Fisherman’s info? Start of tall fish story involving bass (4,5)

'fisherman's info?' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.

'start of tall fish story involving bass' is the wordplay.
'start of' suggests taking the first letters.
'fish' becomes 'ide' (type of fish).
'story' becomes 'tale' (synonyms).
'involving' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'bass' becomes 'b' (abbreviation in music).
The initial letter of 'tall' is 't'.
'tale' going around 'b' is 'table'.
't'+'ide'+'table'='TIDE-TABLE'

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