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read stuff - Mar 11, 2008 0:44 - 0 Comments

Up, up & away - Adventure fishing

pure fishing australiaBy Michael Guest

Flying in choppers around Cape York may sound like pie in the sky stuff for the average fisho. But, as Michael Guest explains, the benefits are amazing and it’s not as expensive as it sounds.

More often than not these days I find myself getting as much out of the journey as the actual fishing. By that I mean enjoying the sights and sounds that influence and control the environment chosen for the day’s piscatorial challenges. Examples of this include casting soft plastics around the base of Balls Pyramid, near Lord Howe Island, or flicking tiny lures up an ice cold southern Tasmanian trout stream, complete with towering flanked sides of old growth forest. Time spent in such locations is special, and often you remember more about the place than you do about the fish you catch. When Steven Philp of Australian Angling suggested the idea of some helifishing in FNQ as an opportunity to explore some even more remote locations, well, sometimes you have just got to go with the flow. Heli-fishing is nothing new but I’ve always thought of it as being limited to the rich and infamous. I discovered that’s not totally true. Continue…


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news - Mar 8, 2008 23:41 - 1 Comment

Matt Fraser’s Nitro blog is live!

pure fishing australiaMatt Fraser, the designer of the fantastic Nitro jig head series has gone live with his blog. Upcoming features will include all sorts of Nitro info from design priciples to optimal usage and conditions for the whole range.

A small excerpt from his blog bio:

I’ve been a mad keen fisherman for as long as I can remember. I started fishing in the creeks around Dalby and Murgon, and on school holidays fished the beaches and estuaries of the Gold and Sunshine Coast. All my fishing was land based apart from the fishing I did in my kayak I bought when I was thirteen. Continue…


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read stuff - Mar 11, 2008 0:14 - 1 Comment

Rigging softies right

pure fishing australia By Mark Williams

My good mate and fellow Fisho contributor Mark Phillips is one of the blokes at the vanguard of the soft plastic revolution that’s swept the Aussie angling community in recent years. As a Berkley Pro Team member, he’s heavily involved in the field testing of the new soft plastics being imported into the country by Pure Fishing. Take it as read that he gets to play with lots of good stuff and catch heaps of great fish while he’s doing it.

During a recent early morning session throwing soft plastics around Lake Macquarie on the NSW Central Coast I had the chance to suss him out about the SP rigging methods that he and his regular fishing mate and fellow Fisho writer Michael Guest have used to deadly effect on a wide range of species. I wasn’t overly worried in brands or styles of soft plastics as they’ve all been plugged to death a million times – I was more interested in the specifics of the rigging systems they use to get the most out of these highly effective lures. I was really impressed with the attention to detail that Mark, or the “Captain” as he’s usually called, has gone to in rigging his SPs to achieve the best possible results in terms of lure action and sink rates. When chasing snapper offshore with SPs I was really surprised to hear that his standard jigging outfit is loaded up with eight pound FireLine. As he explained, by fishing as light a leader/mainline combination as possible he can use lighter jig heads to get his SPs down to where the fish are holding. The use of the lightest possible jig heads results in improved lure action and, consequently, more strikes. However, there are times when you’re fishing rough country where you just have to upgrade to a heavier leader/mainline combination. If not, all you end up doing is spending your day donating your jig collection to the fish gods. Continue…


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