Hooked Up 142 March 2024

Our cover story this month is all about how to catch broadbill swordfish! It’s not for everybody but it’s the pinnacle of game fishing and a bucket list species for many anglers. Tasmanian author Jonah Yick has caught many so he’s a great angler to learn from.

We then shift our focus to a much smaller fish, and with very easy to understand instructions and diagrams we clearly show how to tie a King George whiting rig. It’s simple but many get it wrong.

It’s then time to leave the deep south and head way up to the tropics of the Great Barrier Reef where Colby Lesko has a dream trip slow pitching for big reefies. The story is titled Three Dream Drops and that should you give you an indication of what happened on this day out. It’s a cracker of a story.

We finish off with Part 1 of our four-part series Know Your Lures. In this first part we go in depth and cover in detail 5 popular lure styles anglers use in estuaries and rivers. Part 2 will cover offshore lures.

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