Surf fishing for Mulloway

Mulloway

I would chase Mulloway from the surf along the southern coast up to midway NSW during the warmer months, and from norther NSW upward during the cooler winter months. Mulloway hide in the deep gutters in the surf, and the best fishing times are early mornings and late afternoons over high water, from the new [...]

Trevally on plastics

Gulp soft plastics

It was a midwinter afternoon fishing trip, my friend and I decide to go for a look and then depending on the conditions decide what to have a fish for, thinking about either Trevally, Mulloway or Tailor in the Goldcoast seaway. It was sunny but very cold with a 25 kt southeasterly wind blowing. The [...]

Pencil Poppers

Pencil popper

The 3 on the left are small pencil poppers. Plenty of big Aussie sportfish are partial to a surface lure, but it’s not always the big splashy, active poppers that get the fish going nuts. Sometimes a more meandering, darting surface action is what the fish want thats where the good old pencil popper comes [...]

Bad day offshore

51 Cabo

We thought we would take the 51 Cabo out for a run and a little bit of offshore fishing today, just to make sure everything is working properly before we leave next week for Cairns. We left the Gold Coast marina at 7:30 am and headed out offshore to the 18 fathom line and started [...]

Offshore fishing with the Tides Moon Phases and Weather

Daybreak

There is no doubt that weather conditions, tides and moon phases can and do affect an offshore fishing trip. Tidal influences are most noticable the closer you are to shore, but offshore bite times are affected by the tidal influcences too,.IE. Marlin bite better at tide changes, also some reef fish respond better over a [...]

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