The Mary River is a Queensland river with Australian bass, sooty grunter and golden perch recorded in it.

FlyLife’s writers say sooty grunter have been established for about a decade and are now widespread from downstream of Tiaro to well upstream past Kenilworth. On one trip they found bass and sooty grunter in shady pockets of deeper water along a steeper bank edge with a little timber nearby, and location mattered far more than fly pattern or depth once that structure was identified.

Read the Queensland Department of Primary Industries, Fisheries Queensland fishing rules before you go.