Category: Offshore fishing tips

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Ep.11 – What is Slow Pitch Jigging – Mastering the art!

June 15, 2023 Offshore fishing tips

Mastering the art! Slow pitch jigging secrets revealed during this short but intense session smashing coral trout on isolates in north Qld.

Ep. 9 Fishing isolated spots

June 1, 2023 Offshore fishing tips

Finding and fishing isolated spots requires perserverance and sounder skills but the results are worth it. Makes catching fresh fish easy.

Ep. 8 Hectic fishing session during relentless bad weather

May 18, 2023 Offshore fishing tips

Hectic fishing session during relentless bad weather! Double hookups, waves crashing over the deck and Karen driving.

Yellow zone alive with plate size coral trout.

Ep. 5: Alive with Coral Trout!

April 27, 2023 Offshore fishing tips

The yellow zone around Lizard Island was alive with coral trout! Possibly due in part to the immense green zone seeding adjacent areas.

Fishing off Cairns during Mood Swings repair

March 23, 2023 Offshore fishing tips

While the split water tank repair continues on Mood Swings, we decided to amuse ourselves fishing off Cairns. The tank repair was quite problematic (as ...

Large mouth nannygai fishing offshore Cairns

Fishing wide offshore Cairns

January 5, 2023 Offshore fishing tips

Today the goal was red emperor fishing wide offshore Cairns. In about 65 metres of water. Of course, we chose heatwave conditions to head far ...

Is the Barrier Reef Dying ?

May 24, 2022 Offshore fishing tips

Because we spend so much time fishing and snorkelling, we often get asked the question; Is the Barrier Reef dying? And while it is difficult ...

Spotted mackerel on plastics

November 11, 2021 Offshore fishing tips

Typically we use metal slices to catch spotted mackerel but in this video I catch spotted mackerel with plastics. Location of our fishing trip this ...

Coral Trout Bonanza for Peta’s Day Out.

August 12, 2021 Offshore fishing tips

We had a Coral Trout Bonanza off Mourilyan harbour while taking out our wonderful dog sitter Peta-Jane. Peta-Jane always looks after the house and sea ...