Newsletter
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Irukandji Sicario - Tom Crittenden
In 2023, it’s fair to say that the market is flooded with soft plastics of all shapes and sizes… Paddle-tail styles account for a significant proportion of this, and rightly so… Time and time again, they have proven themselves to be one of the most versatile and dominant profiles on a range of predatory species in both salt and freshwater environments. -
Deepwater Winter Snapper
If you ask any avid anglers what their preferred winter target is a lot of them will single out the glorious snapper. This highly sought after species is a prime candidate for most anglers due to their accessibility for land based and small boat owners, with amazing fighting capabilities on the right gear. Winter provides the slower trickle of current to fish and (usually) calmer weather days to target these ‘reds’ in the deep – a depth which I use significantly different tactic to targeting them in the shallows. I classify ‘deepwater’ anything from 50m to 100m +.
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DropCast Trip 2022
Large dogtooth Tuna have been my biggest adversary for years, the most frustrating sport fish I have encountered on jigging tackle. They are a true test of patience, luck and of course quality tackle preparation! Numerous large dogtooth captures are a real rarity, recently we were lucky enough to experience some world class dogtooth jigging with DropCast operated by Andrea Traverso in Vanuatu.
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Wild Weipa!
For ‘southerners’ like myself, there’s nothing quite like a fishing trip to Northern Australia…
This part of the country is synonymous with big, lure-hungry fish, and lots of them! Throughout my relatively short life, I’ve been fortunate enough to visit a number of different fishing destinations in Northern Australia. From my travels, there’s one place that has a real hold on me… Weipa!
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Product Review: Little Jack Metal Adict
I’ve always had a fascination with high quality lures from Japan, they are the undisputed leaders of the tackle industry in my eyes. You need only look at the tackle world today to see who dominates in terms of looks, feel and revolutionary technology that’s constantly evolving year after year that consistently amazes us every year.
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The Kimberley: A Sportfisherman's Paradise
As the myriad of bays, islands and river systems glistened below, the first glimpse of our home to be, the MV Cannon came into view, a white speck in an otherwise harsh and wild expanse of greens, blues, browns, greys and reds of mind boggling shades. For me it was a place I knew well and loved, having worked onboard the old girl for a number of years, but having never flown in on the flying boat, the aerial view was something in and of itself. -
Winter Jewies!
As we enter the depths of winter, bitterly cold westerly winds have arrived with a vengeance, forcing many anglers to seek refuge indoors. Despite this, the rewards are there for those willing to brave the cooler conditions.
The winter months are typically one of the best times to target jewies on lures in the local estuaries. Whilst many things contribute to success in this game, focusing your efforts on three key factors will hold you in good stead.
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Fly fishing: an introduction.
Have you ever thought of taking up flyfishing? Perhaps you thought it was too hard? Too
expensive? Too complicated? Too mysterious? Or maybe you thought it just made catching
fish too hard? The answer to almost every flyfishing question is that “it depends”. In the
case of most of these statements, they are not true. -
Going Nuts for Squirrels
While soft plastic fishing has really gained its traction in estuary and sweet-water lure fishing scenarios (and deservedly so!), I often feel that the humble hard bodied diver gets overlooked all too often when we delve into the arsenal of lures we tend to carry with us on a fishing trip these days. But lately, and […] -
Get out there!
With the recent pandemonium, and worldwide reshuffling that all of us have had to do due to this virus, we look forward, towards the light gleaming through the tunnels exit, and begin to ask the question… Where shall we go next? -
Everything eats a prawn!
That’s right, just about everything will eat a prawn… Including me! All jokes aside, prawns are a crucial food source for many of the fish that inhabit our estuaries. From the humble bream and flathead right up to the mighty mulloway and the yellowtail kingfish, prawns are on the menu at one time or another! With this in mind, one may logically conclude that tying on a prawn imitation isn’t such a bad idea… -
NaF Lead Free Sinkers
Currently in the world there is immense pressure to recognise and adopt sustainable new technologies in order to help reduce our impact on the environment.
The fishing tackle industry, strangely enough, is seemingly well behind the eight-ball in this field, with a high dependance on single use plastic in its packaging and the make up of its products, as well as many products containing lead, which is widely know as something we as humans try to avoid wherever possible.
