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 […]
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
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 […]
Wetting A Line In The Kimberleys
The carrot that dangles at the end of the line is barramundi. At least that’s how it is for many travelling anglers hitting the northern highways across the Top End. The tug is the drug, but it is a magical two-word phrase that keeps us going: Road Trip. And for those who have a yearning […]
