Great Beach Fishing

Rod Kimberley and Jeff Birtles recently enjoyed a weeks fly fishing here in Weipa. The tides and conditions were ideal for the beaches.

Among golden trevally, queenies, giant herring, bream, blue and threadfin salmon, Rod caught this magnificent 103cm Queenfish off the beach.




A relative newcomer to the sport, Jeff caught several small queenies and lost a couple of nice Giant Herring before staying connected to this great fish. Well done!! To prove it wasn't a fluke, he then went ahead to land another 3 GH's! The tunas were also in full swing this week (along with some sharks) and the guys also were treated to a hot spanish mackerel bite one afternoon, the biggest being about 25lb.

When the wind blows....

We are having some terrible weather at the moment, 30knot winds and a big swell making conditions along the coast less than ideal. However we are lucky to have some great estuary systems to spend the day in, targeting a wide variety of tropical species. Lurlene and Arthur Higson from the Sunshine Coast are spending a few days catching some quality fish this week. Pictured are the happy couple with a beaut mangrove jack that Arthur caught. Not to be out done, Lurlene pulled this barra from a low tide drain on a live bait. Other species caught today were fingermark, blue salmon, queenfish and the ever present sharks and catfish.

Quality Fish on Fly

It was one of those days where the fishing wasn't red hot but some quality fish were taken on fly. Here Stu Cottrell and Tony Stent, fly fishermen from Tassie, persisted over some shallow reef to tempt an assortment of tropical species. Tony released this barracuda, fortunately hooked in the corner of the mouth, away from those savage teeth while his fishing partener Stu, landed (for the table) this fine fingermark of 64cm. It should be mentioned that Stu also landed a smaller fish (55cm) and lost a monster fingermark estimated at over 70cm. Well dome guys! For the day 13 species were taken on fly while shots were had at another 5 or 6 species.

Big Fish - Great Fun, But Expensive!!

As Fish has already shown, we have had an amazing couple of days fishing among literally hundreds of Manta Rays offshore. Pictured here is John Wright, avid fly fisherman with the most expensive (and biggest) cobia he has caught to date. After 15 minutes of serious tug of war, sharks were beginning to show interest in the tiring fish, so John redlined his gear to the max - unfortunately for a moment too long. The 4 piece became a 7 piece, but luckily the fish was still able to be landed just as another JAWS episode was about to unfold. The broken rod topped off a more expensive day than usual with John losing a fly line to an unseen speedster (we think the backing loop was chewed through) and another sinking line was being untangled when a tuna ate the fly and pulled the mess into a super tight "WIND" knot!! It always pays to have spares in Weipa.

Specials

Hi guy's as we have still a few spaces left in July /August we have decided to offer a few specials for you to consider.
So if any one was thinking of slipping up for a few day's here is the chance.
Check this out!
Based on twin share includes GST and valid for July/ August 2006
4 Nights accommodation at the new fishing lodge including meals prepared by private chef.
transfers to and from airport
and 3 day's fully guided fishing
$1500 per person
There was some great fishing last July and August and the fishing hasn't really beenup to expectations through Mayand june so it just might happen a little later this year?

Nick Durant with a fine queenfish caught during August 2005

Peter Curro captured and rteleased this fine cobia from the behind a manta ray.

On this particular day we saw literally hundreds of Manta's some with cobia on them some others just feeding on plankton many miles from shore.

The tuna were al;so thick on this day and as you can see the weather was spectacular.

Certainly a day to go into the memory banks as one of the best.

Dai Yamanoi visiting famous japanese flyfisherman with a fine Goldie sight cast to on the Roberts creek flats











Dai's freind, Mr Imai with a tea leaf trevally. Both of these fine japanese anglers have vowed to return to Weipa next year!