The fishing in the last month has been good with lots of Spaniard's nice queenies when the weather is good the wide reefs have had good trevally and up the rivers the fingermark fishing is great on the jigs. Late July the Weipa fishing challenge was held I caught this 83cm barra and lots of fingermark on the first day. The second day Linda and I went down the coast and caught lots of reef fish and macks non of which were big enough. Wining sizes Barra photo graphed and released 100cm mackerl 10kg queenie 6.8kg trevally10.4kg grunter 3.3kg fingermark4.5kg and reef fish(nanigie) 6.2kg. If the fishing stays as good for the next month I will be happy, with the water warming it should get better.

Damian and Mario one night were sitting around with the guys of Notsos boat, after lots of scotch they decided to have a bet on the biggest fish caught the next day. At 9.30 Damian caught this large Queensland Groper and we new we had it in the bag. The other boat in a different river caught some nice fish with the biggest a 78cn barra but when the photos were shown they payed up and drank more scotch.

On my days of I still get to go fishing with the family and when the tides are perfict. When the tide is low in the middle of the day I can have my sleep in and still take the girls fishing in the prime time. 78cm and 67cm two of a bunch of barra we caught in a three houre fish not far from the boat ramp.

Steve Huff Visit

Steve Huff and Fish with a fine fly caught barra caught on Steve's Weipa visit



During late July I had the pleasure of guiding one of the worlds famous guides.

Steve Huff was the guide that guided the late Del Brown onto almost all of his 513 fly caught permit.

Steve guides in the Florida everglades and is a great fly caster and fisherman. Guiding Steve on his australian visit was a great and most interesting experience.
I can't wait to take him up on his offer to guide me in Florida!

Winter in Weipa

Well winter has come and gone and we have had some filthy weather over the last few months.

The fishing however has been pretty good and ther have been plenty of the larger pelagics on the bite.

The mackerel have been thick although ther are always casualties with the sharks also being thick.

Some day's you can manage to evade them and land a good percentage of your hookups.

Check out Maurie Mariani's fine Mack caught on a Shimano bullwhip baitcaster and Shimano 2 speed beastmaster, not a bad effort. The fish measured 134cm and managed to outrun the 9ft bullshark that was hot on it's tail.

Pete Leemon and his big queenie caught on fly on his first saltwater fly fishing experience.