Tackle News

SQUID. So often they are the key that opens the kingfish lock. And if anyone’s cracked the lock on hard to catch Harbour kingfish, it’s the lads I was fishing with every week – before coronavirus. Here’s a few of their catches over the last week. Note they mostly fish out of kayaks? Which can be ver...

So after discovering last week that my 21 foot centre console was 300 hours past its scheduled service, I’ve been restricted to the small boat. Which is not really a restriction, because I’m lovin’ it: The problem is, all the action’s been happening offshore, out of the little boat's range. Here’s ...

Down to Middle Head in Sydney Harbour this morning (Monday 13th April.) The primary mission being finding a groper - but took the blackfish gear, in case groper wouldn’t play ball. What got me motivated is finding a fantastic fishing channel on Youtube – Gido’s Fishing Adventures. He’s a groper spec...

Out last week in the 6.4m centre console and running 14 miles offshore to a set of private FADs. On the way out the Mercury 150HP missed a couple of times. Couldn’t remember when my last service was because it goes in regularly for various jobs and I have a Mercury on the 4.2m centre console too. Ca...

Big plans for Wednesday 18th March! The intention was, head for Brown’s Mountain on a friends boat. He’s a deep water fishing expert who tracks current speeds online – and goes, whenever it slows. But unfortunately it picked up again on Tuesday, meaning we had to cancel: All good! I had a couple of...