What Weight Jig Should I Use? A Practical Jig Weight Guide
Not sure what weight jig to use? This practical guide explains how depth, current, drift and line diameter affect jig selection, including our real-world 100g vs 250g test at Sydney's Texas Reef.
KINGIE TOWN
Offshore on Saturday morning with a super keen young crew: Oscar, Myles and Xavier. These guys eat drink and breathe fishing, and their enthusiasm is contagious. First stop Long Reef where we had heard from a contact the…
Fangs for the Memories
I always look forward to hairtail season because A. the best spot is Cowan Creek, just down the road from our place;
Red Dragon Ticks The Boxes
Out to Brown’s Mountain on Sunday in James Taylor’s beautiful 32 Black Watch:
Deep Jigging the Electric Way
Regular readers of these pages know how much our crew enjoys deep dropping, at Brown’s Mountain. We’ve had some fantastic sessions out there:
Light equals Squid equals Kingfish
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…
Downriggers are Deadly
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:
Backup Blackies
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…
Korona Kingies
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…
Self Isolating - Offshore
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…
Spraypoppin'
So I’m guessing most of our readers would be familiar with commercial tuna poling? Fishermen stand side-by-side on the deck and haul tuna out of the water using bamboo poles - and a short line directly off the rod tip to…
