Blue Salmon and King Salmon are new species for the Catch & Release section of this years Boyne Tannum Hook Up. Both are a fantastic table and sport fish with big tails and plenty of vigor and would pull a similar sized salt water Barramundi backwards. They also have a well-earned reputation of being finicky […]
FINGERMARK
One of the most popular target species of fish, not only in Australia but throughout the world are the Lutjanids and we are lucky enough to have two of the family, Fingermark (L.johnii) and Mangrove Jack (L.argentimaculatus), endemic to our coastal and estuary waters in Central Queensland. Whilst very closely related they are still quite […]
BREAM
By the time the Boyne Tannum Hook Up comes around there should be plenty of bream starting to show up in our estuary waters. That includes both Yellow Fin Bream and Pikey Bream. This is the first time that Pikey Bream have been included as a qualifying species for the Boyne Tannum Hook Up. That […]
Flathead
Flathead are one of the easier species of estuary fish to catch. Whilst they are more prolific in the warmer months there are still plenty around at Hook Up Time. Whilst they love live baits such as prawns, small fish, and crabs they are also very comfortable targeting artificial baits such soft plastics, artificial flies […]
Flathead – fly selection
When targeting dusky and barred Gladstone flathead my preference is to use flies size #2/0 and #3/0 flies. Slightly translucent flies in natural colours work best for clear water and brighter flies in solid colours will attract more attention in discoloured water. Given that flathead eat mainly prawns and shrimp, small fish and to a […]
Flies suggestions for bream
Flies catch more fly fishers than fish … have a small selection of flies you have confidence in. In clear water I like to use natural coloured flies that have the same form and function as the yellowfin bream’s natural food and in coloured water I’m happy with brighter flies. Yellofin bream will feed from […]
Flies on line
For many years I have been buying some of my fly tying materials from a company called BWC Flies. They have been fantastic in helping me source material etc. Recently Brett sent me and email telling me “what has been happening here at the BWC headquarters.” I am chuffed to see that BWC Flies have […]
Moving forward with your fly tying and fly fishing
This Articulated Swimmer fly, when dressed in Qantas colours is like candy for Rock Cod. Have a look at the recipe here it’s relatively easy to tie and it’s caught everything from Barra to Bream. If you’re having trouble getting started with your fly fishing journey in CQ, or just need a little more practice […]
Articulated Woolly Bugger fly
My articulated bugger fly has its origins in the hundreds of woolly bugger and woolly bugger variants that I have tied and fished with in my saltwater and freshwater fly fishing in CQ in the last 10 years or my trout fishing exploits including World, Commonwealth, Oceania and National Championships, over the last 30 years. […]
Yellowfin bream on fly
Yellowfin bream have silver to bronze bodies and the lower fins are yellow to white. Yellowfin bream Yellowfin bream are well dispersed along our coast line from Townsville to Victoria and they are predominantly found in estuary systems and in close coastal waters including harbours and rocky reefs and coastal saline lakes. The size of […]
New fly categories introduced for 2020 BTHU
For the 2020 Boyne Tannum HookUp as well as there being the “GT Fly Fishing Category” that was introduced in 2019 there will also be new separate fly fishing categories for both seniors and juniors for flathead, yellowfin bream, whiting, grunter, fingermark and barramundi. If you want to enter fish into these new fly fishing […]
Flathead on fly
Flathead are definitely one of the easier species of estuary fish to catch on fly. They will respond to a wide range of traditional and specialist flies and you will catch them as a by catch when your fishing small flies (from a flathead’s perspective) to species such as yellowfin bream and whiting and relatively […]