Tackle News

Keeping the Carolyn Jane in storage at Port Stephens for the snapper season. Have never really targeted them in the past, but that was mainly because they weren’t as common as they are now. Up to Port on Tuesday night with all the snapper gear ready for the next day. First discovery, I left the boat...

At Port Stephens back in February for the Interclub Game Fishing Tournament. Most of the marlin were inshore and we fished for them with slow trolled or downrigged live baits. We covered a lot of country and found some interesting reefs and pinnacles. Check the predators stacked underneath this bait...

Unusual report this week! I’ll just explain why.A good friend of mine who I’ve fished with hundreds of times has been diagnosed with a serious medical challenge. One that’s going to require a lot of expensive care. He has a huge collection of fishing tackle and I’ve been asked by his family to sell ...

Regular readers know that, over the last month or so, we’ve been focusing our offshore fishing efforts on mahi/dolphin fish. The reasons being that one there’s plenty around, and two they’re the fastest growing thing on fins. So the little 60cm models we were catching in February have now grown to 8...

After a fantastic session on the dollies at Broken Bay FAD a week ago, Fitz and I decided to try for more of the same action on Friday. A bit concerned at the forecast cool water, and no current: So we decided to head south this time, to FADs 23 and 24. These are both double FADs so we would have f...