By Nick Wood Replacing hooks on lures is sometimes necessary to either increase your hook-up rate, strengthen hooks for certain species, or to make them easier to remove once a fish is boatside. In this case we replaced the hooks on the lure with Gamakatsu Tuned Assist (size 28) Two hooks are used back to…
By Jack Murphy With the daunting approach of winter looming and the undeniable arrival of the cold weather already upon us, it seemed obvious to rug-up, head to the closest wharf and torment the local blackfish populations. With pockets full of green Gamakatsu Pan Fish hooks, a few floats, split-shots and a bag full of…
By Andy Smith Recently I jumped at the chance to head to Warrnambool in south west Victoria to have a fish with good mates John Cahill and Dave O’Brien, targeting Southern Bluefin Tuna that had pushed relatively close to the coast for these waters. The tuna had become finicky in their feeding patterns, feeding on small whitebait and many…
Congratulations to Paul Malov and Mr Malov Snr who finished third in the recent Vic Bream Classic round held on the Glenelg River. This is their third top ten finish and sees them in firm contention for team of the year. The stand-out lure was the Bassday Kangoku Vi b C-174 (pictured).
The Mackerel are back on the north coast of NSW and the spotties are specials for a well presented live bait. We headed out off the north coast last week to chase a couple and considering we were targeting these fish, some classic poor communication resulted in us being quite unprepared. First we forgot the…
Day 5 was our last fishing day and we spent it at the small beach on the other side of the island filming some segments on new Atomic lures. The big boat managed to drift away in the current and I was excited at the prospect of seeing man walk on water, or at least a 100m…
Fishing up here is on the reef is not only exciting but the scenery is also spectacular. We passed many coral cays and fringing reefs on the run to fish a reef quite wide on a dropping tide. As we waited for the turn, Atomic Seekers up to half ounce and Plazos in the 4 inch…
Our first day of solid fishing dawned and first up we decided to head out to chase GTs on poppers rigged with Gamakatsu Treble GT 24′s. Throwing large lures along reef edges is taxing but the Samurai Pop 10 and 12′s handled this task with long casts allowing us to get tight in to the…
We have headed up to Cape York on a annual tackle testing trip with CY Charters (https://www.cyfishingcharters.com.au/) and we arrived at midday on Day 1. No boat fishing today meant quickly preparing our tackle snd we headed off around the island to flick some small diving and surface lures for resident species using our new…
Congratulations to Paul Malov and Alex Franchuk competing as team Gamakatsu/Atomic Last weekend in the second round of the Vic Bream Classic series held at Metung. The weather leading in to the tournament was wet to say the least, with flooding of all the rivers which flow in to Gippsland Lakes leaving expectations low. Friday’s…