Where to fish at Airlie Beach?

[kc]

Friday is looking OK but Saturday/Sunday it's blowing its arse out again. Cones is loaded with Grey Macks (good fish too. plenty of 8 or 9 kg) and a few early Spanish. Will be rough.

Around Airlie itself there are a lot of big Blue Salmon, up to 8kgs and some doggies and spotties at the "wreck".

The lee of Hook and dolphin point on Hayman will offer some protection but still going to be a rough ride over the passage

Worse comes to worst go get a feed of seafood at Fish D'Vine & The Rum Bar on the Esplanade and say hi. Treat the missus and the "views" can be spectacular.....and hey...it's hardly your fault if they are just walking past

Good luck. Better you than me this weekend

KC

[plaztix]

Thanks KC. The weathers not looking to crash hot. Typical

The boss and i are keen no matter what and the 5.5 would handle almost anything by the looks of it but not real sure about the women.

Will play it by ear and see what the wind does.

You say Blue salmon are on around airlie itself. where abouts cause sticking close to shore might be the go with the SE. Where is the 'wreck' ?

Might see you at the rum bar.

[gogetter]

I don't mind sharing one of my spots. Afterall I am now in Cairns. There are many great spots to fish in the Whitsundays. A sure fire way to get trout is to troll a lure to the side of any bombie.I found they love the gold reidies rattlers with the tiger stripes.

CT's are ambush feeders and trolling around the edges of any of the islands will produce good fish.


Anyway my point was that sending people to Double Cones is a little mean. It isn't that productive by comparison to the outer islands. It also gets weathered badly. If you a really sending this guy to the cones to catch fish then you haven't fished all around the other islands like you claim.


Also claiming to bag out on lipper in the middle of the day is a little dishonest. When did you ever bag out on lipper in the middle of the day. Even on the reef they come on after dark.

snatch,

one of the best places to catch a good size mac is around the cones around daylight and on dark and that is what he is after!!!!!
. snatch my freind you are dillusional!!! when did i say i was sending him anywhere!!! i merely made coments on some spots that he can catch macs and trout. the cones is closer than the outer islands and if the weather is ok its a great run for some great macs.

snatch, when did i state that i bagged out in the middle of the day. please read and understand before you care you make a comment. and for your info i have caught plenty of lipper throughout the day and if i can catch them anyone can...

and if you have fished so many spots around the whitsundays and now are living in cairns why cant you give this guy a better spot than the obvious. also with the winds this weekend if you know the area as good as you make out why not send him to a better spot as if the winds stay more southerly it will be ripping along that edge of hook.... oh and if you are talking about nara inlet mate, they are perdicting 20 to 25 knots s/se winds and i think you will find little shelter in nara. also as you should know snatch that in those winds the whitsunday passage can get fiarly rough and it is a long way to come back from hook to able... now thats what i call mean sending him that way in those winds... off north mole gets pretty nasty. at least from the cones its not far across to grimson...you stated "trust me".... well i dout it, i was told many years ago never to trust a person who says trust me...

cheers

[plaztix]

Boat hire company wouldn't hire due to high winds and insurance blah blah

Had a ball anyway.

Thanks for the heads up on the rum bar KC, sampled many of the 103 different types of rum. Too many i think