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This is a weekly report from
Weipa, FNQ, Australia
by Dave Donald's Sportfish Guiding Service.

Week Ending: 6 to 20 May, 2006

Weather : The wet weather has finally cleared and the dry season south east trade winds are here! Winds averaged 10 to 15 knots for the first week getting a bit stronger (15 to 20) for the second week.

Fishing Methods: Lure casting, fly casting, trolling, live baiting

Clients Details: Michael and Ross from Melbourne, Dale and party from country Victoria, Woody and the doctors from Brisbane, Bert and boys from Melbourne.

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Species Landed: Barramundi, mangrove jack, fingermark, queenfish (3 species), king threadfin salmon, blue salmon, steelback salmon, golden trevally, tea leaf trevally, brassy trevally, giant trevally, fringe finned trevally, tilley trevally, gold spot estuary cod, black spot estuary cod, barracuda, doggie mackerel, narrow barred spanish mackerel, broad barred Spanish mackerel, longtail tuna, cobia, black jew, giant herring, pikey bream, coral trout, sweetlip, stripey, wire netting cod, black cod, tusk fish, small mouth nannygai, large mouth nannygai, red emperor, long finned snapper, remora, grunter, tomato cod, dart, archer fish, tarpon, catfish (2 species), shark (3 species), ray, longtom, wolf herring. (48 species).

Sighted: dolphin, dugong, rays, manta rays, sharks, turtles, sea snakes.

Crocodiles Sighted: Plenty starting to show, best day 19

Report:

This fortnight saw a huge list of species with Michael and Ross raising 38 on lures, mainly while jigging offshore, and the doctors reported a massive 45 species from their 5 days!

It just goes to show the fantastic diversity of species available in the local rivers and Gulf. The run-off from the late wet season has seen the best barra action in the rivers that I’ve witnessed for at least a couple of years with heaps of barra ‘boofing’ bait in many areas, particularly on the last of the run out tide.

We’ve had some great barra action in the Hey, Embley and Pine, with 3 of the lure casters from the doctors group scoring around 35 barra, 8 jacks and plenty of archer fish during a hectic session early last week. A couple of big salty barra were taken along the foreshores, the best going 96cm. The mangrove jacks have been taking a few lures home with them, with most of the fish measuring from low to high 40’s.

We’ve also had some great sessions on blue and king salmon, particularly on live bait, with the best kingies going 90cms plus. The offshore scene is bubbling along steadily but should go ballistic at any time. Still, some of the action has been frantic with tuna, mackerel, queenfish and trevally getting stuck into the bait schools.

On some days, the sharks have been eating 8kg tuna and 15kg Spanish mackerel like lollypops and the lure losses have been well into double figures per boat. But we’ve managed to keep most parties supplied with plenty of tuna sashimi and beer battered mackerel when required. Good numbers of cobia have been landed, a couple of the best around the 20 kilo mark, with a couple of big ones eaten by sharks.

The cobes have continued to snavel big soft plastics with 3 being hooked in quick time off the bottom at one particular location. Some massive queenfish, up to 14 kilos, have been biting on trolled lures, jigs and cast poppers closer inshore. Queenies of this size are very hard work and their jumps spectacular.

Poppers have also raised a couple of mega GT’s (they’re still swimming!) and even a big Spaniard around the 15kg mark. The inshore reefs have been teeming with small mackerel plus plenty of estuary cod, coral trout, stripeys and fingermark.

Michael and Ross brought their heavy jig gear and landed an impressive array of big fish but were still beaten by some that didn’t want to play the game. Their tackle boxes were much lighter on the way home! So it’s been a couple of very busy weeks up this way with big smiles the order of the day.

I did hear a couple of return clients talking about having their best fishing trip EVER, and that’s the results we like to provide!

BarraDave Donald,
Dave Donald SPORTFISHING

 
     
 

 

Trevas/Jacks that take two to hold up, this is your kind of place !

Mighty nice Cobia by the good Captain Dave, your guide.

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