 01:31:06 — The reefs off Hinchinbrook with resident, territorial bull sharks, and bites that happened in 20m of vis
• 01:33:21 — Shark deterrents: no one wearing one has been bitten, the scorpion tail zapping you on the duck dive, and how confidence itself changes a shark’s read on you
• 01:35:00 — Shrek gets charged on the bottom by a bull shark, and the seasons where he simply can’t relax enough to dive properly
• 01:36:42 — The most dangerous thing beginners (and plenty of experienced blokes) do: gun handling, clipped guns pointing at the diver behind them, finger on the trigger
• 01:38:36 — The best answer of the episode: if you could only shoot fish in eight metres for the next two years, what does it cost you? “Cost ’em nothing. And you gain everything”
• 01:40:09 — Shrek’s traditional ocean poo story request, answered from a back deck in California
• 01:41:16 — Where to find Matty and both trips, plus the price bracket
• 01:43:31 — Outro: Deep North with Matty and Shrek, March 2027 — spearfishingcourses.com.au/deepnorth

Connect with Matty Parker

• MBP Spearfishing Charters — Coral Sea and Great Barrier Reef charters out of Cairns
• Instagram: @mbp_spearfishing
• MBP Spearfishing Charters on Facebook
• Divers World Cairns — where Matty manages the shop

🔥 DEEP NORTH — Noob Spearo x MBP | 13–21 March 2027

Nine days aboard the Norkat II out of Half Moon Bay Marina, Cairns, hunting remote sections of the Great Barrier Reef north of Lizard Island. Ten guests max, two in-water guides the whole trip (Matty and Shrek), all meals, fish processing and freezing, tenders, reef fees and a custom trip shirt included. $7,200pp, $2,500 deposit, payment plans available.

→ Deep North | Great Barrier Reef Spearfishing Charter

Also mentioned

• Spearo App — free spearfishing forecasting app
• Fishes One Hook — power band size calculator under Gear Reviews
• Free Noob Spearo Scorecards — Spearo Readiness Scorecard (not started yet) and Skilled Spearo Scorecard (already diving). Two minutes, custom results to your inbox
• Gear referenced: Riffe Raider 70″ (or 67″), 8.7mm / 11:32 shaft, 16mm rubbers, slip tips, 3-atmosphere floats
• Shark Shield / shark deterrent units
• Previous episode referenced: Johnny Mitchell on decoding the wild
• Previous episode referenced: Rob Allen on flasher design

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• Audible.com Get a free audiobook along with a 30-day trial here. Listen to 99 Tips to Get Better at Spearfishing
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What if becoming a better spearo had less to do with diving deeper or buying better gear—and more to do with learning how to actually see what’s happening around you?

In this episode, Shrek sits down with commercial fisherman, spearo, hunter and lifelong observer of the natural world Johnny Mitchell, with Johnny’s longtime mate Tim McDonald joining the conversation.

Johnny has spent decades living, fishing, hunting and observing in the bush and on the water. From commercially chasing Spanish mackerel and mud crabs to living out of a swag, caretaking Cape Capricorn lighthouse and spending countless hours simply watching animals behave, he has developed an extraordinary ability to recognise patterns in the natural world.

The conversation explores awareness, natural intelligence, tides, weather, animal behaviour, sensory awareness and pattern recognition—and why asking simplistic questions like “Is the full moon better?” or “Does falling barometric pressure make fish bite?” can actually hold back your learning.

Johnny explains why every productive fishing or spearfishing location has its own combination of features and conditions, and why the better question is often:

Why were the fish here today—and why weren’t they here yesterday?

Tim also shares how Johnny’s influence has completely changed the way he approaches spearfishing: shooting fewer fish, observing more, recognising short feeding windows and learning to know where to be, when to be there and why.

This one goes well beyond spearfishing. It’s a conversation about reconnecting with the natural world, waking up dulled senses and becoming less dependent on apps, assumptions and handed-down rules.

00:00 – Introduction to Johnny Mitchell
03:00 – Johnny joins Shrek and Tim McDonald
04:00 – Johnny’s background: fishing, hunting and living wild
06:00 – Your subconscious is collecting more information than you realise
07:00 – Awareness: the foundation of everything
09:00 – Living at Cape Capricorn lighthouse
11:00 – Why good experiences lead to better questions
12:00 – Hunting versus simply observing animals
15:00 – Watching fish footage 100 times
17:00 – How Johnny changed Tim McDonald’s approach to hunting
18:00 – Pattern recognition and exponential learning
19:00 – The most important question: Why?
20:00 – Observational intelligence versus handed-down knowledge
23:00 – Nature is multidimensional: beware single-variable thinking
29:00 – New moon vs full moon: are we asking the wrong questions?
31:00 – Understanding the specific tide window for a spot
34:00 – Johnny’s “Zoom Out” technique
36:00 – Using landscape, wind and Google Earth to understand a fishing location
38:00 – How modern life dulls our senses
40:00 – “Unbroken connection” with the natural world
44:00 – How disconnected have we become?
46:00 – From awareness to recognising patterns and predicting opportunities
48:00 – Knowledge removes scarcity and makes you a more generous diver
52:00 – Making more space in your life for the outdoors
54:00 – You can start reconnecting with nature in ten minutes
58:00 – Why understanding fisheries can become extremely complicated
1:00:00 – Observing more and killing less
1:04:00 – Spearfishing has to become about more than killing fish
1:06:00 – Old-school dogtooth tuna and spearfishing stories
1:09:00 – You don’t need a $100,000 boat
1:10:00 – Why most fishermen don’t actually understand weather
1:12:00 – From reading conditions to predicting a 130 cm barramundi
1:14:00 – Johnny’s Break Free three-day program
1:16:00 – Becoming a better spearo by becoming a better person
1:18:00 – Psychology, learning and actually applying knowledge
1:22:00 – Everything Johnny teaches can begin at a duck pond
1:24:00 – Throw the barometer question in the bin
1:28:00 – Testing theories instead of turning observations into rules
1:31:00 – What does Break Free actually mean?
1:32:00 – Johnny’s links and wrap-up

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Blood noses at 32 metres, nappies floating past mid-breathe-up, and a bloke sprinting freestyle across the open ocean after a borrowed Kraken roller gun — part two of the Bali crew’s adventure has the lot. Matty, Liv, Noffs, Rhys (No Viz) and Chiz wrap up their freediving instructors course with Adam Sellars and The Pressure Project, battling flu, an LMC scare and one heartbreaking dynamic apnea before every single one of them gets it done. Then it’s a few hours up the coast to Singaraja to spear the rumpongs — Bali’s handmade floating FADs — with the experienced local guides at Spearo Co, where triple tail come in like chickens of the ocean and the mahi mahi turn up in numbers. Liv’s redemption dynamic after four failed attempts is worth the listen alone, and Helios from Spearo Co jumps on at the end to talk Kraken Spearguns and fad season. If you’ve ever thought about doing your freediving instructors, or spearing Bali’s blue water on a budget, this one’s for you.

The crew:

• Rhys — No Viz Adventures 🎣 No Vis Adventures (Flash) — @novizadventures
• Noffs — Ryan Noffke: @nof_fke
• Liv Rose: @livvyrosephotos_
• Matty: @mattdepaoli
• Chiz: @ch1zza

Mentioned in the episode:

• Spearo Co (Bali spearfishing charters) — Instagram: @spearo_co
• Kraken Spearguns — krakenspearfishing.com
• The Pressure Project — Adam Sellars (freediving instructors course, Bali) — thepressureproject.com.au
• Rhys’s channel — No Viz Adventures
• DiveR Fins — www.diverfins.com
• Interested in a Noob Spearo Bali trip? Register at spearfishingcourses.com.au or email shrek@noobspearo.com

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• Adreno Spearfishing – Buy your spearfishing equipment here. Use the code NOOBSPEARO to save $20 on every purchase over $200 at checkout – Flat shipping rate, especially in AUS!
• Neptonics Spearfishing and Freediving – Use the code NOOB10 to save 10% off anything store-wide. Free Shipping on USA orders over $99
• Old Man Blue | Wickedly tough and well thought out gear! Spend $300 or more at oldmanblue.com.au and use code NOOBSPEARO for a free vinyl filleting apron!
• Aqualyte Hydration | 10% off for listeners with code: NOOBSPEARO
• Noob Spearo MAD GEAR | Merch for Frothers
• Audible.com Get a free audiobook along with a 30-day trial here. Listen to 99 Tips to Get Better at Spearfishing
• Dog & Gun Coffee | 10% Off Discount Code: NOOB10
• HohnkeOutdoors.com – 20% off with code NOOBSPEARO

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