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7 Offshore Fishing Tips Most Anglers Haven’t Figured Out

February 26, 2026 Offshore fishing tips

When you’re fishing offshore for demersals like big red emperor, large-mouth nannygai or other bottom-dwellers, sooner or later you meet the taxman .🦈 Your only ...

On hard fishing days it takes patience

What to do on hard fishing days

September 21, 2023 Offshore fishing tips

What to do on hard fishing days when the tiddlers won’t stop biting? We had this exact scenario slow pitch jigging around Lizard Island during ...

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Fishing Ninian Bay – Surprise Catch!

August 17, 2023 Offshore fishing tips

Fishing Ninian Bay Cape York is a remote area with great fishing potential. ACCESS VIA CAPE MELVILLE NATIONAL PARK The area can be reached by ...

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Exploring remote areas for Golden Snapper!

July 13, 2023 Fingermark or Golden Snapper

One of the joys of cruising the barrier reef is exploring remote areas for Golden Snapper. These supreme eating fish are found in estuaries, shoals ...

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Garmin GT51 is TOPS for finding Wonky Holes

July 6, 2023 Sounders / Fish Finders

Finding Wonky Holes using the Garmin GT51 dual pair side image transducer. Magic for catching big fish if your boat has a deep vee hull.

Slow pitch jigging results in this delicious coral trout

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.

Fishing isolated spots for coral trout

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.

Hectic fishing session in bad weather

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.

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One more cast… (too many)!

April 20, 2023 Travelling Australia

When leaving a hot fishing session, cries of “one more cast” abound. This time we had one more cast too many and got smashed by ...

Double hook up Nannygai fishing Cairns to Cooktown

Fishing Cairns to Cooktown

April 6, 2023 Finding Wonky Holes

We are finally heading north and fishing Cairns to Cooktown on the way! After leaving Cairns and steaming through the night (to about 2am), we ...

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 ...