Moffy
31-01-2006, 10:23 PM
Daintreeboy, another mate (adrian) and I went up the Daintree for 4 days over the Aussie Day long weekend (well once we took Friday off it was a long weekend)
ended up with a variety of fish despite the flooded river.
Thursday saw Adrian's wife Sian along for the ride to check out the river itself. Despite the flood waters (the river was high and brown at the ramp), we still managed to find all the live bait we wanted and settled in at one of our favourite spots.
A solid hit shortly after was lost before colour could be seen, but was followed up with a nice Golden Trevally which snaffled the live sardine and gave Daintree Boy a good run before coming to the boat.
Things then turned quiet and we soon had to return to the ramp so Adrian could drop Sian back to the cairns airport.
That night was flat calm so we decided to head out to our favourite Fingermark spot to have a crack at a few - on arrival the live squid came to the light very quickly and we soon had quality baits on the bottom. after a couple of small shifts to move away from the pickers that kept destroying our baits, we managed to nail we middling size fingermark of about 3kg each.
a little later on, I scored with an estimated 8 kg thumper (81 cm)
the late night meant an late start the next morning and other than an incidental barra that was dropped boatside and a nice jack that pulled the hooks close to the boat, not much more action happened the next day- it had been a very different day on the river, with live bait very hard to come by.
next day we planned on pulling the pots and heading home (we'd been camped in on of the huts on the river), but on seeing the glassy conditions outside, headed out to snapper island for a looksee.
the aim of the day was to nail a nice spanish mackeral, which Adrian succeeded in doing after a mere 5 minutes. unfortunately that was to be the last fish of the day, which was very strange given that the mackeral were smashing bait all around us and even spearing out of the water on numerous occassions. we even trolled a spread of 5 lures, deep, shallow and popper, but could not get them to hit.
we tried again the next day, but although the run out was on a flat sea, the winde blew up within 15 minutes of our arrival and looked to be set in, I did manage a nice Trout though.
with the trough line right above us the weather was all over the place, and once back in through the daintree heads the sely had been pushed back by a strong nwly - not the easiest of fishing conditions.
we had a ball though and caught some nice fish achieving everything we set out to do.
some photos to follow.
(golden Trevally)
ended up with a variety of fish despite the flooded river.
Thursday saw Adrian's wife Sian along for the ride to check out the river itself. Despite the flood waters (the river was high and brown at the ramp), we still managed to find all the live bait we wanted and settled in at one of our favourite spots.
A solid hit shortly after was lost before colour could be seen, but was followed up with a nice Golden Trevally which snaffled the live sardine and gave Daintree Boy a good run before coming to the boat.
Things then turned quiet and we soon had to return to the ramp so Adrian could drop Sian back to the cairns airport.
That night was flat calm so we decided to head out to our favourite Fingermark spot to have a crack at a few - on arrival the live squid came to the light very quickly and we soon had quality baits on the bottom. after a couple of small shifts to move away from the pickers that kept destroying our baits, we managed to nail we middling size fingermark of about 3kg each.
a little later on, I scored with an estimated 8 kg thumper (81 cm)
the late night meant an late start the next morning and other than an incidental barra that was dropped boatside and a nice jack that pulled the hooks close to the boat, not much more action happened the next day- it had been a very different day on the river, with live bait very hard to come by.
next day we planned on pulling the pots and heading home (we'd been camped in on of the huts on the river), but on seeing the glassy conditions outside, headed out to snapper island for a looksee.
the aim of the day was to nail a nice spanish mackeral, which Adrian succeeded in doing after a mere 5 minutes. unfortunately that was to be the last fish of the day, which was very strange given that the mackeral were smashing bait all around us and even spearing out of the water on numerous occassions. we even trolled a spread of 5 lures, deep, shallow and popper, but could not get them to hit.
we tried again the next day, but although the run out was on a flat sea, the winde blew up within 15 minutes of our arrival and looked to be set in, I did manage a nice Trout though.
with the trough line right above us the weather was all over the place, and once back in through the daintree heads the sely had been pushed back by a strong nwly - not the easiest of fishing conditions.
we had a ball though and caught some nice fish achieving everything we set out to do.
some photos to follow.
(golden Trevally)