Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus commerson), also known as Narrow-barred mackerel, are a highly prized sport fish on light tackle. Spaniards are a pelagic species that frequent reef habitats between deeper oceanic waters and the mainland. Fast swimmers and predatory in nature, they make scorching high-speed runs when hooked and often display impressive aerobatics. Read More »

Smith’s Lake at the Frothy Coffee sandbar.

Forty minutes with the bread flies for nothing. When the mullet would chase but not eat the bread flies, regardless of size, floating or sinking, I went for this.

Thirty minutes with the “Unnamed” – nineteen landed and multiple “quick releases”. Read More »

Welcome to what is sadly our last Edition as editors of Flycast.

After retirement in 2005, we travelled down the East Coast from Port Douglas to Mallacoota before finally settling in Camden Haven as our “forever home” twelve years ago. At that time we thought we would never be grandparents but that changed a little over three years ago with the arrival of our distant Junior member Zoey. Read More »