Start Up!

Well we are just about to start up for the season so onour last day's off we went fishing (as you do).

Things look pretty good down the coast with the water colour clearing and looking more like it should, and the tides receding back to normal.

Guess now we just have to see if the bait turns up?

There have been a few tuna at the bottom end of the bay, but are very flighty and hard to approach.

Hopefully that will all change in the coming weeks.

My sister in law Janine has come to Weipa doing some training to become a nurse so the family ventured out for a day's fishing and sight seeing.

Janine caught her first fish EVER which of course was a queenfish.

Kristy my daughter and Notso's other half captured a 8kg goldie on 10lb line from under a manta ray. We then went to red cliffs for a dip under the fresh spring water pouring from the cliffs and had a bite of lunch before heading home.

Pre Season Warm Up

I've been home for a week or two and given the Last Cast a mini makeover in readiness for the coming year. Of course the boat needed to be run so it was a good reason to take Kristy and Calais for a fish. We found a bunch of queenies around the bridge which were fun on light gear. A few days later Fish and I went for a look along the beaches and found good numbers of queenies smashing bait and had a ball for a couple of hours with the fly rods. I also managed a nice Giant Herring which took a stationary clouser while I was waiting to make another cast - the fish were that thick!! We also found lots of good blue salmon which were willing to eat our flies as well. Later that day a bunch of barras kept us busy eating lures and flies at the mouth of some drains. We managed a couple for dinner and both lost really nice fish as well.

Kristy on a queenie with Calais checking out the action.....

This is actually my best GH on fly to date. I used my Sage 8wt TCR with 20lb leader and a white clouser. The first run took 50m or so of backing!