A Week in Weipa

[Wyoming]

I guess it was OK if you like catching BIG fish and dining every night on big, fresh muddies....

What a blast it was. I stayed with a mate in the caravan park cabins and we met two of our traveling mates (the brothers O'Halloran) who provided their tinnie that we managed to fish from using a morning / afternoon shift. On the first cast of the first day, I caught the biggest fish of the trip, landing a nice GT that kept me occupied for a good 20 minutes on light fishing gear and a frozen prawn. Each day we caught plenty - Grunters, salmon, king salmon, shark and muddies, all out of the Mission River.

We bait fished nearly all the time but we took time to troll lures and spin but we found this fairly ordinary while the fresh and frozen prawns were really productive. I used a running sinker, then a 50 lb mono trace with a sure-catch hook and I got many more than the other blokes who insisted on using a wire trace. The mono worked well as long as I discarded pieces that got damaged on rock, coral and piscatorial teeth, but I do admit to losing a couple.

One of the guys who had been there the previous week told us of a splashy racket they heard and on closer investigation, they found a humungous crocky wrestling with a shark that it had a firm grip on. Quite a fight apparently and it was all captured on video.

Apart from the bragging-type fish, the ubiquitous catfish was present and I was talking to a bloke fishing from the bank who caught one and tossed it up on the bank. A split second later, a huge beautiful sea eagle swooped onto it, picked it off the ground and took off with it in its talons - all in the blink of an eye!

[kleiny]

SOUNDS like you had a great time, a good read to.
kleiny

[devocean]

No barra?

[eggbeater]

Thats great news mate as im heading to the cape next week for a 4 week trip, and Weipa is one of my destinations for a stay

[tetra]

Weipa's the place for fishing all right.

[Wyoming]

I forgot to mention - the caravan park is a pearler! We stayed in cabins that were really well decked out with a telly (that didn't get State of Origin), air-con and so on.

Only problem was a group of Melbourne blokes who remained totally pst and loud at nights for an entire week. Absolutely inconsiderate turds, I mean nobody has a problem with drinking beer till you fall over, but every night?? keeping everyone awake night after night?? Am I getting old?

No - no barra I'm afraid, but on the last day, one of the guys was trolling, and he saw a barra fishing for poddy mullet, so he grabbed his rod with a bomber on it and tossed it at the spot he saw the fish. He immediately hooked up! That was the only barra that I know of being taken during the period we were there.