Pound for pound, sooty grunter are as tough a freshwater sportfish as you’ll find anywhere. Aggressive lure takers and hard fighters in often skinny water, sooties are accessible to just about anyone fishing Far North Queensland, whethere from boat, kayak or bank.
The wet tropics rivers and estuaries are often thought of as wet season options, but long time local guide Kim Anderson dispells that myth!
Koombooloomba Dam isn’t even on the radar for most northern impoundment fishos….. But it should be! Riley Ward explains how to catch football sized sooty grunter and metery barramundi from this stunning dam system.
Mulgrave River Sooty Grunter and Jungle Perch are a brilliant skinny water, drift fishing experience. Brett Parks explains how he goes about it.
Fishing for sooty grunter in Lake Julius? Gun local angler Aubrey Cormack
Heading west of Townsville for a fish? Vinnie Versfeld reckons the sooty grunter fishing in those parts is awesome and in this episode he shares his tips for getting among this awesome sport fish.
The Connors River is a large inland river system west of Mackay and is a top notch destination for anyone keen to target sooty grunter on lures. In this episode Mackay fishing personality Andrew Trigg shares his tips for awesome sweetwater sport.
Eungella Dam holds some thumper sooty grunter, and who better to take us there than local angler and sooty fishing champ Dan Grech? In this episode Dan shares some awesome tips and runs through the lures that are the key to his success.
Andy Thomsen explains his strategy for finding, targeting and catching the fabulous sooty grunter of central and north Queensland’s freshwater rivers.
