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 […]
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 […]