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NSW – Online map helps anglers access new fishing spots … so how good is this?

I started making soft plastics in gar fish colours about a year ago in response to identifying that a lot of the buffing of big barramundi that you hear at dusk and into the night is barra targeting garfish. I have now added gar fish inspired colouring to my articulated bugger range and have found that to be a great dawn and dusk time fishing colour combination.

One of the things I always promote is the importance of limiting the flies you carry in your fly boxes to just those flies that you are confident work for you, you understand when to use them and you know how to fish them.

We are very lucky around Gladstone in that we have a healthy population of Mangrove Jacks, Fingermark, Barred and Silver Grunter and Flathead in our local waters and all four of them are reseptive to both fly and lure presentations.

We don’t get many days in Central Queensland when we get a break from persistent winds but when they come around it’s nice to take advantage of then and target one of your favourite species on fly.

North American red-eared slider turtles are spreading in the Sydney region, threatening native turtle populations by competing for food and nesting sites. They are considered one of the world’s worst invasive species of waterways, breeding rapidly and carrying exotic diseases. They can spread salmonella bacteria to people, pets and other animals. Unlike native turtles they … Read more