$39.99 at Tackle World
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The dad who releases most of what he catches and still wants proof it was as big as he says
A 1.2m measuring mat for anglers who measure rather than weigh their catch.
Measuring keeps the fish flat and horizontal instead of hanging off a lip-gripped scale, which is the handling that crushes gill plates and kills fish days after release. It also ends the boat-ramp size argument with a photograph rather than an estimate.
Dispatch and transit are separate windows and the estimate on a product page is usually only the second one. How long Australia Post actually takes.
They publish no return window, so assume the Australian Consumer Law minimum and nothing more.
A faulty, unsafe or misdescribed product carries a consumer guarantee no store policy can remove. Tackle World’s full terms.
Tackle World’s delivery and returns pages were read on 3 September 2026. Policies change without notice; theirs at checkout is the one that binds.
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The dad who crimps his own wire traces for mackerel and can never find the crimping tool when the boat is already moving
The dad who fishes braid off the boat and has been hacking at it with the same seized bait scissors since 2019
Has a cutting edge. MoTackle sells it to over-18s only and verifies age at checkout.
The dad who fishes off the rocks or the bank and has to carry everything in on foot
Has a cutting edge. MoTackle sells it to over-18s only and verifies age at checkout.
The dad who throws hard-bodied lures with trebles and has already been hooked once getting a fish off
We will email you three weeks before Christmas, and three weeks before Father’s Day, with the shortlist already narrowed and the post still able to get there.
Two or three emails a year. Not a newsletter.
