Fish Species Guide

This month I was going to cover the Shimano King of Kings competition but unfortunately, I’ve run out of time. Keep an eye out for an in-depth run-down next month. For this issue, we’ll have a good look around at what’s been happening locally. With the warmer weather, the estuaries have all been about grunter, fingermark, mangrove jack and barramundi. …

Autumn has arrived and with it hopefully some reprieve from the constant heat we had during January and February. reefs During February, strong wind was the norm, with only small breaks in the constant blustery conditions allowing people to sneak out wider. This restricted most people to the harbour, rivers, creeks and inshore reefs and headlands around the region. With …

Each time you go fishing, it’s an opportunity to make a difference and the Fish For Life – Keep It Clean campaign encourages you to commit to this environmental stewardship. When you dedicate your time to cleaning up shorelines and riverbanks, you prevent plastic and debris from harming marine life and inspire others to follow. Discarded rubbish pollutes our waterways, …

The Berkley Pro-Tech Bazz Bait 80S perfectly mimics the erratic action of a fleeing baitfish.   Designed for Australian species and conditions by Berkley engineers with input from Berkley Pro-Team anglers.   The smaller bibbed design gives anglers the perfect tool to fish shallow laydown structures, flats and rock bars with the same suspending super tight action as the deep …

Three more Queensland dams have been nominated to become stocked freshwater fishing destinations as part of Fisheries reforms now open for public feedback. Paradise Dam and Mount Morgan No. 7 Dam in Central Queensland and Enoggera Reservoir in Southeast Queensland have been earmarked to potentially join the Stocked Impoundment Permit Scheme (SIPS), with fingerlings released annually into the system and …

Welcome to this week’s Sunshine Coast Fishing Report. Unfortunately we’ve had another week of poor weather conditions which has resulted in a quiet week for local fishos. Smithy from Smithy’s Fishing Charters and Glen from Deep End Fishing Charters both confirmed they haven’t been offshore due to the conditions, and it doesn’t look like the upcoming week will be any …

A Townsville man has been ordered to pay close to $145,000 in relation to illegally clearing almost three football stadiums-worth of internationally-recognised wetlands in the Cape Cleveland section of Bowling Green Bay National Park. Between October 2019 and June 2020, the man illegally cleared over 19,000 square metres of previously untouched wetlands to build a road more than 2km long …

Inshore/Offshore fishing Needless to say there hasn’t been many boats heading offshore this week with consistent 20-30knot days proving to be set in for quite some time. With the weather the way it is there’s no doubt that it is the perfect time to catch up on maintenance that often times get overlooked. Trailer maintenance, reel servicing, line spooling and …

Well, what a dismal start to 2024! snapper With all the rain earlier in the year, the water around the southern bay islands was very ordinary, to say the least. Throw in the wind and trying to coordinate dates when people can go fishing with the days and weather windows available and we’ve managed only one day on the water …

Few Daiwa rods possess a history like the TD Commander.   Rooted deep in the folklore of Daiwa, the Commanders traditionally referenced Japanese angling icons, hand-picked to develop their own custom models in series such as the original TD Battler.   Developed with input from local angling heroes, the TD Commander line up is designed to perfectly cater for Australian conditions …