Tackle News

Upbeat email from Gold Coast mackerel master Dan Wrigley received this week: The Headstart trolling lures are amazing, I’ve had 100% hookup rate straight out of the packet, I use these to troll slimie mackerel at about 3-4 knots and I prefer these over the live bait itself, the action is incredible...

Down to Victoria last weekend with top bloke and good friend Mike Fitzgerald. Mission - to pick up his new Quintrex 420 from Leigh Marine in Wodonga: Then a couple of days testing the boat, fishing, and deer hunting planned. Free and easy trip with the only rule being, buy Gaytimes every time we st...

Out from Broken Bay on Sunday morning in James’ beautiful Black Rat. The morning kicked off with a promising sign – a full arc rainbow, as we headed east from Barrenjoey Head: Out to the 140 metre mark where we caught a couple of marlin last week. Things had changed. The bait schools down deep had ...

Delighted to be invited by skipper/owner James Taylor for a run on his beautiful ‘Black Rat’, this week: James had a plan: The nSyd FAD is on the zero line, the red spot to the SE is the bait station. First stop NSyd FAD me thinks As usual, we would be fishing some lever drags, but mostly Penn Sen...

Jigging for kingfish off Sydney is less about blindly dropping a heavy lure and more about putting the right jig through the right patch of water at the right time. Offshore reefs can cover a large area, but the fish may be stacked on one small pinnacle or suspended in a narrow depth band. Find that...