SPECIES FISHING GUIDES.

Iconic southern Australian reef-and-bay table fish.

Apex pelagic brawler of southern AU and northern NZ.

Estuary ambush predator — NSW's most-targeted sport fish.

Aggressive beach/headland surface predator — winter NSW classic.

Nocturnal estuary-and-beach ghost — the patience fish.

Estuary all-rounder — the fish that taught a generation to lure-fish.

Light-tackle estuary gem — pound-for-pound the best eating.

High-speed tropical pelagic — toll-collector of QLD reef boats.

Australia's iconic northern estuary predator.

Pound-for-pound estuary brawler — pure aggression in 50 cm.

From estuary silvers to offshore GTs — speed and brutality.

Beach and rock pelagic schooler — winter NSW/VIC/SA classic.

Pound for pound, the hardest-pulling fish in the Gulf.

The South Island's sweetest table fish, structure-glued and greedy.

Slow, ugly, and worth every minute — a live-bait ambush specialist.

Sweet white flesh that walks the sand on finger-fins.

Small-mouthed reef gold that lives down deep — fish fine, fish patient.

The southern table king — seagrass, sand holes and patience pay off.

WA's endemic reef trophy — best eating fish on the west coast.

Tasmania's deep-reef king — the best table fish off the bottom.

The NT's hardest-pulling reef bruiser that lives in the snags.

High-country freshwater target — alpine lakes, tailwater rivers, hatchery and wild.

Spookiest trout in the southern hemisphere — wild AU/NZ rivers, polaroid sight-fishing.

Tasmanian rivers and lakes — wild + escapee fish from sea-cage farms, fly-rod target.

AU freshwater apex — surface boofs, snags, structure, the green ghost of the Murray-Darling.

Iconic Murray-Darling river fish — yellow flanks, schools in flowing water, bibbed minnows + spinnerbaits.

East-coast freshwater target — coastal rivers, dam stockies, surface lures at dawn.

Invasive but heavily fished in southern AU — schools, weed, bibbed minnows, easy to target.

WA's iconic west-coast reef and bay species.

GBR reef apex — the best-eating fish in Australian waters.

Deep-water tropical reef trophy — premium table fish.

World's premier billfish — Cairns to Cape Bowling Green.

Acrobatic blue-water FAD-loving summer pelagic.

The blue-water freight train — Australia's premier offshore game fish.

World's fastest fish — tropical pelagic acrobat.

Tropical pelagic speedster — bullet-fast strikes.

Atlantic NE migratory predator — surf, boat, and inlet game fish.

Florida Keys and Gulf — pure jumping power on a fly.

Florida inshore ambush predator — lights, docks, mangrove edges.

Saltwater flats fly-fishing classic — Florida Keys / Bahamas.

Gulf Coast and SE inshore staple — copper-bodied flats ambusher.

Pelagic-yet-inshore wanderer — sight-fish or chum aggression.

SE pelagic toll-collector — fast strikes on slow-troll.

Atlantic NE aggressive predator — toothy chrome-and-blue freight train.

Mid-Atlantic / NE bottom ambusher — drift-and-bounce game.

Gulf and SE estuary all-rounder — light-tackle grass-flat target.

Pacific Northwest + Great Lakes anadromous rainbow — coastal rivers, drift boats, swung flies.

The Gulf's red gold — short seasons, deep structure, big reward.

Crab-crushing bottom bruiser of bridges, passes and oyster bars.

The convict fish with human teeth that robs you blind on structure.

The wariest snapper inshore — beat its eyes, not its appetite.

The ambush flatfish that buries on the edge and waits.

Structure-hugging brawler that fights hard and eats even better.

The brawler of the wrecks that eats crabs and dives for cover.

The surf's most prized jack, eaten flea by flea down the trough.

The Pacific Coast's bread-and-butter reef fish, stacked over every hard bottom.

The toothy ambush boss of the Pacific reef.

The ambush flatfish that buries in the sand and crushes a drifting anchovy.

The barn-door flatfish of the cold Pacific gravel.

The reef bulldog that eats crabs and fights dirty.

California's premier inshore croaker — kelp ghosts that haunt the squid spawn.

The bulldog of the reef ledges, all power and bad attitude.

Gulf and South-Atlantic reef bruiser — live bait and speed jigs over deep structure.

Fast, toothy, gold-spotted speedsters that boil bait from the Carolinas to Texas.

THE American bass — Florida-strain trophy fishery + northern-strain everywhere from Maine to California.

Clear-water rock-and-current bass — Great Lakes, northern river smallies, harder-fighting cousin to largemouth.

Northern lakes apex predator — toothy ambusher, ice-out + late-fall trophy windows.

America's most-fished catfish — rivers, ponds, reservoirs everywhere from MN to TX, bait-fishing core target.

Great Lakes + northern lakes night-feeding eye — low-light specialist, the premier US eating fish.

Southern reservoir black-bass — between largemouth and smallmouth, schools on offshore structure, finesse-heavy.

Great Lakes + northern lakes panfish — schooling, family-friendly, ice-fishing favorite, world-class eating.

Schooling panfish in brushpiles and docks — spring-spawn slab hunt, the great American family fishery.

The fish of 10,000 casts — 50-inch trophy cult target, northern US and Canadian shield apex predator.