Creeks and Offshore On Fire

The creeks have fired up with good numbers and sizes of just about every thing - barramundi, mangrove jack, threadfin salmon, cods and Queensland gropers, just to name a few. We have been catching them on a mixture of live bait, hard-body lures and the odd soft plastic. Off-shore there still continues to be plenty of good size Spanish mackerel, tuna, giant trevally and cobia - with a few small bait balls thrown in as well.

''Living the Dream''

Just finished a 7 day father and son trip. We had an absolute ball - swimming, fishing, and eating freshly-caught fish on the beach for lunch!!!

This particular morning there were more Spanish mackerel and cobia than you could poke a stick at!

At times all you had to do was simply throw the lure in the water and wind back quickly.

The young fella's showing us how it's done - plenty of trout this week.

This is what the coral trout turned into later that day - freshly-cooked coral trout on the beach!

Broken rod, broken lure, broken ego

Williamson jig claims another one

Pretty excited!!!!!!!

Good Queenfish

Solid bludger trevally taken on a Gulp 7 inch Jerk shad

Hooked straight in the schnozz!

Boyd Bay at lunch time

Solid coral trout on the 7 inch Gulp

Even the kids got stuck into the cobia!!

Lunch time swimming - check out the weather!!

Cobia on a Bucktail.

Coral trout on Bucktail

A big Queensland groper wrestled from the mangroves on 15lb line by a 11 year old angler!!!!

''Crocker and Co''

Well, the 2011 season has kicked off, and first cab off the rank is Shane Crocker, with Anne, Harry and Matty, who all fished with me in November last year. They have returned for another crack at Weipa's river fishing, and second time around it has produced  plenty of solid fingermarks up to 55cm, some awesome Mangrove Jack fishing, as well as some big barra and threadfin salmon. The barramundi have not been around in numbers but the ones that have been caught have been ''nice'' ones. I have been playing around with my shiny new camera lens trying to get some action shots - not perfect - but hope you like some of my pics.

Looks Promising !!!!!!!!!!

Well the season is about to kick off, and from what has been seen from pre-season fishing, things are looking good for 2011. There are plenty of pelagics around including small mackerel, big GTs, tuna and cobia, as well as the odd fingermark. There have been a few manta-rays on the beaches, loaded with cobia and golden trevally, as the pics will show. Also, there are a few pics of us having some fun catching tuna and big bull sharks amongst a bait ball.
Looking forward to a big 2011!!!!!!!!!!!!!!