Tackle News

In the depths of a cold and windy winter, meaning a lot of our readers have found it difficult to get offshore. But for those who’ve found a weather window the rewards have been excellent. Here’s Jason Hotop with a big beautiful spawn run gemfish: Browns Mountain … most of them still smallish but s...

Wind rain and even snow across southern Australia, meaning it’s time to target winter species. Lots of our readers doing that successfully! Here’s Richie Inglis at Browns Mountain off Sydney, Monday 13th June: Hi Andy, the best blue eye from yesterday at Browns! Went 33kg on the lie detector and ta...

With shocking weather along the NSW coast recently, most reports have come from interstate. Nothing wrong with that! Geoff Wilson sends news of a near ten-to-one capture: Across the SA border at Port MacDonnell, Kevin McLoughlin and Marcus Pearson were hoping to make their mark in the tuna fishing ...

Early winter and the big news locally is the run of deepwater monsters around the continental shelf. Up until a couple of seasons ago a pro fisherman targeted blue eye trevalla at the Browns Mountain seamount, off Sydney. Commercial droplining extremely effective on this species. A friend who went o...

Autumn always a great time for fishing but this year has been absolute corker. Thanks to our generous readers we’ve got some fantastic pics and reports for you. Let’s get started. My eldest son’s girlfriend tells me her best friend went fishing up north. I asked if she could send through a pic or tw...