Flathead may be fished for in a variety of ways. Many are taken on bottom-fished or drifted baits of small, live or dead "poddy" mulletor herring, pilchards, whitebait, sprats, anchovy and strips ofmullet,tailor,yellowtail, tuna orgarfish, as well as yabbies, nippers, marine worms, ...
These tuna can also be caught from drifting boats using dead or live bait such as redfish or nannygai along with berley. Yellowfin tuna are some of the most popular game fish in the world, and given their tremendous fight, size, and tastiness, it's easy to see why. Once you tie ...
is used for the capture of prawns (usually, greasyback, school andbanana prawns). Beam trawling involves towing of a trawl net with the mouth of the net held open by a rigid frame on skids. Most of the catch goes to the bait market, but banana prawns are sold for human consumption.Bu...
The Red Mullet is a prized sporting fish which will take small lures and also live bait. Fishing on the bottom is the way to go here as the Red Mullet is a bottom feeding species. They prefer a clean sandy bottom and are often caught by the Bream angler fishing clean ground. Read ...
Estuary and harbour anglers specifically targeting John dory mostly use handlines or light rods and small live baits, sometimes trimming the tail of the bait with scissors to slow it down. Over the deeper reefs, John dory take cut-flesh strips and whole small fish such as pilchards, as well...
The most productive techniques for taking bream in estuaries, bays and harbours are based around the use of light, sensitive tackle and live or fresh baits of marine worms, shellfish, yabbies (nippers), crabs, prawns or small bait fish species. Bream also succumb to an array of less conven...
They are taken on lures and live baits, and are usually found around floating objects such as wood, seaweed, fish buoys at sea. Frigate bird diving can also be an indication of the presence of Dolphinfish Mahi Mahi when there is debris in the water. Watch for flying fish. These fish ar...
It is a prized sporting fish which will take small lures and also live bait. Big schools can often be seen on the surface but are often virtually impossible to hook. At other times this fish will take lures and baits without any previous indication of its presence. The fight is a tough...