frangkie Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 (edited) just got back from a couple of weeks fishing in north qld. we fished a few places between port douglas and townsville both estuary and reef and had a great time. the wind was up for most of the holiday but we were foryunate to score the last few days with light winds. this enabled us to get out to the reef and search for our number one target gt's. the barra and fingermark were caught in the daintree river. the barra was caught on a lipless crankbait and the fingermark on a live herring. the estuary fishing was a little quiet with a long time between bites but still a great place to fish and relax. here is my mate garth with a nice golden trev that he jiged up next to a fringing reef. our camp was right in front of the boat just back from the beach we spent a few days camped on one of the palm islands which was like paradise, we had our own beach and jetty to tie up to and fringing reef with live coral to snorkel in and fish around. unfortunately the wind was up a little so we stayed on the calm side of the islands to fish. the fishing was still fun though and we caught stacks of mac tuna, small gt's ang a heap of assorted cods, wrasse and trout. the last two days of the trip saw most of the action occur with calm winds allowing us to fish some of the reefs off townsville. we got stuck into some gt's around twenty in two days ranging from 10kg to aroung 20kg we also got a couple of spanish mackeral and all on poppers and stick baits. we had an absolute ball! this spaniard was caught on one of my home made poppers, it jumped out of the water with it in it's mouthabout sixfoot high and 15ft sideways. Edited November 9, 2008 by frangkie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squid hunter Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 beauuuuuuuutiful mate great looking trip regards Squid Hunter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taloyoak Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 So why didn't you ask me to come with you guys.... Man that GT looks awesome. My mission in life is to catch GT's like that on fly you lucky bastards..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robeebee Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 WOW great pics mate looks like a top trip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobbitt Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 Wow, those pics just look fan bloody tastic, bet ya couldn't wait to come home from that place. NOT. Great report, great pics and a great time had by all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frangkie Posted November 10, 2008 Author Share Posted November 10, 2008 (edited) Wow, those pics just look fan bloody tastic, bet ya couldn't wait to come home from that place. NOT. Great report, great pics and a great time had by all. yes cant say i'm too happy to be home, being back to work and all the rest of it. Edited November 10, 2008 by frangkie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewgaffer Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Top report Alex It looks like you enjoyed yourself up there. I know you also get plenty of action back home in Brisbane. I like the console boat. Cheers Byron PS Give me a call Alec I've lost your contact number and Barker's as well . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hodgey Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Great report and awesome photos mate! Hodgey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh88 Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Looks like a great trip mate. Good photos with some great fish, i like the big mack, love watching their surface strikes, always so aggressive Cheers Josh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barker Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 (edited) franga, nothin much to say about all that..... you filthy finks. good onya mate. how good is catching anything on a home made let alone that beast. good lookin boat, is it one of those legendmarine dory's with a console? well done mate. Edited November 12, 2008 by barker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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