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…
By Dave McKenzie Bream are an incredible species to target and there are more ways than you can imagine to catch them. Winter time the bite is generally deep, and thus makes fishing with hardbodies and surface lures a less predictable method. As we finally emerge from winter, and begin seeing some warm summer-like days,…
By Paul Malov The weekend of the 13 & 14th of October saw 70 teams and 46 kayakers descend on Mallacoota, for the final qualifying round of the Victorian Bream Classics. We had a strong pre-fish 5 weeks prior to the event and decided to rest a number of our prime spots, where we had…
Team Gamakatsu/Atomic finished the last round of the Vic Bream Classics in style with a first place at the Cranka East Gippsland Round held at Mallacoota. In a few days, the guys will let us all know how they did it with a detailed look at the techniques that got them there. In the meantime…
Time is running out for you to put your input to the NSW Government on the management of mulloway in this state. Years of overfishing have brought this iconic sportfish to the brink. We have until October 16 to put things right. Go to https://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/fisheries/recreational/saltwater/sw-species/mulloway/your-say and take action! One of the key changes we can…