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THE Bagley Minnow B 05 is a shallow-diving fish slayer, with an irresistible action and internal rattle chambers. It is a 5” floating jerk minnow with Bagley’s legendary action and internal rattle chambers that call fish to the lure. Twitch it and pause it to attract brutal surface strikes, or punch, roll and pause it sub-surface to draw fish out of …

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So what can we expect after these floods? Well I feel it could be late April or the start of May before it really cleans up, so with a bit of luck the water will be clear for the start of our flathead, bream and winter snapper seasons. We might even see the start of the winter whiting season. The …

AFTER considering the latest available science and data, the independent Australian Fisheries Management Authority Commission agreed to the revised Harvest Strategy for the Commonwealth Small Pelagic Fishery  and set new total allowable catch limits for the 2017-18 fishing season, commencing May 1, 2017. Underpinning the Harvest Strategy was further testing undertaken during 2016 and advice from the SPF Scientific Panel and …

pIt’s been a nice week on Gold Coast with all our Houseboat hirers enjoying ANZAC day on the Broadwater. With the Labour Day Long Weekend in sight let’s have a look at some fishing options on the Gold Coast. Prawns have been around in big numbers for the past week leading up to the new moon with many anglers getting …

With the weather looking perfect for the Anzac Day public holiday families were out in force fishing the Noosa River, flathead have been a standout species in the river being taken on live bait, dead baits and soft plastics. Some real monsters have been about with fish over 80 cm mark. Whitebait fished on gang hooks have been a great …

There were a couple of good days of weather earlier this week around the Bundaberg area, allowing some boats to head out and along the coast. Most of the inshore reefs produced some quality fishing.  There are good numbers of school and grey mackerel moving offshore, with the odd big spanish mackerel mixed in with them.  Most of the spanish …

SEQWATER has extended the deadline for its 2017 Water for life community grants program to make sure those impacted by ex-tropical cyclone Debbie have the opportunity to apply for funding. Seqwater acting chief executive officer Jim Pruss said the closing date for submission of detailed applications had been pushed from May 1 to May 15, 2017. The annual program offers …

A TEAM of scientists at the Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia have come up with a remedy for a highly lethal and contagious prawn disease that could save millions for farmers. Injections of silver nanoparticles were successfully tested in Mexico, where the white spot syndrome virus epidemic in prawns has been a huge problem for several years. The drug developed by …

Current situation – white spot disease update Disease control activities have resumed on the impacted prawn farms in the Logan River region after they were suspended for a short time due to the weather event associated with Ex-Tropical Cyclone Debbie. Surveillance is continuing along the east coast of Queensland from the Sunshine Coast to Cairns. So far, eight samples, consisting …