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EIGHTY BUCKS A KILO FOR FLATHEAD FILLETS: When I posted this to Facebook, 80 replies and 14000 views. A few readers said it’s a Christmas rip off, but flathead fillets were seventy bucks a kilo at the same place two months ago: Seafood Ripoff We are lucky to be living not far from Sydney Harbour. A...

After a fantastic day on the wide reefs last Thursday, I couldn’t resist another run on Tuesday. The clincher being the ideal weather forecast. With the weather off Sydney being (mostly) absolute crap this winter, the forecasted one foot swell and sub 5 knot winds was too good to miss. Regular crew ...

At BCF last weekend and bumped into a fan of the Facebook page. We got to talking and, being a generous type, he told me about a special mark they’ve been fishing which held a stack of kingfish. In 140 metres of water which immediately got me interested because that’s the depth of Allmark, off Port ...

Son Chris called last week to ask if I could take a couple of his mates fishing. A few quick questions and I found out they hadn’t done a lot of fishing – and they’d never caught a kingfish. With good weather scheduled for Sunday, the four of us met at Roseville ramp around 7:00: The plan was to do...

My tired old ticker started thumping like a trip hammer when I spotted this pic on Facebook last week: Why? Because it’s November, and that’s a Queensland kingfish. November and December is the time of year that big kingfish travel south, close in along the NSW coast. They lose a lot of condition o...