Reef Addicts hitch a last-minute helicopter trip with Nautilus Helifish into the Northern Territory floodplains - flying between two cyclones - and walk away with a 96 cm barramundi, threadfin salmon and a clutch of mid-80s fish despite cold rain and an early-season run-off.
A Bunbury family business has raised more than $25,000 in a weekend to bankroll a legal challenge against Western Australia's permanent ban on commercial demersal fishing, calling the buyback offer 'nowhere near enough for a lifetime of loss'.
Florida Sport Fishing TV's 2026 deep-drop opener aboard the SeaHunter battled three-knot Gulf Stream current, a thinning offshore bite and visiting Coast Guard inspections, finishing with tilefish, a snowy grouper, a yellow-edge grouper and a clutch dolphin double that the captain says "saved the day."
Edwin Evers's May 2026 Where to Start episode tackles three rivers — the Columbia, the Ohio and the Alligator — and bets a million bucks on a single canal spot to crack the river spawn.
After two days of mud-crab raids, a few legal-sized barra and a clutch of golden kingfish, the ReelLoose Adventures crew nail a 102 cm metre barramundi on lures from a remote Top End river system — the first metre on the boat for Jack and the fish that closes the trip.
After a 3 a.m. wake-up and a half-hour-past-high-tide cast on the rocks, Rachel from Reel Outdoors NZ and Reel Girls NZ lifts a personal-best snapper on day three of Legends of the Coast Taranaki 2026 — Paul on the camera calling it the moment that probably wins the comp.
After a flat afternoon of cuda-bites and a single 45-pound wahoo on an RJ Boil jet, Reel Guides TV's Captain Cody and the Good Hit Sport Fishing crew run into a sundown blitz off Bimini and stack 18 yellowfin tuna on the deck inside an hour — including a fish in the high 90s.
Sammy Hitzke ditches a rain-locked Brisbane and drives south overnight in search of fishable rocks. He scratches together five luderick, a tailor on a fizzer and a dropped half-dozen more on green weed under a centre-pin float — and watches mate Drew kick his backside in a side-by-side weed comparison.
Internal emails released under FOI show South Australian public servants were repeatedly instructed to remove the words 'harmful', 'outbreak' and 'disaster' from communications about the marine algal bloom that has decimated fish stocks, with one senior worker labelling the advice 'bizarre'.
Aboard the Legend out of San Diego, the first Fish the Legend trip of 2026 hooked school-size bluefin tuna and out-of-season dorado on fly-line baits over 66.5-degree water, with a captain reporting yellowtail at the islands and a fishery he describes as "plenty of life out here right now."
Sammy Hitzke pushed 60 km offshore solo for the deep-drop fish he calls his favourite eating species and grafted out a five-fish flame tail bag in three to four hours of brutal current and wind.
The Fishing Scotsman set himself a deliberate target on a Western Australian beach - a metre-plus mulloway in 24 hours, using mullet frames as burley and fresh tailor for bait. Six hours in he had a 110 cm fish on the sand, then kept going - finishing the session with four mulloway, three tailor and what he openly called the best beach session of his life.