What tackle should you bring?
The easy answer is that you don’t need to bring anything if you don’t want to. We have an onboard tackle store that can cater for all your charter tackle needs, as well as an online store where you can purchase any tackle prior to your trip and have it waiting on the boat.
Please visit our Online Charter Tackle Store dedicated to all the lures and terminal tackle that we use on charter.
We also have a Charter Location Tackle Guide – which tells you all the gear you need for each different location we fish, and we have a recommendation for Tackle by Species on the online store as well.
However, for those wanting to bring their own gear, or purchase from our partner retail stores around Australia – please visit the , here are the rods and reels that we recommend.
- GT popping outfit with a 7’8-8ft GT popping rod matched with a heavy GT spinning reel with 100lb Pandora Braid or Nomad Hollow Core Braid. Suitable rods would be a Wilson Venom PE8-10, Ripple Fisher GT79R, 78 flex or Yamaga Blue Reef 78/8
- GT stickbat outfit with a 7’10”-8’2″ stickbait rod matched with a similar GT spinning reel with 100lb Pandora Braid or Nomad Hollow Core Braid. Rod suitable would be Ripple fisher Ultimo 79MH, Ultimo 79H or GT79R
- A lighter Spin outfit with 65lb braid matched with an 8000 or 10000 Stella size reel, the rod should be a PE5-6 rated spin rod between 7-7’6″. This outfit is used on the shallow reef flats to give you a better chance at landing the bigger fish that tend to bust us off on the 40lb outfit, and also to cast the mid range stickbaits that work well in these areas.
- A lighter spinning rod with a stella 5000SW reel, 40lb braid, matched to a 7-7’6″ casting rod. Rods we use for this job are ether a Yamaga Blue Sniper 70/4 or a 75/4.
- Another lighter 20lb spin rod with a 7ft casting rod is also sometimes useful for night fishing from the mothership for a bit of sport.
- Our light 40lb spin rod can be used for Micro jigging, but we recommend to bring your own PE 2 micro jig rod in either spin or overhead with thin diameter 30lb braid such as Delux Amigo Plus 30lb. The range of Gomoku jig rods are ideal for this and are well priced.
- Trolling outfits and gamefishing rods and reels are all provided, and there’s really no need to bring trolling rods on your trip unless you want to.
