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BUSH ‘n Beach has brought Nautilus Marine Insurance on board to expand the fine print and provide readers with clear, easy-to-understand and helpful tips on protecting their boating assets. The scenario More than 50 years ago the Daily Mirror in London backed the concept of a ‘build it at home’ boat – the 3.3m sailing dingy, the Mirror. In conjunction …

FISHING along the Clarence Coast of northern NSW during July saw anglers reap the rewards of braving the cold chilly nights, with good catches of jewfish, tailor and bream taken from the river, beaches and headlands. Inside the Clarence River, bream are spread far and wide, with Grafton angler Toby Scullen landing nice fish to 980g in Carrs Creek using …

LAST year Wynnum Marine went all out and ended up winning ‘Best Boating Display’ at the 2018 Brisbane Boat Show, and the team is aiming to take the title again this year. With the country’s leading brands including Stacer, Cruise Craft Boats and Yamaha Outboards, Wynnum Marine really has all your boating needs covered. Wynnum Marine will have almost the …

MARINE Parks helicopter patrols across north Queensland are continuing to catch fishers poaching in green zones, with several offenders fined and convicted in the past month. A series of no-take green zone poaching offences recently went before the Cairns, Townsville and Mackay Magistrates’ Courts, with fines up to $2850 and four convictions recorded — three out of the four were detected by aerial surveillance. …

HI all, I hope everyone has been able to get out for a fish since the last edition of Bush ‘n Beach hit the shelves. Over the school holidays, I was lucky enough to squeeze in a trip to one of my all-time favourite fishing destinations, Turkey Beach. The annual boys’ trip to Turkey Beach is something I look forward …

I’D been sitting around home admiring the broad spread of isobars on the weather map that indicated some very light wind heading our way and was keen to get offshore again. I didn’t know it was going to result in plan B. This good weather was going to coincide with a fishing booking for a group I have had out …

AUSTRALIAN Marine Centre will be exhibiting a huge range of premium-quality boats at this year’s Brisbane Boat Show at unbeatable boat show pricing. On display will be two of the best-built, most-reliable alloy boat brands available in Australia. Bar Crusher, whose boats are notoriously known as ‘fishing weapons’, high-tensile plate alloy boats and Aquamaster, a locally built Brisbane-based pressed tinnie. …

WHAT an amazing month we’ve had. This month we travelled to the tip of Cape York the most northern point of the Australian continent. When you hear people talk about the Cape, a lot of discussion revolves around the four-wheel-driving opportunities on the famous Telegraph Track and Gunshot, which is just a crazy vertical drop into a creek. Though the …

SEA Jay Boats is a family owned and operated business based in Queensland. From humble beginnings in 1989, Sea Jay has grown to be one of Australia’s largest boat manufacturers, building everything from small roof-topper tinnies, open boats, console boats and runabouts right through to dedicated offshore cabin boats – the range is massive! Sea Jay Boats stand for market-leading …

A FISHING trip to Swain Reefs had been on my bucket list for many years and was continually reinforced each time I read a BNB scribe’s epic trip report. As mentioned in last month’s editorial, I got the call up to accompany a select crew put together by Wilson Fishing including Troy (Dicko) Dixon, Clint Fannin, a number of tackle …