Archive for January, 2008

Last week we looked at why it is worth targeting your shallow reef systems in low light periods. Let’s now take a look at how to best fish these areas for good results. Tackle:Standard tackle for fishing the reef from my point of view, consists of a dropshot rod in the 6 to 10kg range …

I love hitting the water for a fish early in summer, well before the sun gets too hot and the holiday season boat traffic drives you nuts. Flathead are one of Australia’s number one summer target species, there usually plentiful in most coastal estuary systems at this time of the year and tend to be …

I wrote a piece for Fishing World last year on the benefits of fishing shallow reef systems of a night. I wrote the article following some extended good results fishing some shallow Sunshine Coast reef through the summer nights. Being that we are approaching the middle of summer, it seemed a good time to revisit …

Weather has been absolutely off the scale over Christmas which was heartbreaking for a lot of tourists to the area. I found Wallaby Lote Tuqiri hiding from the weather in a local cafe. He expressed his dissapointment at not being able to get out for a fish. After the holiday season, the weather subsided somewhat …

Lure casting in the shallows has always been a difficult proposition with weed being a major deterrent to the effective use of hard and soft bodied lures.Anything that sank or swam subsurface was always going to contact submerged or free floating weed and impede the action of the lure to a point that made the …