You want a good rod and reel to catch you fish, have a bit of fun without costing you all your cash. A few simple basics will help make the right choices…lets start with the rod. Selecting a good rod

Fish eat a variety of foods…some of them might surprise you. In the wild they’ll scoff down insects, worms, crabs, shrimp, snails, tadpoles, frogs, other fish – including their own young. Some also graze on algae and other plant matter.

There are countless hook styles and sizes available, sometimes covering whole walls of tackle shops, but many anglers pay little attention to matching the right hook to the type of fishing they do. Aussie anglers are a pretty optimistic lot…

If you haven’t been lure fishing before, or been unsuccessful, it’s worth taking a bit of time to learn how it’s done…’cause hooking a fish on a lure…the sudden pull and action can really get the blood pumping…  …I know

  Fish love live bait…but it can cost a bit if you use it often so you can keep the costs down if you “home grow” some of it…and the easiest live bait is worms.   I’ve always grown worms

Watched a video yesterday of fish feeding in a lake.  A fanatical angler had lowered a camera into the water and was recording everything that happened near his bait…the action was fascinating.   What was really interesting was how the