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read stuff - Apr 3, 2008 12:34 - 3 Comments

Pop goes the weasel

pure fishing australiaBy Stephen Booth

It’s no secret that I love surface fishing. I love it so much I’ve even been known to hold out with a surface lure while others are catching fish on soft plastics in deeper waters.

Over the last three years I’ve worked my way through plenty of surface lures and a few have come up on top for me, and one of those is the Berkley Frenzy 7cm Popper.

What I like about it

This popper has a few things going for it that really appeal to me. Firstly they are dirt cheap. You often can find these lures floating around tackle stores for less than $10 and that is fantastic for a lure that catches plenty of fish. Continue…


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news - May 27, 2009 15:38 - 0 Comments

Freshwater Flats Fishing By Neil Schultz.

 The term “flats fishing” generally conjures images of tropical beaches and chrome hued saltwater sportfish.  Essentially that description is fairly accurate although marine flats fishing is of course not limited to the tropics.  It’s the increased clarity of tropical waters that make them more flats fishing friendly, enhancing the sight fishing aspect of the flats experience.
 Barra like this would make any angler happy. Graham landed this one, hooked in just 1m of water with the trusty CA1156 Ugly Stik.
Barra like this would make any angler happy.  Graham landed this one, hooked in just 1m of water with the trusty CA1156 Ugly Stik.


It may surprise many barra anglers to hear that there are also flats fishing opportunities in freshwater lakes. This is not classic flats angling.  It doesn’t involve sight fishing except on the rarest occasion but is does occur on shallow expanses of water. The scenario is similar on several of Queensland’s outstanding stocked barra lakes.  Much impoundment barra fishing involves searching creek channels, substantial snags or points in main lake basins.  When circumstances are favourable we can also fish for these big barra in water less than two metres in depth in areas often overlooked by anglers.
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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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