Tackle News

What weight jig should you use? Start with the lightest jig that will reliably reach the fish and let you maintain contact with it. Then adjust for current, wind, boat drift, braid diameter, jig shape and how tightly the fish are holding to the structure. That sounds simple, but one day at Texas Re...

Offshore on Saturday morning with a super keen young crew: Oscar, Myles and Xavier. These guys eat drink and breathe fishing, and their enthusiasm is contagious. First stop Long Reef where we had heard from a contact the kingfish were firing: They were! But nothing big, or even legal. And the bite ...

I always look forward to hairtail season because A. the best spot is Cowan Creek, just down the road from our place; And B, we’ve developed some special techniques which make them even more exciting to catch: So this week, when I heard they were back in town, I cleared the deck for a couple of eve...

Out to Brown’s Mountain on Sunday in James Taylor’s beautiful 32 Black Watch: The plan was to test our new light electric reel combo, fishing 450 metres deep: When we arrived conditions were just about perfect. Wind and current both light and manageable. Because the reel is spooled with 30 pound b...

Regular readers of these pages know how much our crew enjoys deep dropping, at Brown’s Mountain. We’ve had some fantastic sessions out there: BLUE EYE TREVALLA For many years we’ve specialised in electric reels and deep drop rods, because manually winding up 20 kilo blue eye - or two 8 kilo gemfish ...