HOLIDAY time – beauty! Pack the tent and other camping gear into the boat, load up the car and head for that idyllic beachside camping ground where you’ve booked one of the best sites. Sounds like the perfect plan, and it is, provided you first make a couple of very important checks. Here’s your first one – is your boat …

BUNDABERG INSHORE The inshore reefs have been on fire, with plenty of small school mackerel, big spanish mackerel, snapper and grunter around and feeding. The schoolie mackerel have been the easiest fish to catch this week, with almost anything you can troll out the back of your boat getting a bite. The bigger spanish have been scattered but using a …

Spring has sprung fishing Well, that’s farewell to winter as we ticked over into September. The cold nights gave way to warmer day temperatures and a noticeable change, until the rains moved in for Friday and Saturday. Until that, the post-new moon provided hot fishing offshore for some and quiet for others. Out wide around North Reef and beyond, there …

  THE 2022 Baffle Creek Family Fishing Festival is on again. It is going to be its biggest year yet with over $30,000 worth of cash and prizes. This includes a 3.7 Sea Jay boat with 15hp Yamaha on a registered Oceanic trailer to be won by entrants, as well as over $3000 worth of prizes for the Family Fun …

AFTA 2022 – Best combo winner Daiwa has long been leading the way for light tackle sport fishing equipment. It began with brands such as Gekkabijin, evolved to SilverWolf and now has come full circle, with the release of the 20 Infeet rod range. Gleaned from years of experience in creating the pinnacle of finesse rod designs in Japan and …

THE Gold Coast Sportfishing Club in conjunction with Surf Coast Marine, Quintrex and Suzuki Marine is delighted to offer anglers and boaties a chance to win a fantastic Quintrex Renegade Boat and Trailer package. The Renegade range is fast becoming a favourite among keen fishos as a no-fuss fishing machine. Complete with a front and rear casting platform, the mighty …

THE person has an obligation – a general biosecurity obligation – to take all reasonable and practical measures to prevent or minimise the biosecurity risk – quoted as per the Queensland Biosecurity Act 2014, Chapter 2, Part 1, Section 23. Introduced fish species have been established in Queensland for far too long and there seems to be no active plan …

Artefacts found at Rooneys Bridge were uncovered recently while TMR were upgrading the bridge in Railway Estate, Townsville! Rooneys Bridge is a crucial link between Townsville’s central business district and southern suburbs. It was built back to 1953—but we weren’t expecting to uncover a historic find like this one! Artefacts found were steam engines that used to power the cranes …

Fisheries Officers in the state’s west have been busy protecting Murray Cod as their annual breeding season approaches. Four men and one woman have been apprehended at Euston on the Murray River for offences relating to being in possession of Murray Cod greater than the 75cm upper limit. One of the fish was found to be hidden under the flooring …

BUNDABERG INSHORE this week Last weekend and this week have seen great numbers of mackerel caught in close on a range of different lures and bait. Trolling large garfish, pike or tailor has been the best way to target the bigger fish, with the old saying ‘big bait big fish’ working a treat. Trolling deep diving lures such as the …