Independent MPs have clashed over Tasmania’s ban on recreational sand flathead fishing in the southeast, with critics slamming the lack of consultation while supporters praise the conservation move.

Minister for Primary Industries and Water Gavin Pearce said the latest research from the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) shows sand flathead stock is depleted below critical levels, ...

Firstly, the need to be careful reeling in a hard-fighting flathead. Secondly, to make sure you can tread water when covered in lots of winter clothing. Thirdly, the best way to get back in a small ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Sunshine Coast. Followed categories will be added to My News. Even through flathead can be caught all-year round, the spring-to-summer transition seems to be the ...

Lots of anglers took advantage of the good conditions and headed offshore from Burnett Heads and Seventeen Seventy to fish the reefs out around Lady Elliot and Musgrave islands and the country further ...