From the Flybridge
  • Welcome
  • The LOGBOOK
  • Game Fishing
    • Put Yourself Here...
    • Teaser Dredges?
    • Wiring Big Fish
    • Big Game Fishing - Another day at the office
    • The Solitary Coast >
      • Fishing the Solitary Coast
      • Finding the core of the East Australian Current
      • The Ekman Transport Phenomenon
      • BOM and Other Coastal Weather Forecasts
      • Bar and harbour webcams
      • BOM rain radar
    • A Lure Story >
      • BLUE MARLIN MAGIC
    • How's this for a Wind-on Leader...?!
    • Ethical Handling of Billfish
    • Gamefish Research Paper - 2003 to 2013 Landed Fish
    • Nick's Page >
      • The 300-kilogram Blue Marlin
      • Fishing the 2014 Golden Lure
      • The Hunt for Mr. McGoo
    • Thoughts on Setting the Drag
    • To Tease, or not to Tease...?
    • What game fish...?
    • Moon Phases and the Hot Marlin Bite
    • What is a "Normal" Fishing Year?
    • What kind of Crewmember are you?
    • So you want to own a Game Boat?
    • The Golden Minute
    • Striped Marlin Techniques
    • Wahoo Parasites
    • Eye and Brain Heating in Billfish
    • Game Flags - Do you know how to fly them?
    • Sportfish Hawaii and Fish University
    • Report from the International Billfish Symposium - 2013
    • NSW Striped Marlin Fishery Interactions
  • Galleries
    • Videos
    • Photos
  • Propspeed
  • Specific Fuel Range and your Boat
  • Be a Better Skipper
  • The mAIS app - MarineTraffic.com
  • Crewing a Game Boat.... read this first
  • So you want to be on the Committee...?
  • Boat Speed and Lure Performance - The Myths and the Facts
  • The Marlin Bite, Scumlines, and the EAC
  • Contact
  • Coastal Venturi Effects
Want to go straight to our daily game fishing news update and blog? Just visit the Logbook Page, 
or 
if you want to read about what it's like to be in the middle of the action, check out the "Put Yourself Here" piece, and if you think you'd like to join a game fishing crew click here
or 
check out the video above to see what we do, and then simply cruise around the menu to explore our site

So... you're interested in game fishing...?


Game fishing is intoxicating... it can be the focus of extreme action, intense physical challenge, excitement, and even choreographed mayhem. It has also been unfairly described as hours and hours of boredom if there are no game fish around and you don't like watching - or worse, don't take the time to see -  the cobalt blue sea rolling past in all its moods, albatrosses, shearwaters and gulls riding the wind, dolphins in their hundreds, sharks and whales sliding past your boat, and all the other things that are happening under your nose if you take the time to look on any given day.

Game fishing is best conducted as a team sport rather than a solo pursuit. It involves very big fish, big toys, a diverse group of devotees, unique fishing skills, long hours, and when conducted from the Solitary Coast of Australia, beautiful seascapes at the start of a day's fishing, and gorgeous sunsets over Australia's Great Dividing Range when returning to Coffs Harbour after a day beyond the edge of the continental shelf... so if you're looking to be part of this, check out the "Put Yourself Here" and  "Crew Wanted" pages.

If you want information about the specific types of game fishing to be experienced here, and even hints on timing and good fishing techniques for these waters, there's plenty of information on the "Fishing the Solitary Coast" page. General thoughts on certain types of gear and rigs, and all kinds of other information on game fishing are also scattered around the website.

The "Logbook" reports and daily updates, and the videos and photographs are all about big game fishing in the waters along this beautiful coast. 

From the Flybridge started off as a local newspaper column, and has now morphed into a daily (or thereabouts...) Logbook fishing news update that highlights recent local game fishing activity or anything else topical and considered of interest to anglers. 

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