When it’s cold, rug up and get into a couple of species that love the cooler weather. Winter whiting are in great numbers all over Moreton Bay and there are still a few summer whiting hanging around too. Chasing winter whiting is great for the kids, they only need light gear and, when land based, you don’t have to worry …

Designed to power bigger sustainable adventures on the water, the new Avator 75e and 110e electric outboards are the latest to join Mercury’s all-electric propulsion line-up, which also includes the Avator 7.5e, 20e and 35e. The Avator 75e and 110e electric outboards are poised to be Mercury’s most powerful and capable models to date, promising boaters unparalleled performance. Mercury Marine …

The annual Boyne Tannum HookUp was once again held on the May Day long weekend, celebrating 29 years. It lived up to its reputation of being Australia’s biggest family fishing competition, offering over $450,000 in angler and promotional prizes, its biggest prize pool yet. Even with heavy rainfall in the fortnight leading up to and during the event, the persistent …

Be strong, no limit. Certate 24 Certate’s new catch phrase perfectly embodies the next generation of Daiwa’s iconic and much-loved flagship reel. Now equipped with Daiwa’s latest spin reel design concept, airdrive design, Certate is more refined than ever and ready to take on the challenge of Australia’s hardest fighting fish. The cornerstone of Certate’s reputation is a solid aluminium …

The striped marlin tagged by Al McGlashan on 17 February was recaptured in mid-May 2024 by a longline vessel fishing wide of Narooma. The commercial fishing crew kindly returned the tag to us, so we were able to download all the data held by the tag which provides highly detailed information on the vertical movements of the fish through the …

Inshore Fishing With the recent spells of good weather providing plenty of opportunities for anglers to get out we have sure seen some amazing fish being landed. The great thing about our inshore reefs and wrecks is that you don’t need a big boat to get into the action! There has been some really good numbers of jewfish, stripeys and …

The Bastard Smith Brothers, based in central Queensland, live and breathe adventure. If they’re not hunting a hog in the scrub, they’re sending it to the reef to fill an Esky with some of the finest table fish found on the east coast! Here they test drive the Penn Spinfisher VII – click here to check out the video and …

Catching reef fish just got easier. Shimma Vector Vibe was developed by Berkley engineers in collaboration with our pro anglers to target species in deeper water. With a natural baitfish profile made from TPE, a single hook and a wide range of colours, we head to the reef to test them against some of Australia’s hardest fighting table fish. Berkley …

Venture into the wild with Daiwa’s latest addition to their travel rod line-up, the all-new 23 Wilderness X. A merging of two of the brand’s most popular light-tackle rod series, Wilderness X takes the popular three-piece models from TD Hyper and TD Black and upgrades them into a single dedicated travel series with more models and more joints than ever …

While considered ‘old school’ by some in the fly or lure-only fraternity, the truth is bait fishing will always have a place in fishing, from the beginner to the experienced. And while I love lure fishing in a variety of scenarios – from tossing lures off the beach to trolling lures for everything from mackerel to marlin in the salt …