Tackle News

Out last week in the small boat for a couple of sessions with Oscar: The Harbour is getting an absolute thrashing, this summer. Any bust up -however small - immediately attracts anything up to a dozen boats. Known kingfish spots like Seaforth and Clontarf are chock a block, every day. And the numbe...

Andrew Wily phoned just before Christmas to let me know he’d just bought a Takacat inflatable and would I like to join him for a bass trip the day after Boxing Day. Are the Kennedys gun shy?? We arrived at the upper Colo River Bridge around 8:30 AM on a beautiful morning. The boat very easy to pump ...

Early start on Friday morning, in James’ big, beautiful Blackwatch. Barely cleared the marina when we came upon this: The yacht that sunk at its mooring two weeks ago has been raised, and towed to a nearby police mooring - where it sunk again! Down to the Valiant wreck, east north-east of Barrenjoe...

I’ve told the story before. My eight year old son asking if I could take his school friend John - who was obsessed with fishing – out on the boat. Dad came too and, as soon as I saw the rods and reels they had brought along, I recommended using our outfits instead. Their reels in particular were hor...

Out on Monday morning in James T’s beautiful Black Watch 32. Three crew in total with the plan being, hit the 100 metre reefs for some kingfish jigging. With the weekend just past being horrible weather we hoped fish numbers might have built up. First stop FAD 17, off Terrigal: Water was a beautifu...