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Plenty of quality fish coming from the Noosa River

The Noosa River has again come up with some great fish for angler unable to get outside due to weather! There are still good numbers of trevally in Woods Bay early in the morning, tailor are also amongst them with surface lures like the River2sea Skinny Dogs working well. Mangrove jack are in good numbers in the upper reaches of …

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Mercury Queensland Bream Open 2017

queensland Bream Open 2017

Throughout the day we slowly upgraded our bag and were happy to weigh in 3.82kg, putting us in second place. Team Samurai Reaction’s Tristan Taylor and Dave McKenzie were the leaders with a 3.85kg bag and they had employed a similar game plan to us, fishing topwater and cranking the shallows. Team Pontoon21 was in third place with a bag …

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Anglers lapping up the action on Gold Coast

Rivers The Rivers have been fishing well after the rain, some good quality Whiting have been caught in the Logan River, Coomera North and South arms. Pimpama River and the Nerang River are the pick of the spots. The best tip is to use a nice long trace of 6lb Fluro carbon leader, 4 ball sinker and a size 6 …

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Silvester claims the 2017 Atomic Championship

bass atomic championship

Finishing second in the Pro division was last year’s champion Mitchell Cone with a six-out-of-six bag totalling 6.26kg. Mitchell earned himself a $1000 Atomic cheque, $1000 Frogleys Offshore voucher, Garmin VIRB camera, Tonic Eyewear, $590 Atomic entry credits voucher and the Atomic Championship second-place trophy. Mitchell gave it his all and really stepped up in this big event, proving how …

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Whittley boats power up with new management system

MAKE your boat safer and easier to run with Whittley Marine’s new engine and power management system. The company has joined forces with Garmin and Volvo Penta to release the system, which will be standard on all models from the giant-killing Whittley SL 22 and evergreen CR 2380 cruiser all the way up to the largest vessels in the fleet. …

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Boatie prosecuted for obstructing fisheries officers

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A BRISBANE boat skipper who refused to stop his vessel and motored off on the Logan River has been fined $1500 for obstructing fisheries officers. Beenleigh Magistrates’ Court imposed the penalty for a charge of obstruction, a serious offence under fisheries laws that has a maximum penalty of $126,150. Queensland Boating and Fisheries Patrol field officer James Hohenhaus said officers …

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Basics of buying a second-hand 4WD

buying a second-hand 4wd

As we looked into buying our new car, we made the bold decision to make it a memorable experience, and what better way to do so than to turn a purchase into an adventure! So we expanded our search south to Melbourne and soon enough found the perfect canvas. It was a tidy ZD30 CRD Patrol with low kilometres and …

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Anglers make the most of perfect Gold Coast weather

We’ve had another fantastic week of Gold Coast weather and with more good weather on the way you should get out and make the most of the local fishing action. Customers have been getting stuck into some good fishing this week. Anglers have been making the most of the light winds and small swell this week, getting stuck into nice …

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Stanage Bay local fishing report

  I now have in stock soft plastics, jigs n braid, thanks to my good customers advice.  All quality too.   Even sold out of the nuclear chicken lures they told me to get in.    Yes the weather has been anything from absolute glass to abhorren..  The S.B.M.A. Boat yard, emptied out with the notion of good weather and good fish on …

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Gold Coast fish firing despite rain

Even with a bit of rain around it’s been a good week to get out and about on the Gold Coast and chase a few fish, let’s see what was biting. The Gold Coast Seaway has been a great spot for a variety of fish firing this week, and our customers have reported good catches of Bream, Squire, Tailor, Trevally, …

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