A casual meeting around a bar in outback Queensland in 1991 saw the Charleville Fishing and Restocking Club form. Drinks were had and glasses clinked in the town, a 10-hour drive west of Brisbane.

Judey Aiken is as well-known for her potty mouth as she is for her eclectic outback store selling fishing gear ... the remote community of Charleville in south-western Queensland.

Anglers in multiple locations along the Queensland coast have been hooking huge barramundi and king threadfin in a boom being attributed to a ban on gill net fishing. See where the prime spots are.

Don't miss out on the headlines from QLD News. Followed categories will be added to My News. The Sunday Mail can reveal the Palaszczuk Government will bring in a major fishing changes from today ...

By the 1860s the area was being settled and as early as 1866 a pub and a general store had appeared on the site of modern-day Charleville. In 1868 William Alcock Tully, the then Queensland under ...