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ESTUARY TROLLING TECHNIQUES

ONE of the most underrated and under-utilised techniques for estuarine lure fishers is slow trolling bibbed hard bodies and I don’t really understand why as it’s so effective. Possibly, it’s due to the rise in popularity of tournaments that have adopted the US largemouth bass style casting only competition rules. One of the hot beds of estuary lure trolling in Australia is South East Queensland where the art of trolling for dusky flathead has been refined and developed to a high level by local anglers that compete in the famed Gold Coast Flathead Classic including Fisho regulars David Green and Rob

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