Fishing Charters & Wilderness Tours, Cape York

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Bamaga QLD 4876
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Latest Report October - December 2009

Early October saw the arrival of Eric Wood and friends Neville & Mike together with Alan Satchell’s group of sister Lyn, son Conrad and mate Tony.

The first couple of days out at the Jacky Jacky were a little quiet but still saw some nice fish come in, including Barra, F/Mark, Cod, Salmon, Grunter, Mackerel, Queenfish, Nannigai etc. Memorable moments being a very large Barra over the metre smashing the lure on Eric’s boat, then to see her jumping all over the place putting on a great show only to get the better of the boys eventually. Then Tony casting, hooking up on a nice cod only to have a crocodile takes both cod and lure and the struggle begins, good fun Tony wasn’t it ? NOT.

Then over to the west coast for some action with Barra, Tarpon, GT’s, Queenies, Tuna, b/cuda, & of course the odd shark with the Satchell’s going over to the east for Grunter, barra, Trevally, cod, bream, nannigai, f/mark, Jewfish etc.

Back to Jacky Jacky for good catches Barra, F/mark, Cod, GT, Tarpon etc. Alan & family stayed on for another two days for good catches of Barra, cod, GT, Gold spot trevally ,Big Mackerel, coral trout, Tuna, Queenfish etc. Memorable moments Lyn’s first barra the anticipation then BANG, mayhem follows with all the boys offering advice etc Tony reckon’s it should have been his !! Then the blue water madness getting those Tuna in, Haven’t laughed so much for a long time, it was great. Thank you all enjoyed your company look forward to next time.

Next up is the return of the Zarb group of Charlie, Dug, Ed, Andrew, and Mario & Mac. Off to the East coast for good catches of barra, GT’s, Cod, Nannigai, Mackerel, Queenfish, Grunter, bream etc. we lost a big barra and a very large F/mark, or maybe it was only a sporting long range release, yeah !!!!!

Then over to the west coast for a great session on fun barra with 30 fish in, with as many dropped. Coral Trout, Parrot, Salmon, bludger trevally, Gt, Stripy’s, Sweetlip and some scary & exciting moments with the bullets of the sea Longtail Tuna’s , which had everybody’s heart rate climbing.

The last two days we spent back in the Jacky Jacky with good catches of barra (22) F/mark, Jack, Salmon, GT’s, Cod, Grunter & a couple of nice mud crabs.

All had a good time and take with them some fine memories, thank you all we did thoroughly enjoy you company ( even yours Charlie ).

Mike Craig with Dad (John) arrives from NZ for a return trip. 30knot winds made things a little awkward but we still managed to get Barra, F/mark, Grunter, cod, bream, Gt, Nannigai, sweetlip etc.

The next couple of days produced some very nice barra to 80cm plus, Jack, Tarpon, Queenfish, GT, cod, grunter,F/mark, even some very angry archer fish. Moments to remember were the battle with a small groper (14lb ) deep into the mangroves which John won, then two sessions on barra which provided great fun with good quality, John will never forget the strike and following battle with a 80cm plus barra fantastic performance and then another battle with a groper of about 80 - 100kg this time though, on the end of my hand. Thank god I am now wearing gloves (which got torn to shreds) I just put my hand over to wash them when BANG I was pulled to the floor with my arm over the boat, John thinks I’ve collapsed and am having a heart attack (dam near was) 2-3 seconds it let go......... there has to be an easier way to catch a fish. A quick count of digits all good.

Final day back to the East coast (get away from those bloody gropers) to finish with some nice barra, F/mark, cod, GT, Tarpon, Sand bass and Queenfish.

Thanks you two we had a great time and a special praise to Mike, who has a great attitude, he never stops trying with cast after cast but gets the result in the end, well done, look forward to our next meeting.

Next to arrive was the Todman group with Mark, and mate Ian “Bucky” and new comer to this part of the world Chris Smith.

The first three days saw us do battle with some good barra, F/mark, GT’s, Tarpon, Cod, Bream, Nannigai, Mackerel, Parrott, Sweetlip, sand bass, stripeys etc. We had some fun with bonito and then good size Queenfish on poppers (heh Chris).

Then over to the west coast for some exciting blue water fishing with Tuna, Mackerel, Bludger Trevally, gold spot trevally, GT’s, Queenfish, Jack, coral trout, sweetlip, cod, etc. Memorable moments were two sessions on the barra in the estuary, one with 13 good quality fish the other with 21 fun fish (45 – 55cm) they needed to be good casts to get the result as the fish were well back in the snag but the lads did very well indeed.

Last day out to east again for some mackerel action, GT’s, reef fish and a good session on quality barra, with 8 coming in and we managed to jump off a further 10 fish.

A very good week lads, thank you for your company am already looking forward to next time.

Don Park, Peter Devietti and newcomer Russell Townsend arrive for a short visit I tell them first day will be tough and then get better yeah right!!! First day was a beauty with 27 barra, 4 good jack, cod, tarpon, GT’s, Queenfish, bream etc.

The casting was good maybe the odd lure being blown into the snags or it could have been the fish jumping high.....not sure !!!! No we had a fun time and they did get results with some good casting.

Next day over to east coast for 10 barra, GT, Queenfish, cod, etc to follow up with a rainy day and a dropping Barometer to finish with a couple of barra, a very nice trout,some oversize B/cuda, sweetlip, nannigai, GT’s and Queenfish that Russell had an orgasm with while poppering great stuff. Thank you gentlemen for our time together, it was great fun (except for the blue water, sorry Don ) see you all next year.

Last client in for 2009 is John White. John loves his barra fishing (the hunt) a good caster and managed to get the rewards with 62 barra for the trip. He also caught some very nice fingermark, big cod, heaps of GT’s some quite large for the estuary, Giant Herring etc.

He had an exciting time with big Queenfish until you know who showed up, but it was as always the barra that gets him excited. We had some great action with good visual strikes, jumps and plenty of ooow, arrrrrrs. Quality fish of 60’s, 70’s and up to 85cm was the go, great fun well done John’o I know you enjoyed yourself, I did.

See you next year.

2009 was yet another good year with some species being a little down on numbers or just late in the season but there was always something else there to get you excited.

Thank you one and all for your patronage with heaps of exciting memories and pics to reflect on.

Take care until we see you again.

Next report Mid June 2010

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