A bit of a change of pace last week, I got together with a couple of guys I’ve worked with over the years on Gameboats and Cape York motherships and we hit the high seas.

Well the first few days the high seas where flat calm, “they can’t make it calm enough to scare me” quotes Tim Ryan, while up stairs Jim Bladin keeps a keen eye on a bait school we’re heading for.
This was the result.

One of the biggest Spanish Mackeral any of us had seen, Yellow Fin Tuna galore and plenty of small Spanish and Shark Mackeral.
Throw in a few Mack Tuna and a couple missed bites off Marlin and that was the first day, which was mirrored through the remainder of the trip, except for a few sessions of GT popper fishing where at times we where beating them off with sticks, coming thick and fast in packs of 3 & 4 to each popper. All this had the clients leaving with big smiles and aching arms.

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Returning from two weeks at Cape York just in time to get another chapter ready, Bill is returning from the States to chase Black Marlin amongst other critters over the next 5 days. I’ll post a quick report after that, should be fun.

The Cape was fishing a little patchy for this year, still plenty of fish but we had to shift around to find consistant fishing, the quality of the fish was good and when they decided it was play time the action was hot. Sight fishing Barramundi & Threadfin Salmon was a high light for me over the last two weeks.

Good fishing……

Had a couple of days out flyfishing this week, the weather was great, nice sunny days, which is what’s needed in winter to fire up the local Barramundi population.

Brett & Maurie started things off with a double hookup on Barramundi, one on fly, one on a lure. A fast and furious Barra session started the day off as it turned out quite a few different species of fish, Jacks, Trevally, Mackeral, Bream, Cod etc

Just today I was out with my good friend and fellow guide Nat Bromhead, we intended to just fish a couple of hours. A nice easy start 10am and straight into Barramundi action, sighting several of the fish that we cast our flies to, by late lunch we called it a day and headed home. We had about 12-15 shots at Barramundi and caught a few Queenfish as well. A nice pleasant session for a guides day off.