Exciting Trip for Brynn

My son Brynn visited for a week to see the family before Xmas and to get in a bit of fishing while he was here.

Although I am still supposed to be laid up after my operation I decided to take my boat out with Notso, Kristy and Brynn.

We caught a half of dozen tuna and a couple of Spaniards before hooking up a nice marlin of around 140lb.

Brynn had the marlin alongside for a couple of pics within 50 min and ended his Weipa trip on a high and what a xmas present.

This was Brynn's first ever marlin, and did a great angling job to land it.

The marlin was released to fight again and we got some great video and pics.

Merry Xmas to ALL

I would just like to wish all of my clients a very Merry Xmas and hope to see you all in the New Year.

I have just had my hernia operation and am feeling a little sore at present and worst of all can't go fishing for a week or so, there fore don't have a lot to report.

I will however have something for you straight after the New year celebrations.

Just for something to think about here's a pic of Nic Jooste and his fly caught bull shark

R & D

Just what does a fishing guide do on his days off?? Research of course (well, fishing anyway). This pic is of a permit I found recently mooching along the beach (look closely - tail and dorsal out of the water). Alas - there is no photo of me holding it! The fish seemed pre occupied on whatever it was doing and never seemed to acknowlege the crab fly I had - maybe I found a blind permit! Anyway, that's why they're high up the hard to catch ladder. Kristy was with me for the day and we enjoyed some nice weather, caught a coral trout for tea, a decent queenie on light spin gear, played with a mantaray and found a couple of barras.

Marlin to Manta Rays

Hi all, Well I'm back from another Cairns marlin season and already have slipped a quick charter in back here in Weipa. This year I had Lee who guided with us for some of the season here in Weipa on the deck. As you can see from the picture, marlin like to get up close and personal at times! Luckily Lee (LuckyLee??) got out of the way of this 750lb fish, using the tag pole to fend off and tag the fish at the same time. The season turned out to be the slowest in years, altough there was still some great fish to be caught, although cyclone Guba ended it a little early for me.





Last week I had Bill and his son Alex, both from Sydney fish with me for the week. They had a great week with lots of fly targets including small queenies, goldies, giant herring, small queenies, small mackerel (even had a 30lb fish almost jump in the boat in the harbour), barras, manta ray action and, did I mention the small queenies. Huge volumes of jelly prawns were the food supply along many of the beaches which attracted most of these fish. Well, some more time off, so its R & D for a while, but stay tuned for the results!! NOTSO