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Coral trout have been a target recently and the author has man- aged a few smaller models.
Targeting fingermark in Gladstone Harbour
Spending time with the family has been a bonus. Kym with a nice pikey bream on a live herring.
Abby with a 50cm grunter on a live herring from a rocky outcrop in the har-
bour.
Gladstone Region
by GARY CHURCHWARD
WELCOME back read- ers, it’s great to slowly get back to a form of normality and routine.
been great, with rivers not fishing as well as I would have liked, I spent most of my time exploring and figuring out the harbour.
With most weekend sports and non-essen- tial activities being cancelled, most people have been given the chance to spend more time on the water.
There have been a couple of species I’ve tried targeting in the harbour – the first be- ing fingermark, which I managed to find in numbers in various lo- cations.
To make things even better, there have been cracking periods of lit- tle to no wind, which all anglers could have taken advantage of.
I think the best thing I learnt was the typical type of area to find fin- germark – I was able to apply this to other are- as around the harbour with results.
Due to the lockdown, people had been re- stricted to their local area – for me this has
I caught fish on just
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