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The little Australis Bass Fishing Kayak is ideal for shing hard to access water.
ISupporting Australian-made companies
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by NEIL SCHULTZ
ID-19 pandemic, per- tions in the country. and Alvey wading bag
haps it is the realisation that we as a nation rely too heavily on imported goods.
sance of a decade ago. In a different league from the hundreds of backyard timber lure makers are a few major manufacturers who’ve been around longer than many of today’s young anglers have
bluewater trolling lures for tuna and mackerel, these manufacturers have you covered.
The company has become the dominant domestic fishing rod manufacturer since tak- ing over Snyder Glas in Brisbane, producing the Live Fibre, Venom, SureCatch and other ranges along with the original Snyder surf rods.
and bait bucket – quin- tessential Queensland beach fishing gear.
Personally, I’ve been buying Australian made as first preference for more than a quarter of a century.
When you need a met- al lure for high-speed spinning, casting from the beach or jigging in either fresh or salt water, you need look no further than Lazer Lures made by John Nowak on the Gold Coast.
Along with its flagship sidecast reels, Alvey also manufactures the aforementioned wading bags and clever plas- tic accessories includ- ing a folding measuring stick, graphite worming pliers and bait sieves for use with metal yabby pumps, hand casters and so on.
Taken almost to the point of obsession, I’ve been fishing exclusively with Australian-made lures for at least 20 years.
been fishing. Well-known brand
Along with rods, Wil- son manufactures metal fishing accessories such as landing nets, gaffs, lure retriever poles, cr- ab pots, rod holders and more.
Ignoring the focus on any particular coun- try’s imports, buying Australian made is es- sentially investing in jobs for our kids and grandchildren and sim- ply makes good sense.
names Predatek (for- merly Downunder), Oar-Gee and Lively Lures all still manufac- ture moulded lures 100 percent in Australia and are regularly on the end of my lines.
John is a second- generation lure maker whose father, John Sen- ior, was the designer and manufacturer of re- nowned Wonder Lures, an Aussie institution in its day.
Another name with a long history of tackle manufacturing in Aus- tralia is Alvey reels, this year celebrating 100 years in the indus- try.
Alvey also designs its own range of rods pur- pose built to suit Alvey sidecast reels.
Looking at fishing
gear for a start, find-
ing Australian-made
lures is very easy since
the cottage craft renais-
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During the early years of my fishing career, I regularly fished from
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Whether your require- ments are for tiny trout/ bream lures, deep-div- ing offerings for fresh- water natives, surface lures, tough mid-sized divers for the bruisers of tropical estuaries or
Wilson Fishing has been around since the ‘40s and has grown from a backyard ter- minal tackle and rod
I am lucky enough to own one of the com- pany’s ripper telescop- ic surf rods (sadly no longer in production) that is compact enough to be taken on aircraft when I fly to fishing