How to Choose the Right Fishing Rod for Beginners
Choosing the right fishing rod can make all the difference for beginners. Learn what to look for and how to make the best choice with this guide.
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How to Choose the Right Fishing Rod for Beginners
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Choosing a baitcaster reelChoosing a baitcaster reel
When you purchase a baitcaster reel, there’s a bit of assumed knowledge involved. It’s assumed that you’ve mastered the spin reel, and have specific techniques that require a baitcaster in...
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Choosing a spin reelChoosing a spin reel
Finding a spin reel to suit your angling needs can seem like a daunting task for the simple fact that there are so many out there. Where once our reel...
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Slide baiting for beginnersSlide baiting for beginners
Slide baiting is one of those techniques that has only recently come to the fore in Australia, but has been employed elsewhere in the world for many years. As usual,...
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Live baiting kingfishLive baiting kingfish
Kingfish are brutes.In cooler waters where there are no GTs or doogtooth tuna, these fish do well to fill the gap of saltwater brutes. Kingfish have a fearsome reputation, as...
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Mud crab basicsMud crab basics
It doesn’t matter who you are or where you are, nothing says a gourmet seafood meal quite like fresh mud crabs. Often sold at high-end restaurants and worked into complex...
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Wild river bassinWild river bassin
Each spring, diehards from central Queensland to Gippsland in Victoria rub their hands together at the thought of ‘going bush’ and tangling with one of Australia’s greatest fishing icons. This...
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Soft plastics for breamSoft plastics for bream
Since their sudden rise in popularity in Australia over 20 years, soft plastics have been a staple for bream. Bream fans from tournament buffs to casual anglers trying their hand...
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Guide to pumping yabbiesGuide to pumping yabbies
On the east coast of Australia, there is bait that seems to outshine many others in terms of availability and attractiveness to fish, and that is the saltwater yabby, or...
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Spinning the surfSpinning the surf
To many, the surf zone may seem like the domain of bait anglers, but this is simply not true. Those who prefer to throw lures to catch their fish can...
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Squid on baitSquid on bait
Squid fishing with jigs, or egi, is a popular pastime, particularly in our southern states. Places like Port Phillip Bay, Western Port, Adelaide, Albany and Perth can see dozens of...
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Micro jigging and slow pitch jiggingMicro jigging and slow pitch jigging
The fishing world has always produced fads and fashions, especially as the tackle industry grows and promotes exciting techniques from overseas. Micro and slow pitch jigging are techniques that started...
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Soft plastics for flatheadSoft plastics for flathead
Tossing soft plastics for flathead - particularly dusky flathead - is nothing new, and for many it serves as their entry into the world of lure fishing. There are few...
