Fishing Monthly Magazine | July 2022

LIGHT, POWERFUL, DURABLE…

INTUITIVE CONTROL

LIGHT, POWERFUL, DURABLE…

TheINTUITIVE thrills and CONTROL spills of cast netting problems start when you square metre of opening drop the boat in and the onto an oyster covered rock outboard turns over but the size of a watermelon doesn’t start, or as has that you didn’t see. There’s a lot to be happened on more than The wind goes back to said for fishing in one occasion, the boat is where it was, but picks up, Queensland, and one of half full of water as you’ve and you drift into a nasty the beauties is not paying forgotten the bungs. mangrove branch that for it! Secondly, it’s being Either way, you spend starts to bend your upright able to get your own bait a precious half an hour rods over. without filling out a form getting sorted. You can feel one or so some shiny arse sitting At last you’re underway, two livies in the net. Rods. in an office somewhere smashing into the half metre Bait. Rods. Bait...You grab can feed his cat. 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Fishing Monthly Magazine | July 2022

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Boat Test: Remora 490

Freshwater

Karratha

Lancelin

Bunbury

Tournaments

Metro

Augusta

Mandurah

Wangaratta

Eildon

Ballarat

Phillip Island

Port Phillip Bay

Port Phillip East

Canberra

Hobart

Geelong

Offshore

New England Rivers

Batlow

Batemans Bay

Illawarra

Sydney North

Central Coast

Swansea

Sydney South

Sydney Rock

Pittwater

Kayak: Baffle Creek

Mackay

Sheik of the Creek

Cape York

Cooktown

Townsville

Hinchinbrook

Bundaberg

Starlo’s back to basics

Northern Bay

Jumpinpin

Noosa

QUEENSLAND The Tweed

Gold Coast

Southern Bay

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