Features

I8 Small Stream Pleasures - Wild Bass Fly Fishing
As our fly fishing editor Peter Morse explains, successful fly fishing for bass in our smaller creeks and tributaries requires both effort and sharp casting skills.
14 Shady Camp Explodes
The Top End has experienced the worst wet season in more than two decades but, as AJ explains, Shady Camp still offered some magnificent barramundi fishing.
24 Kick Board Breaming
Dave Rae describes how kick board and other rubber material can be used to turn out some very effective surface lures that bream find irresistible.
34 High Adventures With Brazakka
Mondora takes to the air with Brazakka to sample some of the remote Cape York barra fishing which can be accessed by helicopter.
42 Tips From the Barra Guides
We asked some of Australia's top barramundi fishing guides to share their expertise with us and they came up with some excellent tips for barra anglers.
48 Up the Noosa
Warren Steptoe reckons the wild bass fishery of the upper Noosa River is thriving, but it would be better if not for a national park's policy of limiting angler mobility.
51 2001/2002 Electic Bass Final
Results from the Lake Lenthall final.
54 The Pilbara's Estuaries
As Col Roberts explains, bigger and faster barra boats, and the development of suitable techniques have combined to make the Pilbara one of WA's best barra fishing locations.
64 Champion Breaming Techniques
The 2001 BREAM Grand Final highlighted some very successful breaming techniques. Kim Bain examines those used by NSW Team Captain, Steve Starling, and Grand Final winner, Michael Metcalf.
68 Leeders Creek
Most places where you can catch metre-long barra and jewies, both on lures, are a bit hard to get to but, as Chris Errity explains, there is one such spot which is very convenient for Darwin anglers.
72 Brogo Bass - A Southern Bass Dam Rising
Micah Adams reports on a picturesque freshwater impoundment on the far south coast of NSW that is full of bass and potential.
76 WEIPA DOUBLE PART 1: Barra Bonanza in Weipa
Andrew McGovern explains why so many anglers return to Weipa year after year and barra off the beaches and rocks are definitely part of it.
79 WEIPA DOUBLE PART 2: Crocs V Canetoads
Neil Taylor provides a Northern Territorian's perspective on Weipa's barra fishery.
82 Bass V Barra - Rating Our Two Top Perch Head-to-Head
Steve Starling on the relative merits of our two great sportfish.
88 Baitfishing Townsville Barra
As Leeann Payne found, there is some excellent barra fishing in Townsville's Bohl and Haughton Rivers but knowing the local bait fishing tactics can certainly improve your success rate.
92 Lake Proserpine - Impoundment Barra Hotspot
Lake Tinaroo has the big barra reputation but Neil Schultz believes that Lake Proserpine may actually be more productive.

Thru The Wake
58 Barra & Bass Rigs
Stacer's 475 Nomad
- Chris Makepeace

Regular Snags
6 Editor's Weed Bed
12 Bushy on Bream - Bushy
20 Starlo's Perch - Steve Starling
22 Morgan's Mumbles - Steve Morgan
24 Big Ponds - Neil Schultz
30 Western Tails - Kim Courtenay
40 Leeann - Leeann Payne
52 AJ - Alex Julius
60 Dr John - John Glaister
62 Between Casts - Warren Steptoe
70 Shooting Lines - Peter Morse
86 Feedback
95 Bush Tracks - Dick Eussen
96 Fishing Guides Profile
97 B&B Bookshelf
99 Get the Point - St John Ambulance Reader's Contest
100 Good Gear
103 Going Fishing - Tours and Services
106 Notes From a Cranky Old Bastard - John Mondora