In a world premiere, Honda Marine has unveiled its first V8 outboard engine, the BF350, at the Genoa International Boat Show. Through a range of outstanding technological features, the BF350 will redefine high-performance premium outboard marine engines, offering the most formidable power yet from a Honda outboard engine. Honda’s renowned engineering excellence will ensure a [...]

Mercury Marine first-year apprentice Joachim Lopez-Valoa has won the School-based Apprentice or Trainee of the Year award at the 69th Victorian Training Awards, earning the distinction of Victoria’s top school-based apprentice for 2023. The 18-year-old is currently pursuing a Certificate III in Marine Mechanical Technologies and becomes the first Mercury school-based apprentice to win this [...]

The future of black bream fishing in the iconic Gippsland Lakes is being bolstered for future generations with a bag limit change for the popular recreational species. As part of ongoing work to return the lakes to a recreational fishing mecca through the Gippsland Lakes Recreational Fishery Plan, a 2023 survey of fishers showed clear [...]

It’s official! One lucky angler will walk away with $1 million in Season 9 of NT’s Million Dollar Fish competition. Fishing in the Northern Territory’s pristine waters is about to get more exciting than ever, with a lucky angler guaranteed to win a whopping one million dollars in the upcoming Season 9 of Million Dollar [...]

  MERCURY MARINE LAUNCHES AVATOR™ 20E AND 35E ELECTRIC OUTBOARDS Mercury Marine today introduced the Avator™ 20e and 35e electric propulsion systems. The new models join Mercury’s electric propulsion lineup alongside the award-winning Avator 7.5e outboard, which launched in January at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) – one of the largest tech events in the [...]

Mulloway are an important and iconic species for NSW commercial, recreational and Aboriginal cultural fishers, however stocks in NSW are currently classified as ‘depleted’. Recovering Mulloway stocks in NSW is a key priority for NSW DPI Fisheries. Despite a range of fishing arrangements being implemented in the past, given the reported data, DPI Fisheries managers [...]

Returns to the Barra Lodge in 2023 After a break of 8 years the Arnhem Land Fly Week is back. The Arnhem Land  Barra Lodge will host Arnhem Land Fly Week from 9 - 15 November 2023, during the Build-up fishing season. Join our talented Barra Lodge guiding team for 5 days of fly fishing [...]

Assessment of recreational fishing in NSW is conducted via the Recreational Fisheries Monitoring Program (RFMP), which undertakes surveys of recreational fishers every 2 years via a telephone-diary survey, as well as monitoring the NSW charter boat fleet. The 2023-24 telephone-diary survey is about to commence, and aims to find out who goes fishing, how often, where they fish and [...]

Thousands of freshwater Catfish have been released into waterways in the Edward Wakool region of south-western NSW to re-establish locally extinct populations of this culturally and recreationally important native species. The Edward-Wakool Angling Association (EWAA) was awarded a $10,000 grant from the Recreational Fishing Trust to work with key partners to stock Catfish in local [...]

With favourable environmental conditions and fantastic inshore fishing opportunities up and down the coast, the warmer months gave many boats and anglers the opportunity to target, catch and tag juvenile Black Marlin. With large numbers of fish being tagged, there was also a significant number of recaptures reported. So far 40 Black Marlin recaptures have been reported for the 2022/23 season [...]