It doesn’t matter who you are or where you are, nothing says a gourmet seafood meal quite like fresh mud crabs. Often sold at high-end restaurants and worked into complex concoctions, it’s easy to forget that you can sample your own with a few inexpensive bits of kit!Â
Since their sudden rise in popularity in Australia over 20 years, soft plastics have been a staple for bream. Bream fans from tournament buffs to casual anglers trying their hand at luring regularly turn to these versatile little devices, particularly when other methods fail.Â
On the east coast of Australia, there is bait that seems to outshine many others in terms of availability and attractiveness to fish, and that is the saltwater yabby, or nipper. In the estuaries, they are a premier bait, however they can also be successful in the freshwater.
Squid fishing with jigs, or egi, is a popular pastime, particularly in our southern states. Places like Port Phillip Bay, Western Port, Adelaide, Albany and Perth can see dozens of squidders at a time congregating on public piers and rock walls all trying for a fresh feed of calamari.
Tossing soft plastics for flathead - particularly dusky flathead - is nothing new, and for many it serves as their entry into the world of lure fishing. There are few better ways to enjoy the calmness of the estuary while catching a few fish, either to eat or release for someone else to catch.Â
It’s well known that many freshwater predators including bass, Murray cod, barramundi, sooty grunter, jungle perch, saratoga and more eat frogs. It’s also well known that angers have been using frog imitation lures in order to fool these same species for years.