3 Days of variety in the tropics

I recently returned to Weipa for a week from the Cairns marlin season to take some clients on tour of the wilds of Weipa. A day spent offshore produced spanish mackerel, tuna, trevally etc, while the next couple of days were spent in the creeks catching barramundi, mangrove jacks, estuary cod, bream, fingermark and tangles with some unstoppable snag dwelling creatures. On the wildlife side not to much was missed with sea snakes, a couple of species of dolphins, turtles, kangaroos, pigs, box jellyfish and of course crocodiles observed at times from extremely close quarters. Pictured is "Mackerel Boy" Mike with an average sized spanish; a couple of barras for Graham and Mike; Graham with a nice jack; Peter with one of the few estuary cod which could be stopped.

These guys had a very good five days with lots of great video of bait balls and triple hook ups on macks, tuna, GTs and other trevalys. At the end of the week the guys reels will need rebuilding with bits falling off and smoke almost coming out of there drags.I think we might see them again.

Affter going down the coast on the first day and catching fingermark,tuna,trevaly and lots of other reef criters we were up the rivers for the next five days.We had two slow days in the middle were the tide didnt move much.The other days were good with everyone catching barra on well cast lures.This king Salmon was one off 21 we released on one day.

Jack with his blue basted and black spot tuskfish very happy walking the beach and casting to nice fish like this,he also had a shot at a school of feeding permit but the fly landed like a stone right in the middle of the fish.Jacks none fly fishing buddy was happy to leave the beaches and get into the tuna,macks@trevaly offshore at every opportunity.

Stripe on Fly

We have a a video attached here, it is of me catching a beautiful Stripe Marlin on Fly in Port Stephen's in New South Wales early in this year.

All you have to do is click on the attachment below. Happy Watching.

Stripe Marlin on Fly