Community and Fishing | Visiting Lake Tyers Trust

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:02]Good job.

[00:00:03]He he was commentating on like Eddie Betts. Hey Oz, we're heading out to Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust. Um we're doing some fishing, but um this location has a special place in um Carlton's history. Uh back in 1913, Carlton actually came out here and played uh against the first documented all indigenous team, uh Lake Tyers, who actually walked to the game, believe it or not. And um they're looking forward to getting out there and hopefully catching some fish. It's like this magical salmon. Um trying to feed it to I think a young uh Uh I think it's like the person cooking it accidentally burned himself on the salmon.

[00:00:44]And then like licks his fingers like that.

[00:00:47]Then he gets the knowledge before the other guy. So knowledge of the salmon. Yeah.

[00:00:52]Not a gap in that story.

[00:00:54]That's That's Yeah, that It's like Lake Tyers. Yeah, yeah.

[00:01:01]I'd like to take this moment to say a special thank you to the Carlton Football Club. My name is Wayne Hood.

[00:01:09]I'm the chairman of this uh Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust. Also known as Bangan.

[00:01:14]And I understand you're going to catch a fish down here.

[00:01:17]So put that energy through the smoke and see what happens.

[00:01:20]>> [laughter] >> Lake Tyers is one of the first place first communities, I should say, to be handed back to the um Aboriginal people back in 1970, and um received title to the land back in '71.

[00:01:36]Our um community, it was a mission back in those days where people actually worked as well, just for rations, I suppose, and they never got a quid in their pocket.

[00:01:45]It was always in food rations and whatever they got, clothing.

[00:01:51]And you know, it was very very difficult and very hard times for them, and our people had to live in those conditions, but in saying that, it made us a stronger people. Football club come down to Lake Tyers here.

[00:02:07]And that was the first well, VFL back then.

[00:02:11]First VFL team come and played an all Aboriginal team from Lake Tyers.

[00:02:18]It was 1930.

[00:02:21]And um Lake Tyers fellas really put the pressure on them.

[00:02:26]And apparently they just kicked one point.

[00:02:30]>> [laughter] >> I'm hoping that they show you the beauties that we have saying and um look, if if I go home with a with a great story and I hope that um our place of healing, which is um can make them better off within themselves. And I don't speak to them I don't say that as athletes. I'm talking about them as a person.

[00:03:01]Yeah, the community really came out. We had a little lunch and smoking ceremony, which was great. And there was heaps of Carlton fans out there as well, which was awesome. And it was a great experience. Also, I met a few of the community members up here and had a chat with a few of the younger fellas. And now we're just fishing out here at Lake Tyers.

[00:03:25]I literally had it in for 10 seconds.

[00:03:27]That's all right.

[00:03:28]Natural fisherman, huh? Where's my Where's my culture at?

[00:03:32]Just a guy.

[00:03:36]Oh, yeah. Oh, I thought I was pretty good fisherman, but I haven't caught anything yet. Jazz is You don't really go out on the rod, do you? Yeah, no, I don't. We're all watching Duffy at the moment. It's his first time fishing, which we weren't aware of before the trip, so Salmon of knowledge. Did he cast the rod when he caught it?

[00:03:52]No, someone else did it for him.

[00:03:54]Yeah.

[00:03:56]Yeah, you got it. Oh, that's big. That's big, Briny.

[00:04:01]Briny, BRINY, BRINY.

[00:04:04]>> [laughter] >> THAT'S MASSIVE.

[00:04:08]WHAT DO YOU RECKON? THAT'S MASSIVE, HEY.

[00:04:10]What is that, Briny, hey?

[00:04:12]I don't know. I don't know. You think it's Briny, yeah? It's Briny, hey. It's Briny, yeah.

[00:04:17]What are you doing? I'm fishing.

[00:04:20]Catching more fish than Chaz. Catching more fish than Chaz. And he reckons he's catching more. That's not true.

[00:04:27]Briny.

[00:04:29]over there. He's right there.