Tackle News

So when I open up the Instagram page, pics pour in. Blokes sitting on the front seat of hundred thousand dollar centre consoles, with a 40 kilo giant trevally balanced on their knees. Chaps fishing in bream or bass competitions, with every inch of their boat and clothes covered in tackle company log...

Back to Norfolk Island first week of December with some serious fishing planned. Once again tour guide Jay Barker – who I can’t recommend too highly – had put together a great schedule. But as always, it all depended on the weather. Loaded the gear into the rented Moke, dropped the suitcases at the ...

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...

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 ...

So Norfolk Island is out in the deep blue Pacific and exposed to wind from every direction. That’s okay! Because like all islands, there’s going to be a lee shore out of the wind somewhere. And there are jetties for boat launching on both the north and the south sides. This means that, if it’s blowi...