A certain time of year a proportion of the Derwent River’s brown trout population migrates to the estuary to hammer the schools of migrating baitfish moving up from the sea. Hobart’s Plinio Taurian explains how we can get in on the action and enjoy some awesome sport on Hobarts doorstep.
For our northern anglers queenfish are fast, often aggressive, aerial and usually reliable lure fishing targets, so what’s not to like? Karratha angler Charles Kretzmann takes us in search of queenfish in his home waters.
The blue nosed threadfin, or blue salmon. is a northern sportfish that is often overlooked by anglers focused on more iconic species. But the species is prevalent, makes for exciting shallow water sight fishing and is a great table fish to boot. Mark Bantich explains how he targets them in Broome, Western Australia.
The Hawkesbury River system is large and holds plenty of jewfish for those who know how to chase them. In this episode of ALF, Dan Selby downloads his tips for getting amongst the jewfish action!
The Gold Coast is littered with land-based options for targeting species such as GT’s, queenfish and mangrove jack – even milkfish and barracuda are on offer if you know where to look. Local resident Andy Sparnon from Coast Fish TV gives us some pointers for getting started in this incredible fishery.
In this episode Mackay personality Luke Galea encourages us to leave the boat at home, pull on the boots and head off in search of sweetwater opportunities. Winter barra, mangrove jack, sooty grunter and jungle perch are the targets!
John Costello is a well known Gold Coast fishing personality who has fished the area for many years. Over the past 12 months he’s started to perfect the art of extra large flathead on surface lures and in this episode explains how he goes about it.
Gun Rockhampton angler Sam Gibson explains how to catch metre barramundi in the pressured, clear water, sandy bottomed waters of his local area. Great insights into the techniques that take fish where most anglers only see them on the sounder!
Brad “Smithy” Smith is a long-time Gold Coast fishing guide with 25 years experience targeting jewfish on lures in the estuaries of northern NSW and southern Queensland. In this episode Smithy share two little know but deadly techniques he’s developed for targeting this awesome sport fish.
