Fish Species Guide

And just like that… we’re into autumn. Mad mackerel month The weather has made it a little difficult over the past month, with very unsettled conditions that have in turn made fishing very patchy. Mad mackerel month Some days the fish have been biting their heads off and other days… not even a nibble. Mad mackerel month I haven’t missed …

The big wet – Unless you’ve been interstate, you will know that southeast Queensland has received record flooding rainfall. The local rivers are flooding, causing major disruptions across the entire state. Sunshine Coast Noosa So how is this going to impact the fishing for the weeks to come? Sunshine Coast Noosa Offshore was showing signs of longtail tuna with the …

Hi everyone, hope you are all safe and well after the drenching from the intense weather system that past over the Gold and Tweed coasts last weekend – finally stopping on Monday, leaving a trail of flooding and destruction behind it. Given the quantity of debris moving through the system, the amount of freshwater and bad water quality… not much …

OFFSHORE / INSHORE Bundaberg fishing The weather this weekend looks like it is going to play the game, so this will be the chance to get out and chase those bigger reef species such as coral trout, red emperor and grassy sweetlip. There have also been a few nice pelagics caught off the coast. With the recent weather, we’ve not …

We try to focus on children and families, both in these articles and in the shop particularly. Teaching youth fishing There is a very good reason for this… ‘teach a child to fish and…’ Teaching youth fishing There are so many endings to this sentence and not many the same. Kids learn so much from us at a very young …

Hasn’t the year flown by already… here we are in March and winter is just around the corner. Moreton Bay round-up Pelagic action has dominated the catches coming from the bay, with plenty of doggy mackerel being caught around the beacons – mainly from the M8 north and the Measured Mile across to Moreton Island Sandhills. As usual, birds have …

It was a fantastic turn out for the 2021 Wyaralong Dam Carp and Tilapia Eradication Competition held on November 13, 2021 which saw 234 competitors smash some of the largest fish removed from the Wyaralong Dam yet, even with not ideal weather and dubious conditions leading up to and on the day. Organised by the Logan and Albert Fish Management …

It’s been a bit of a downer for some anglers, and as I mentioned last month, it’s re-think time. Largest stocking rate Yellowbelly can be taken 2.5m below the surface with small hard-body lures set around 4m behind the boat trolling or just casting into the tight inlets where water flows down from recent rainfall. Largest stocking rate The gullies …

Fishing any of the dozens of stocked man-made lakes in the sunshine state without a watercraft of some description can be frustratingly unproductive. Land-based in lakes This has become even more commonplace since the stocking of silver perch in large numbers east of the Great Dividing Range has ceased. Land-based in lakes Silver perch were readily caught from the shore, …

After three weeks of enjoying the bush, it was finally time to head east towards the coastline for our run home. Atherton and Paronella But before we made our way to the coast, there were a couple of places left on the itinerary that needed to be checked off… Atherton Tablelands and Paronella Park. Atherton and Paronella Atherton is a …