Tackle News

Headed out on Wednesday to test some game changing new tackle. Kicked off with a solo boat launch at Roseville ramp: Over to Watsons Bay to pick up crew member Greg Stevenson. Around South Head and out to the famous Peak – a series of bumps and pinnacles running north to south in around 70 metres, ...

Springtime is wind time, and wind is no friend to the angler. Check this out? Note that the strongest winds are focused around both weekends: Luckily the salmon have arrived in Sydney Harbour. Meaning that if it got too windy to head offshore, we had a good backup option: Over the last couple of y...

From a few years ago but only discovered last month. Keen Sydney fisho and expert photographer James Ibrahim recorded his impressions of a typical day offshore. No hype, no BS, and so good that I’ve left it exactly as he wrote it. Just added links to the tackle he mentions, in the story. Hoping you ...

Downrigging mackerel, trolling for tuna, jigging kingfish are guaranteed to make our clients happy. But what happens when the weather is so bad you can’t get offshore?   We’ve had a shocking year for weather. A friend who was out on a Sydney charter boat recently told me the skipper had mentioned t...

If a few years ago someone had said the words ‘bent butt rod’ to me interest levels would have been zero. Because the only ones I was familiar with were those used for heavy game fishing often from a chair mounted in the boat. But aware of the revolution in fishing tackle over the last ten years – w...