Gamakatsu’s Summer Of Giveaways has started. To enter simply purchase any Gamakatsu products between December 15 2012 and February 28th 2013, fill in your details on the entry from at www.gamakatsu.com.au/competitions Attach your receipt and you are in with a chance to win a weekly $200 prize pack, or the grand final prize pool valued…
By Dave McKenzie I set myself a target this summer to get a marlin from my 5.1m edgewater trailer boat. I’ve never really had any interest in marlin fishing, mainly because I associated it with charter boats, heavy gear, no sight of land and many hours between hits. South East Qld is spoilt with opportunities…
By Dean Silvester Lake St Clair was the venue for the recent Bass Pro grand final and with plenty of pre fishing we thought we had the lures to win. We were almost right, well one of us was, the Grand Final was won by a good friend of mine Mark Lennox. Mark was fishing…
By Luke Galea The legendary Barramundi would have to be one of the iconic poster fish of Northern Queensland and I am sure that there would not be too many die-hard anglers out there who could honestly, hand on heart, say that these brutes are not on their ‘fish I want to catch’ lists. These…
By Dave McKenzie We’ve all experienced days where bream will tap our hard bodies and for some reason, continually fail to hook up. Tentative bites can be extremely frustrating and leave you wondering if your hooks are painted on. When bream fishing with cranks, I like to remove the back hook, and replace this with…
This new pattern from Gamakatsu is an Octopus pattern with a difference. Built on ultra strong 4x steel, the Inline Octopus features a straight eye as opposed to the turned eye used on the Octopus hook. The hook has been specifically designed for use with big baits on offshore reefs and will stand up to…
By Joey Allan The Mangrove Jack was actually caught at the end of last Summer but give an indication of the quality of fish that can be caught at this time of year. We were actually targeting Jew fish using live bait and were fishing the North Wall of the Gold Coast Seaway. We had…
By Tom Deer I love snapper. They are a ball to catch on bait and on lures, so it was exciting to head offshore with some bait to relive the old years where bait fishing was the go-to technique for these fish. I got to my first spot a little late and finding the tide…
By Tom Deer With the crystal clear water of late I knew that the fishing was going to be tough and this called for a finesse approach on the local bream population. Sometimes when conditions are tough, with flightly fish, I like to slow down my sink rate to keep the lure in the strike…
By Jack Murphy One of the smallest hooks in my tackle box is by far the most deadly – the Gamakatsu Long Shank. A recent, icy-cold adventure down to Melbourne spurred on a King George whiting session. Just like their northern brothers, (the sand whiting) these fish have long, slender bodies with small, soft mouths…