A family-oriented fly-fishing club covering the Port Macquarie Hastings region, NSW.
from Canberra Anglers Association
Mike Kirkpatrick is a Kiwi guide and movie maker. He recently posted a brief video on YouTube on how to handle fish. Excellent drone footage of fighting the fish. Pretty good demonstrations of best practices. The only admission was no mention of the benefits of barbless hooks. Read More »
from Epic Fly Rods, by Joe Mahler
At one time or another in every fly fisher’s life he will find himself quietly looking down at a broken rod. That sinking feeling. Maybe it was a favourite, or maybe it’s the night before a bonefish trip. Read More »
from Fly Fisher Magazine, Fall/Winter 2021
As fly fishing continues to grow in popularity, with enthusiasts targeting almost any species imaginable, it’s important to remember the principles of proper fish handling with a few tips and reminders. In this recent article from Flyfisher magazine, Sascha Clark Danylchuk provides an excellent overview of the “catch” in catch and release. Read More »
The Mulloway is the common name for Argyrosomus japonicus (previously called Argyrosomus hololepidotus), which are found in coastal waters from Rockhampton in Queensland to North West Cape, Western Australia (excluding Tasmania). In the tropical north it is replaced by the Black Jewfish Protonibea diacanthus. Read More »
There are a large number of gudgeon species native to Australia however by eliminating those found only in the tropics and those limited to altitudes below 700 metres (Dunmore is above 1300 metres) left us with only six species. The records of sightings in the “Atlas of Living Australia” decreased this number to two, being the the western carp gudgeon (Hypseleotris klunzingeri) and the flathead Gudgeon (Philypnodon grandiceps)
Both are fairly similar in general appearance, being small and laterally compressed with two separate and distinct dorsal fins and a truncate to slightly rounded tail. Read More »
I first came across the Blue Bastard in the Gulf of Carpenteria. It was a fairly common catch on bait and was then known as “Slatey Bream” because of their colour which was thought to be slightly bluer if they inhabited shallower water. Read More »
The Long-Toms belong to the needle fish family, the same family as garfish and flying fish.
They are long, slender fish that can skip over the water for long distances. The Stout Long-Tom is the member of the species found in our local estuaries. Read More »
The common coral trout (Plectropomus leopardus), is more correctly known as the leopard coral grouper, also leopard coral trout, blue-dotted coral grouper or spotted coral grouper. In Australia it is found at Beacon Island in Western Australia, the Ashmore and Cartier Islands in the Timor Sea, around the tropical north coast as far south as Sydney. Read More »
The titan triggerfish (Balistoides viridescens) is a large distinctive triggerfish with a dark heavily scaled body, a deep groove in front of each eye, a naked area around the lips, and about five rows of small forward-curving spines on either side of the caudal peduncle. Read More »
The existence of bonefish in Australia was probably first recognised when surf anglers fishing along the Queensland coast caught “oversized sand whiting” exceeding 2kg in weight. While superficially similar to sand whiting, bonefish are easy to tell apart in a variety of ways including only having one dorsal fin, a more robust body and a more underslung mouth. Read More »