Fishing North Queensland

The mighty BARRA, large, handsome, lure smashing, spectacular fighter, Australia's greatest sportfish is a must for every 'hardcore' fisho.
 
Whether casting lures around mangrove lined tropical estuaries, or trolling lures along the lily pads of a primeval billabong an encounter
with a large tail walking Barramundi quickens the pulse and throws out an exciting challenge that never fails to impress and leaves every fisherman humbled but richer for the experience.
 
Venture up the Burdekin a superb river full of fish,well known for 120cm Barra, Mangrove Jacks, stacks of Fingermark Beam, schools of
Threadfin Salmon, big mud crabs and huge Estuary Cod. Fantastic exhilarating fishing.
 
The Burdekin River can rise 12 metres in the wet season flooding the vast floodplain connecting creeks to many perennial billabongs that become home to the millions of fish fry that have spawned at the mouths of rivers and creeks.
 
The Burdekin flood plain experiences 1000mm rain fall per year and sits on a huge underground lake 10 metres below the surface  40 times the amount of water in Sydney harbour.
 
The nation's keenest anglers flock to the annual Barra Rush held in March one of the biggest fishing fishing competitions in the North.
 
This is exciting fishing highly visual, on the right tide every hole produces a bite, pretty hot fishing here, Catch some great fish.
 
Exhilarating lure casting with devastating effect with B52's being slammed every time.
 
Concentrate on the headlands, creek mouths and estuaries. Pristine deep channels between the mangroves broken up with fantastic snags,overhanging shade and bankside structure the fishiest bit of water to excite any keen fisho.
 
Comfortable and enjoyable fishing.
 
We prefer to fish the estuaries on the last half of the run out and first half of the run in tides during the weeks of the full and new moons.
Catching live bait Nippers (yabbies) with hand pumps and prawns with a cast net.
 
The billabongs are best early in the morning and late afternoon.
 
You need a large dark coloured hat, polarised sunglasses, hard soled plastic shoes (Crocs) for wadding in the shallow sand flats casting ahead of cruising feeding fish can produce some spectacular fishing.

Bay and Blue water Reef fishing

The offshore reef fishing provides great opportunities to experience solid lockups, head down rough and tough battles with the various
big strong, aggressive tropical reef fish where you just hang on and hope you can fight it to a standstill, struggling with emotions of achievement, elation and a touch of sadness when you have killed a mighty fish.
 
The continuos Great Barrier Reef lying down the coast 60 km offshore usually provides smooth calm seas for us to fish the closer reefs
( 10km) and shoals within two huge bays, Cape Upstart and Bowling Green.
 
On a good day the water is clear enough to see the fish swimming below the boat. Red emperor, Coral trout, Fingermark, Golden trevally, School and Spanish mackerel to name a few of these angry fighters.
 
Live the dream come fishing up north.

Mangrove Jack

Weigh in at Fishing Comp.	Jame's First Barra
Succulent Mud Crabs	Mangrove Creek
Freshwater Lagoon	Elizebeth's 70cm Flathead

The fishing is near the deer hunting property but 4 hours drive away from the pig hunting area.