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Making your own Saltwater Flasher Flies DIY - Part 3 (Wings)

How to make the wings on your flies......

Making your own Saltwater Flasher Flies DIY - Part 2

A really simple and quick flasher-fly to make......

Making your own Saltwater Flasher Flies DIY - Part 1

Learning to make your own fishing flies can be quite rewarding especially when they actually work.. We have put together a few basic steps on a couple of different ways of making them.. Enjoy! Here is one way of tying a basic flasher-fly:...

Casting the Distance

Increasing your distance with your cast can be very useful for getting into the right channel or hole where the bigger fish are.  We've designed our rigs to enable you to achieve those extra few metres by making them more streamlined.  Rigs with only a single trace with a strip bait fly much better than double or triple traced rigs with big chunks of bait attached. Rigs with bait clips on them fly even better with the whole rig set-up being very aerodynamic.  The shape of the sink...

IS NIGHT FISHING BETTER THAN DAY FISHING?

This really depends on the species you are targeting.  Day fishing is more productive if fishing in coloured water than in clear water and also better on cloudy days than bright sunny days.  Also day fishing is probably more convenient for the whole family to enjoy.However,  night fishing can produce some excellent sized fish especially the big predatory type fish that come in closer to feed at night. Night fishing is a great expe and an excellent way of testing all your senses.&n...

Maintenance of fishing gear

Autumn is a great time of year to get out and go fishing.  The fish are in much closer, the weather is (slightly) more settled and the fish are hungry.So check your fishing rods and reels.Make sure you  have no scratches or nicks on your guides by rubbing a cotton bud around and inside your guides. Give your reels a birthday treat by cleaning them and check that your drags are working properly.  Nothing worse than a sticky drag.Now, check your tackle box! Check your line on your r...

Bait Selection

When going out on your fishing trip, take a variety of bait with you. Usually pilchards, bonito, trevally and mackerel work well.If you know fish are there and they are not biting what you are offering, then try some other type of bait.When you do catch a fish, open it up and inspect it's stomach to see what they are eating.  If they are eating very small baitfish then try to cut your bait in the same style to represent a small baitfish (a strip bait).  If they are eating crabs then cu...

Using attractors on your traces.

Use Attractor Beads, Luminous Tube, and flashy things on your rig near the hook to help attract fish to your bait. If you know that snapper or other large bitey fish  are being caught in your area at the time, use strong rigs and put some protective tubing on your trace near the hook to help avoid being bitten off.  Use Attractor Beads, Luminous Tube, and flashy things on your rig near the hook to help attract fish to your bait.If you know that snapper or other large bitey fish  a...

Fishing Tips

Keep all your bait scraps and bait fish carcasses and keep them in the freezer to use as burley on your next fishing trip.  Even when surfcasting from the beach, just throw in a good lump of burley and within a very short time you will attract the fish. Try putting out a crab pot/net and catch your own fresh bait!  Crabs do make excellent bait and they are pretty much free and quite often plentiful!Try to use keeper hooks on your rigs.  Not only does the keeper hook help to prese...