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How to buy a boat in 2022
Sponsored Content We say it here often: life is better with a boat. If you’re a keen angler and hiring a boat is getting a bit long in the tooth, you’ve likely thought about owning […]
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Flounder are masters of camouflage and perfect on the plate
• Brett Geddes (first published February 2022) I look at flounder as a stunning example of how a species of fish has adapted and evolved to perfectly suit its environment. Their camouflage is impeccable and […]
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When shallow isn’t shallow enough!
• Stephen Booth (first published January 2022) I’m lucky that I get to hang around really good anglers most of the time and this gives me the opportunity to learn new ways of doing old […]
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Lining up for a better leader – avoid losing big fish
• Brett Geddes (first published December 2021) All anglers have endured the frustration and despair of losing a fish to a busted leader. The culprit is typically assumed to be the snaggy, weedy or rock-strewn […]
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Hidden secrets of kayaking at Lang Lang
• by Tom Wilson (first published November 2021) Lang Lang, at the top end of Western Port Bay, is a rough diamond. A muddy and featureless expanse of water, it is not a fishing spot […]
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Getting your head around gear ratios
• by Steve ‘Starlo’ Starling (first published November 2021) Retrieve speeds can be really important in many styles of lure fishing, and those speeds are dictated by several factors, including your reel’s gear ratio. […]
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Learning about lures: bream bounty
• by Jamie Robley (first published November 2021) Four decades ago, when I first started offering lures to my local bream population, we called it ‘bream spinning’, because back then almost any form of cast […]
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Match the catch!
• by Steve ‘Starlo’ Starling (first published October 2021) We all know about ‘matching the hatch’, but what about ‘matching the catch’? Believe it or not, choosing a lure that imitates the fish you’re chasing […]
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The redclaw crayfish equation
• by Peter Jung (first published October 2021) As someone who enjoyed fishing for blueclaw crayfish or yabbies for the first 25 years of my life (generally with a piece of meat on a string […]
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The age-old art of yabbying
• by Robbie Alexander (first published October 2021) “What the hell is a yabby?” This is a question that I get asked a lot on the yabbying videos on my YouTube channel, usually by people […]
