A Fishing NZ host breaks down finesse soft-bait fishing for surface-feeding snapper in a shallow harbour, covering six-pound braid, light jig heads, weedless rigs, electric-motor stealth and how to read working fish.
On a fishing trip to Wakulla County, Florida, the highlight was not the grouper offshore but a backwoods demonstration of worm grunting, a near-vanished folk art that calls native earthworms out of the ground to bait for bream.
With the salt blown out and the boat stuck at home, the Micksgonefishing host walked the bank of a freshwater run-off and landed a string of barra, including a pair of 83s.
A Port Douglas creek session distils the essentials of chasing mangrove jack - cast into heavy snags, run a 40lb leader, lock up instantly on the strike and fish the run-in tide in low light.
After 40 years chasing jewfish, veteran angler Shannon lays out the repeat mistakes keeping anglers off big mulloway — from fishing dead water to making too much noise.
On a tough, cold session on the NSW mid-north coast, Daiwa Australia's John Medaka and local Chris Hickson work the sand flats for big flathead, landing a near-80cm fish and sharing hard-won cold-water tactics.
Sydney rock fisher Fishburger spends three nights chasing squid on jigs across multiple Sydney headlands, lands his first proper green-eye calamari on a jig and admits the technique has become a new addiction.
Molly Dixon and travel partner Jaz roll the dice on four cold pots in a Gulf country mangrove system, walk away with three crabs across an overnight soak, and finish the day boiling them in salt water on the beach for the unfussiest catch-and-cook on the Far North Queensland map.
Seafood Industry SA's Kyri Toumazos warns it could take five to ten years for the state's seafood industry to recover after Gulf St Vincent's algal-bloom closure was pushed out from July 2026 to May 2027, with King George Whiting now retailing close to $100 a kilo at the Adelaide Central Market.
Shroom's late-night bream session under a string of bridges in heavy rain ends with a hero fish landed only after his cameraman wades waist-deep into a snag pile to free the line — proof, the YouTuber argues, that rough weather and downpours actually concentrate bream rather than scatter them.
Hawkesbury bait fisherman Hunters Fishing Adventure has put the live-bait-versus-dead-bait argument under a stopwatch with a three-rod side-by-side test, and the result was emphatic—a 1.10 m, fifteen-kilo mulloway smashed his snail-rigged live yellowtail while chunk-bait yellowtail kept the bag full of school-sized fish topped by an 85 cm jewfish.
ABT founder Steve Morgan has stayed front and centre at the 2026 Daiwa BREAM Australian Open, leaving Sydney's launch ramp with key tag number one on the second morning before swapping a small crankbait limit out of Middle Harbour into oyster-rack upgrades on Eco Gear Aqua and a closing run of fish on Outback River Baits Little Mass.