Travelling anglers heading east from Melbourne will find some of southern Australia’s best, and most accessible fishing, in East Gippsland. Between the Gippsland Lakes Region in the south to the New South Wales border, there are diverse and bountiful opportunities. When the bream are running in the Gippsland Lakes, it can be wall to wall […]
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 State Parks
Travelling anglers are afflicted by a state of mind that looks at road maps and sees only watercourses. These anglers prefer to spend more time on, or by, water than on the road. Every year southern anglers make the trek north to fish the tropical Top End, where most spend long periods fishing the same […]
Cape York’s Lower West Coast
ALCOHOL NO alcohol is allowed on DOGIT Land (Deed of Grant in Trust). All Indigenous communities on the Cape have alcohol restrictions. Pormpuraaw has a football club that is open during the evening on weekdays. Only six cans of mid-strength are served. Visitors must be signed in by a member. Police do spot road checks […]
Ceduna to Yalata
South Australia is Australia’s best-kept fishing secret Nowhere on this vast continent offers the consistent quality and quantity of temperate Australian species. If it’s big King George whiting you seek, then Kangaroo Island and Marion Bay at the foot of the Yorke Peninsula, offer consistent catches of 60cm plus fish. In Spencer Gulf, ports like […]
West Coast Haven
If fishing spots were shares, Exmouth on the North West Cape in Western Australia would be classed a blue chip investment. Like a good hamburger, it comes with the lot, and this is despite hosting one of Australia’s most extensive Marine Parks, Ningaloo Reef. Over the past decade or so, Exmouth has become established as […]