Tackle News

Big excitement here at Downrigger HQ after fishing personality Sammy Hitzke uploaded a video, showing just how deadly our Head Starts can be. Check this out: Trolling With Baits That wasn’t news to our clients. Here’s Bevan, with a nice Spanish: They work on kingfish, too: So what are they, you as...

Note: this story is written for our Sydney readersBut the same technique will work anywhere from the Gold Coast to western VictoriaYou will needa small plastic food containera small bucketour $155 blackfish comboa landing netStep onego to any sandy beach and half fill the bucket with wet sandI went ...

Down to Bayview boat ramp at Newport, early Sunday morning. To be greeted with 25 boats queuing to launch - due to the Berkeley bream competition: Crew - and plan - the same as the Sunday before. Alex, Xavier and Oscar, lure fishing for mahi around the trap buoys east of Terrigal. First stop, the V...

Out last Saturday on James Taylor’s big beautiful Black Watch 32. Once again the forecast was bad but with a great crew aboard I knew that, even if we didn’t find anything, we were sure to have a top time: When we cleared Broken Bay I wasn’t so confident. Nasty swell, and the wind steadily picking ...

6.00AM on Sunday morning and I’m picking up Oscar and Xavier at Turramurra railway station. All three of us keen as mustard to fish on James Taylors’ big, beautiful 32-foot Blackwatch, ‘Black Rat’: Only downside being the horrible forecast. Rain, and a 20 knot wind from the south. First stop, the V...