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NewsTracking snapper recruitment in Port Phillip
Port Phillip Bay is the most important spawning area for snapper in central and western Victoria and serves as a major source of replenishment for our snapper stocks. Victoria’s annual snapper recruitment surveys are one [...]
Proposed projects set to restrict access to our bays
There are some big issues brewing across our bays and inlets which will lead to concerning future access restrictions and result in broader impacts on our fisheries through the loss of key habitat and nursery [...]
Queensland Rainbow Trout Options
Nigel Webster has spent years fishing our Australian mainland trout regions. Living in Queensland means there is little opportunity to tangle with these fish but he has found that a northern address does not mean [...]
Melbourne’s River Run Reds
Better known as a challenging urban bream fishery, the lower Yarra River is home to both resident and seasonal populations of snapper. Brent Hodges explains. Winding its way through metropolitan Melbourne, the lower Yarra River [...]
Kings on Poppers & Stickbaits
There was a time when Scott Gray religiously chased kings with livebaits but nowadays he prefers hitting the surface with poppers and stickbaits! Pics by Scott Gray & Nick Murrell Each year by about early [...]
Advanced Beach Rigs
Basic beach rigs are the simplest of all terminal set-ups: running sinker, paternoster, and un-weighted casting rigs lead the list – but have a good look at these alternatives that Andrew McGovern has been using [...]







