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The HookUp colouring in competition is back again in 2024 thanks to sponsors Gladstone Ports Corporation! The 2024 colouring in competition commences on Saturday, 30th March 2024 and will be open until 2pm on Friday, 3rd May 2024. Entries are open only to children who are aged 15 years or younger as at Friday, 3rd […]

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 […]

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 […]

The HookUp colouring in competition is back again in 2023 thanks to sponsors Gladstone Ports Corporation! The 2023 colouring in competition is now open until 2pm (E.S.T.) Friday, 28th April 2023. Entries are open only to children who are aged 15 years or younger as at 28th April 2023 with 1st & 2nd prizes awarded […]

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 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 […]

The Boyne Tannum HookUp Colouring In Competition is back in 2022 thanks to our amazing sponsors, Gladstone Ports Corporation! 🎨 The competition commences on Friday, 1st May 2022 and ends at 2pm EST Friday, 29th April 2022. 🎨 Entries are open only to children who are aged 15 years or younger at 29th April 2022 […]

What does Covid-19 mean for HookUp this year? At this stage, it will be Hookup as usual. There is no current requirement to vaccinate for an open air event. There will be no scanning in, no green tick to show; but we will be practicing social distancing and good hygiene practices 🧼 Of course such […]

Due to the limited stock of waverunners across Australia, the HookUp team have had to source a replacement for the senior personal watercraft prize. With the help of our sponsors, Yamaha Motor Australia, the replacement for the waverunner prize in 2022 will be a WR450F Yamaha Bike worth $16,499! This is a promotional prize and will […]

Thanks to our Sponsors Yamaha Motor Australia, HookUp are giving away a PW50 to one lucky junior ticket holder who registers for the 2021 Boyne Tannum HookUp BEFORE 11:59pm Thursday, March 31, 2022! *all junior ticket holders who have registered for the 2022 Boyne Tannum HookUp prior to today will automatically go into the draw. […]

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The kick off my first blog topic, I would like to make an announcement regarding the Major Prize for the 2022 Boyne Tannum HookUp. Our major prize for 2022 is the 630 SeaJay Vision, powered by a 200hp Yamaha outboard and fitted out with all Ray Marine electronics, worth over $95K, all register and ready […]