Fishing

Hi everyone, hope you are all having a nice week. As we say goodbye to winter and transition into springtime, we have seen a few showers hanging around the Tweed and Gold coasts this week. At the time of writing my report, the weather was looking wild for the weekend ahead, with close to gale-force winds coming from the south …

I’VE been speaking to a lot of anglers who have been heading wide from Yeppoon targeting red emperor and large-mouth nannygai, and many of the reports are that the fishing has been quite tough offshore. The first thing I ask most anglers who are struggling is how far they have headed out from the marina and what tactics they used. …

I’VE written articles about the correct handling of fish destined for release previously, but the message needs to be delivered to each new generation of anglers to ensure best practices are being used. Catch and release is becoming a part of the lives of more anglers every day. This is partly due to the realisation by the general angling public …

THE McArthy Buzz N Frog will be a massive hit with anglers chasing the ultimate buzz – big bad impoundment barramundi on surface! Rigged with a weighted worm hook, the Buzz N Frog becomes a deadly barra lure that can be fished on the surface or slightly below. Designed to be fished in heavy cover such as weed mats, reed …

THE Kurrimine Beach Fishing Club is located at a small seaside town on the beautiful far north Queensland coast. The warm tropical waters of Kurrimine Beach are always teeming with fish of every variety. From the flathead and whiting that kids love to catch on the beach, along with a kaleidoscope of pelagic fish, to the barramundi that keen fishers …

THE sixth annual Woodgate Beach Hotel Fishing Classic is on this September from Friday 16 to Sunday 18, located at the newly renovated Woodgate Beach Hotel. This event has grown from strength to strength over the past five years of competition, seeing over 500 entrants registered last year and a whopping prize pool of nearly $65,000. This being our sixth …

THE famous Daiwa Double Clutch family welcomes its newest and smallest member with the arrival of the 48SP. Designed as the ultimate finesse twitchbait, the Double Clutch 48 features Daiwa’s patented silent gravity oscillation weight transfer system, delivering unmatched casting performance and Double Clutch’s unmatched responsiveness when twitched and worked. The key to the S-GOS system is that it shifts …

Hi everyone, hope you are all having a nice week. Heading towards the Gold Coast Show Day long weekend at the time of writing, it looks like we will see some moderate wind, unfortunately though there’s a fairly good chance of rain hanging around. Given the conditions, if you can put up with a bit of rain, it will be …

BUNDABERG INSHORE The inshore reefs have been full of big spanish mackerel and heaps of school mackerel. Trolling large bait – such as garfish, pike or ribbonfish – has been getting a lot of the bigger spanish to bite. Most school mackerel have been caught on metal Flasha Spoons sunk to the bottom and retrieved as fast as you can. …

It’s on! As anglers, this is the type of weather we all get excited about, and for it to fall on the weekend is an added bonus. With light wind and clean swell, there was no reason to not get out there – unless you owned a small boat or are inexperienced at crossing the bar. The swell on the …