Many a freshwater angler will plan a road trip destination based on accessibility and available fishing. This isn’t always easy. Water levels, be it a drought or a flood, control access and fishing, hence these are overriding factors in any decision making. As I write there is a huge ongoing drought in eastern Australia. Forecasters […]
Australian Travelling Angler
"The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope." - John Buchan
Fishing The Great Ocean Road
Victoria’s Great Ocean Road is a Pandora’s Box of fishing adventure, ranging from rivers and estuary to surf and offshore. One of the State’s most popular tourist destinations, this 300-kilometre stretch of bitumen runs from Torquay to Warrnambool. On the first leg, from Torquay to Apollo Bay, the road clings to the coast, separating steep […]
Tropical Options
Head seawards from the tiny fishing village of Dungeness in North Queensland and pretty soon you’ll have to make a tough decision. Do you swing to starboard and see how you measure up to the piscatorial challenges of tangling with the tackle-munching monsters that live at the end of the 5.76km long Lucinda Sugar Loading Jetty […]
Carnarvon
A green oasis flanked on the east side by a yellow sand desert, and on the west by bluewater. On the Western Australian coast, Exmouth stands out as a bluewater game fishing destination, and fly fishing central for practitioners of the long wand seeking permit and bonefish. A few hundred kilometres south is the famous […]
The Mary River
The Top End’s wetlands are truly amazing and none more so then the Mary River National Park, and its jewel, Corroboree Billabong – a flood plain ox-bow lake. There is nothing like it anywhere else across the tropics and it rivals anything that the Kakadu National Park to the east has. The Rock Hole, upstream […]
