Pancake Nostalgia

[Smithy]

The awesom oyster covered rocks at the start of Jenny Lind.

[Smithy]

The lighthouse.

[Smithy]

Bustard head from sea with Middle Rocks just in the picture.

[Smithy]

The caretakers cottage.

[Smithy]

A Spanish Mackerel Fishermen's Mecca - Outer Rock! Straight out of 32m. One rock that is more awesome is Nares Rock off Bowen.

[Smithy]

The pink Duck running around Jenny Lind on low tide.

[agnes_jack]

Awsome
Some good shots there Smithy!
How long ago did you first visit Pancake?

Tony

[mackmauler]

nice pics, heard back in the 60s there was a permanent resident of pancake.

The school macs were trying to eat us out of the boat this trip, rolling lures out of chip packets worked well. there is a reasonable population of steel back salmon up the creek, good fun between flatties if the winds up, never get sick of that place

[Smithy]

Tony,

first trip would have been '94 then probably every school holidays from around '95/'96/'97 or so. The bloke I used to go up there with was a school teacher from Bundy. He had been going there for 20 years before that and would have over 30 years experience up there now. He mostly fishes Turkey these days with them getting rid of the shacks. In the early days they used to 4WD onto Rodds and camp on the north side of Pancake. The creek has changed a lot since then. All the sand bars on the north side cover heaps of rock like what it is on the south side. The coral in the creek is not how it used to be. They used to catch Red Throats and Trout well up the creek. Most common catch inside the creek would have been Slateys (Painted Sweetlip/Blackall). They used to go for the big summer Whiting but they have been netted to oblivion. Out of their old boats they only ever went as far as Jensens Rock and a bit further out as they caught all they needed. It was only around the time I started going up we ventured out to Middle and Outer. We had some good drifts worked out for the rocks using line-ups. Then GPS came on the scene and was more affordable and our horizons broadened.