Tucked away in the south eastern corner of South Australia and mainly running through neighbouring Victoria is the magical Glenelg River – a place that Simon Cardone can’t recommend highly enough. My first trip to the Glenelg River was back in 2009. I had wanted to go there ever since I read about it being [...]
This relatively new and exciting method could be the trick to unlocking more reds this spring. Scott Gray shares his top tips to inspire you to give microjigging a go. Microjigging for snapper is fast becoming popular with snapper anglers across the southern half of the country and it’s easy to see why being that [...]
Like you, the VFA remain concerned about the impact of major flooding on our native fisheries particularly in the lower reaches of river systems in northern Victoria. In the last week, we have seen significant fish deaths (predominately carp and native fish) in the Little Murray River, Broken Creek, Boosey Creek, Gunbower Creek, Loddon River, [...]
Seen in the latest 'Sculpture by the Sea' exhibition, this sculpture of a giant fish hook by Juan Pablo Pinto. The sculptures are on show on the Bondi to Tamarama Beach coastal walk until 7 November 2022.
NSW Labor has dumped its shadow agriculture minister Mick Veitch from the party's Upper House ticket for the NSW 2023 elections. At NSW Labor's annual conference on 15-16 October he was replaced by Cameron Murphy, who is a past head of the NSW Council of Civil Liberties. Mick Veitch has been a valuable adviser to [...]
DPI Fisheries and a number of fishing clubs and organisations have also been hosting their own events to celebrate fishing in their local communities. This year there were 35 fishing packages and 24 grants approved out of the NSW Recreational Fishing Trust funds for fishing clubs and organisations to run events around NSW over the [...]
On Wednesday September 22, Fisheries Officers received a report of a spearfisher who had allegedly taken a Wobbegong Shark from the waters off Kianinny Bay, near Tathra. The bag limit for recreational fishers, including spearfishers, for Wobbegong Sharks in NSW is zero. The report from a member of the public contained some great images, including [...]
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet says he is fast tracking raising Sydney's Warragamba Dam wall, announcing on 17 October that he will give the $1.6 billion project “state significant” status and will go ahead, even if the Federal government won't pay half of the cost. An independent inquiry into floods earlier in 2022 did not recommend [...]
The Bureau of Meteorology has asked the media to stop calling them the "BOM" and to use its full name in the first instance and "the Bureau" in subsequent references. It isn't clear whether the Bureau also wants members of the public to stop referring to the agency as "BOM". Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek [...]
Do you catch pearl perch and bluespotted sand flathead? Donate your frames to the Research Angler Program (RAP) (along with your mulloway, snapper, kingfish, dusky flathead, Spanish and spotted mackerel frames). As with all of the fish collected as part of the RAP, Fisheries is interested in learning more about the age structure and reproduction of [...]
