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COMPILED WEEKLY BY GARRY SMITH IN CAIRNS:
e-mail: lavallesmith@iig.com.au
Gold Coast
The weather has been pretty good on the Gold Coast over the past week. Plenty of anglers have taken advantage of this to head both offshore and into the rivers.

Pelagics have dominated the offshore seen over the past couple of weeks. There have been good numbers of small marlin up and down the coast with most of the fish in the 50 to 100kg bracket. Trolling skirts or slow trolling live slimie mackerel has been very effective anywhere between the 12 fathom mark and the 36s. There have also been quite a few yellowfin tuna and dolphinfish off Southport for those trolling small skirts and minnows.

Palm Beach and Mermaid have been fishing well for both spotty and Spanish mackerel as well as the odd cobia. The fish have been coming on the chew early in the mornings and are taking pilchards, metal lures and trolled minnows or small skirts. The Tweed Nine Mile has also had some hot fishing with Spanish mackerel, wahoo, yallowfin tuna, giant trevally, kingfish and marlin all falling to trolled lures during the week.

The bottom fishing has been fair on the 36 and 50 fathom reefs with a few nice squire, parrotfish and pearl perch landed this week. Best baits were squid and fresh fish strips. Jigging continues to be popular along the 50 fathom line and has produced some good kingies and amberjack.

The estuaries have also been fishing exceptionally well with some good mangrove jack taken during the week. These fish succumbed to trolled deep diving minnows, live baits and dead baits. A lot of good fish have been taken in the canals so don’t rule these areas out when chasing jacks. Poppers are also an exciting way to target jacks when they’re feeding on the surface. Most of the rock bars and major structure in the Nerang and Tweed Rivers have been holding a few jacks along with some nice trevally and a few estuary cod. Tarpon have also been taken in the upper reaches of the Nerang on small soft plastics and flies.

Bait fishing the main reaches of the rivers on the incoming tide has been producing some big whiting along with quite a few nice bream. Fresh bait is the key to a good catch and yabbies, wriggler worms, shrimp and soldier crabs have all been working well.

The Seaway has been very busy with large numbers of boats working the north wall most mornings. The south wall is a good alternative as many good fish are also taken here. Some good bream, trevally and tailor have fallen to whitebait, pilchards and metal lures along both walls. The end of the north wall has produced some good jacks, trevally and jewfish on the outgoing tide using live mullet or herring. Kingfish have been taken from the pipeline and the Wavebreak Island rock walls on live baits, soft plastic, stick baits and flies. There have been queenfish and tarpon working on the surface most mornings and these fish will usually fall for a small metal lure or baitfish profile fly.

The beaches have been fishing fairly slowly with plenty of swimmers and surfers still around. The deeper gutters at the northern end of the coast were the best bet with some nice bream and tarwhine falling to frogmouth pilchards or beachworms. The shallow gutters and holes have contained a few nice whiting and plenty of dart for those fishing worms or pippies at the crack of dawn.

Hinze Dam has been fishing nicely with some good bass taken throughout the week. Plenty of fishing has been done in the shallows with surface lures and flies and some good bass up to 40cm were produced in these areas. Early in the morning was the best time although there were a few active bass in the hot afternoons. In the deeper water there have been some larger bass schooling up but they have been reluctant to take a lure or bait. Try deep diving minnows or a lightly weighted soft plastic grub to entice these wary fish. The odd yellowbelly was caught on deep diving lures throughout the week around the points and steep banks.

John Polson & Paul Revie
The Fisherman Pty Ltd
Sporty's Warehouse
32 Strathaird Rd. Surfers Paradise
Gold Coast. QLD 4217
Australia
Phone: +61 7 5531 6511
Mobile: +61 418 751220
www.thefisherman.com.au

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Moreton Bay
There is still some good numbers of mackerel being caught around the bay and it seems as if every angler has a story of schools encountered and slugs lost. It never ceases to amaze me how many slugs some anglers lose, usually because they cast into the centre of the school or allow the slug to sink before winding. The best option is to start winding just before the slug lands on the water, that way it will already be moving when it lands, which decreases the chance of being bitten off.

A few longtails have been sighted also with good schools around the Lucinda Bay area. I managed to hook one on a dead gar last week out from Mud Island. I have never caught a longtail on dead bait before, but even more unusual was the fact that the bait was on quite thick wire, meant for shark fishing.

A few good snapper have been caught around the shallow rubble patches on the eastern side of Mud and St.Helena. Most of those that I have heard of were caught on soft plastics fished along the bottom.

Good numbers of whiting have been caught along the banks up in the Rous Channel and other popular spots such as the Blue Hole, Days Gutter, Browns Gutter and the Maroom and Amity Banks. Live worms are the natural choice for quality fish but thin strips of squid will also work a treat at times. You are best to just drift around as you are more likely to encounter the whiting which usually travel in schools.

There are a few flathead around the foreshore at Redcliffe, especially during the darkened hours. Scotts Point has been fishing well for bream for those anglers who want to cast baits, lures and flies over the shallow rocky ledges at night on a rising tide.

An occasional longtail and cobia is still being caught on live baits around the beacons in the northern bay. A live school mackerel can make a great live bait at this time of the year as the cobia often follow the schools into the bay and they will have no hesitation in eating more than 50 cm of mackerel in a single bite.

Not a lot of reports from the Jumpinpin area, however one can only assume that there are still good numbers of flathead, whiting and bream being caught, as is usually the case.

May your bait be nervous.

Gordon Macdonald
Tackle Warehouse
Ph. (07) 3398 6500
masterbaitertackle@hotmail.com

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Moreton Bay - Wide
Happy New Year to all our fishing readers. Forget fishing for a moment, because every Queensland politician has. The major threats to our fishery in 2005 are not the pros, but the pollies who believe there are more Green votes than Fishing votes. Be ever vigilant and obnoxious to those who believe the tomato is the most sacrosanct of all species.

Fishing has been brilliant. Marlin, and all things piscatorial that respond to a trolled lure, have been there for the taking off Cape Moreton. Some days have been better than others but the chances of taking a trophy fish are there every day. We trolled up some striped tuna among some free-jumping little black marlin (30+kg) on Friday but unfortunately the weather has not allowed us to fish since.

Also on Friday we caught on the BAY-BEE a swag of great mixed reef fish, including squire, coral bream, moses perch, cod to 15kg, hussar, fusilier and red throats. Be careful on the shallow reefs at the moment to only take what you need as the fish are prolific and feeding on anything that hits the water. Enjoy your fishing but be careful to keep an eye on your local pollie, because if he hears what should be saved, only from American funded Green Groups, he will not know what his voters and Aussies really think.

Regards,

Keith Hall
INCREDIBLE CHARTERS
20 Courageous Ct,
Scarborough 4020
Tel: 3203 8188
Fax: 3203 8199
incrediblecharters@bigpond.com

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Southern Freshwater
2005. It gets away from you, doesn’t it? With all the Chrissie/New Years parties with family and friends. I have to say the fishing gear was badly neglected for the last few weeks.

We’d hatched a plan weeks ago that rain, hail or shine, fishing for cod in the Dumaresq River would be a good wind down before returning to work. After talking to a bloke at Bonshaw we arrived at a perfect little spot complete with rough looking ‘boat ramp’, and resident goanna. Now, telling you the exact location is like knowing the Lone Ranger’s name – it’s not important. There are plenty of good sites around there if you want to explore.

The river was still up a bit (and discoloured) but the shrimp and yabbies were havin’ a ball over the recently covered ground. We had more than enough bait from the traps. Worms from my vegie garden were also taken.

Trolling for a while seemed to be the best bet, while we checked out ‘the lay of the land’. In the hot, humid morning of the 2nd, my black and gold Stumpjumper produced a picture perfect young cod. Paul changed lures to match mine and over the next few hours we both had good hits. Then the action died.

We came in for lunch and drinks, deciding on bait fishing for the arvo. Tying up to a good snag, we fished around it for a while before I landed a carbon copy of my first cod. This time caught bobbing around with a live yabby. We both had other hits throughout the arvo, but no fish. Then, again the action died.

The following day saw us trying everything and every snag with no success, until I nailed a nice jewie on shrimp just above some running water. The next day was spent doing much the same as well as exploring upriver a bit. The action was completely dead this day. Why? Everyone has their theories, from barometric changes, to moon phases, to temp variations. Over the next few months I reckon this river will absolutely hammer with cod.

Our special equation was simply curiosity + cod (outdoors/2dogs) beer food 2 hahaha

We’ll be shark fishing in the Brissy River next weekend. I’ll let you know how it goes.

Rob Clouten & Paul Cass
Fishin Essentials



Peter Taylor
Mullet Gut Marine
Ph (07) 4632 9770
Fax (07) 4639 2543
mullet_gut@bigpond.com

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Lake Boondooma

Lance & Kristy Frahm
Lake Boondooma Kiosk
Open 7 days 8am-5pm.
Ph 07-41689694, fax is 07-41689691,
PO Box 24, PROSTON 4613.
lakeboondooma@wondaishire.com
Stop Tailor Netting - Phone (07) 3284 0043 or 0414 376 217
Bribie Is. & Caloundra
The past week has seen the action slow just ever so slightly for the outsiders but improve out of sight for those fishing the Pumicestone Passage. Bream up to just under the magic kilo mark have been belting baits of soft fish flesh or yabbies. I witnessed seven bream, (only three legal), caught in the space of ten minutes by a couple of old dogs down off the Caloundra Coastguard pontoon earlier in the week and even the kids were scoring big time.

Whiting are in small numbers and size within the shallow runs of the passage and are being captured using the traditional worms and yabbies. The muddies are providing a great feed for those who have set their pots lately. All that fresh has finally paid off. Most muddies are very full as you would expect at this time of the year. There are still a few flathead being captured with a couple from Melbourne happily releasing two over 60cm caught around the Cod Hole in the evening. Now that is pleasing to see!

Caloundra Wide has big sweetlip, snapper, parrot and cod, with the occasional pelagic showing its worth. We hit Murphy’s again through the week and although it was quiet we still managed a few nice squire and two beaut sweeties.

There are stacks of bait schools breaking the surface out there but most seem to be in close now, in and around the first channel marker out from Brays and around Currimundi Reef. The biggest problem with being so close is that everyone can access them and it gets a little hectic at times.

We had cobia and mackerel swimming around the boat on Wednesday and again we could not interest them at all. Barwon Banks, at the top of the hard, has been magic fishing over the past three weeks. Reported catches of big snapper, mackerel, mahi mahi and all the other reef species have flooded in. I saw a lovely red emperor caught out there last Sunday weighing in at over the 5 kg mark.

The beaches have provided a little fun for anglers when the northerlies stopped blowing. Dart and bream are the mainstays, with flathead, tailor and whiting an outside chance. Finding a really productive gutter along the run is a little hard but there are a couple around, along with some nice holes.

I have had over 20 e-mails so far during the break from anglers asking me where to find the fish and to help with locating bait fish. I have answered them all now and I wish you all good luck out there. Remember though, when all else fails, fish and chips cooked by someone else still makes the day even if the fish are not biting.

Enjoy yourselves!

Brad McKendrick
Raine & Horne - Caloundra (07) 5491 3555
Compiled by Brad McKendrick from local fisherman with local reports.
brad@caloundraproperty.com.au
Currimundi to Coolum
Hope you all had a great New Year’s period - eating, drinking and fishing. The weather was kind and the fish were here. It don't get no better and if I'm lucky my headache will be gone by February.

The Moolooaba River fished really well all last week, with a lot of trevally and bream being caught around the jetties, bridges and moorings. In the soft plastics, the Slider minnows have been especially deadly when dead drifted under the jetties in the blind canals. The best colours I've found have been white and pearl. A number of jacks have also been caught, especially on the big run outs. Live baits have accounted for most of the bigger fish. Some very big fish have been hooked around the ends of the rock walls - maybe sharks but could be anything. The only info I can give you is anglers couldn't stop what ever they were and they like live mullet!!

The inshore scene has been excellent with heaps of small mac tuna and frigates to play with. I've fished a lot of guys over the last week who really love chasing these little speedsters on their trout gear, both spin and fly. (5wt's or 2/3kg spin gear) Great fun! As far as flies go we're just using small #6, #4, #2 white minnows. The biggest thing is getting the fish to see your fly as there is so much bait in the area at the moment, and I think it's important to keep the fly thin with a small prominent eye. With slugs, the main sizes seem to be 7gm to 12gm, and as is usual a 6:1 or better retrieve rate is best.

Friday saw a complete glass-out offshore. Hopefully you all got out to appreciate it. I saw it from behind a counter after spending Thursday in torrential rain and Wednesday in howling north easterlies. The mackerel came on the chew at about 7.30 off Coolum and they were good quality fish too.

The beach has fished alright with some nice dart up along North Shore near Twin Waters. The quality is small but good fun for the kids as they eat just about anything. You'll see a few nice whiting here as well and they are mainly taken on worms and yabbies.

The bottom end of the Barwon Banks has been firing for nice quality snapper and pearl perch. It appears the rubble areas around the main reef have been best and pillies seem to be the bait. Don't forget to drop a floater or two as the really good fish are usually caught on the floater, either a whole pillie or maybe even a tuna strip.

Not much else to report. Catch you on the water,

Gavin

Gavin Platz
Tie ’N’ Fly Outfitters - Ph (07) 5444 0611
tienfly@sun.big.net.au
Northern Sunshine Coast

Davo's - (07) 5449 8099
www.fishingnoosa.com.au

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Hervey Bay

Wind, wind and more wind. As a result most action has been restricted to the rivers where flathead and salmon have made up the bulk of the catches. Crabs are about but have to be worked for.

Whiting are available off the beaches at daybreak and during the evening. This set of tides could fire them up.

If the wind drops try the shallow reefs off the top of Woody and in Gatakers Bay for trout and grass sweetlip.

Jim Sullivan
Fisherman's Corner - Ph (07) 4128 1022
fishcor@bigpond.net.au

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Bundaberg

Tim Mulhall / Matt Costar / Ben Shorten
Salty's Fishing Team
Salty's - Ph (07) 4153 4747
info@saltys.net

Brett Jones
Still Water Charters
stillwatercharters@yahoo.com.au
www.stillwatercharters.homestead.com

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Yeppoon

Back on deck after the Silly Season is over for another year.

The weather prognosis for the coming week isn't good. In fact it's positively terrible. So there's not much use trying to suggest where you might catch a fish. On top of that there are huge dark moon tides early in the week that will make finding a fish very difficult anyway.

However in Central Queensland the weather over the holiday break was nearly as good as it gets. The public holiday on Monday January 3 saw just about every trailer boat on the water. There wasn't a single vacant parking space anywhere at Rosslyn Bay and late starters had to park along the main drag.

Everyone who had a serious try at catching a fish seemed to be successful. Good reefies were taken out wide and the Keppel's fished surprisingly well too. Mackerel aren't thick this time of year, but there is the odd doggie around the Keppels and patches of Spanos out wider.

The estuaries fished okay early in the break, but once the tides neaped, they closed down. I heard that many punters took home a feed of muddies in the lead-up to Christmas.

I still can't find any whiting, but there are heaps of reasonable dart on the beaches. Fish the last couple of hours of the run in tide, with beach worms and yabbies the top baits.

The fresh flow in the Fitzroy River has almost stopped and there are quite a few king salmon poking around in the city reaches.

Pic is muggins with a decent Keppel Island grass sweetlip.

Kim Martin

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Stanage Bay
Howdy to all ye fishers from Stanage Bay, Shoalwater Bay, The Duke and Percy Islands,

We hope you all had the perfect weather we had for a few days up here. Well Santa did deliver some good catches of fish and crabs to us good people. The boats out on the reefs reported some great catches of reefies over Xmas. Good quality trout and sweeties made up a lot of the catch so all came in with a smile.

For those who stayed in the Sound the Jew Hole turned it on over Christmas. Catches of up to a dozen jew were reported, with most being released to fight another day. Heaviest weighed came in at a healthy 19kg.

Those that ventured up into the creeks and gutters were not disappointed either. Most dined on some very big muddies of up to 3kg. It was all a bit too much for us in the tackle shop, so it was in with a couple of pots and we scored a couple of crabs around the 2.5kg mark, which was a treat for dinner. So all in all, not too many sad fishing tales, apart from the ones that got away, over the Xmas/New Year period.

The road is in very good order, with the council giving it a grade just before Christmas. We have just had some good rain in the last few days so the crabs should maintain a very good presence in the coming months and if Christmas is any indication we should have a great season with the crabs.

For those of you planning a trip to the bay and require accommodation, please drop us a line as bookings for the first half of the year have been filling fast.

Until next time, keep reeling in the big ones and hope to see you up this way. For more info, grab a copy of the January issue of QFM for the article on The Untouched Stanage Bay.

Yours in fishing and crabbing
Von & Tony

Von Ann Ireland
stanagebaymarine@bigpond.com
www.stanagebay.com

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Mackay

Bruce Nash / Tony Lisciandro
Northside Fishing Centre - Ph (07) 4957 2272
Peter Faust Dam / Eungella Dam
Peter Faust Dam with Tony (Water Temp 26-29c)
On Tony's second day with me we headed to the dam for a bit of barra fishing. The water was glassy and soon after we arrived at the first spot we heard barra boofing on the surface. I commented that this was unusual behavior after sun-up. We watched in awe as barra after barra boofed, jumped and chased bait fish about 100 metres from us. Each time we tried to approach they moved. It was like the tuna all over again.
Then Tony hooked one. Only small but his first barra ever, so it was a good start. I was less lucky, for when I tried to extract the hook (with barbs still open) the little bugger jumped and stuck it right into my thumb. It took a bit of surgery and back yard tactics to get it out. Soon after, Tony hooked another fish. A good one this time, that went straight into the timber. A little mucking around, and 105cm of barra lay on the deck. The boofing around the boat continued. All we could do was watch as bait sprayed out of the water, followed by big black backs. I hooked a monster which stitched me up. One hundred and fifty metres of braid and some mono left the reel - no getting that one back.
For the finale, Tony had a 107cm barra boof the lure as he lifted it out of the water, and what a fight. More like a big GT than a barra. Have a look at the photo to see how far down the back treble went!!! A bit more surgery and taking off trebles and she swam off happy. What a top day!

Andy Thomsen (Fishing Guide)
www.andysfishing.com.au
0409 466 336

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Airlie Beach / Whitsundays
Saltwater with Tony
We couldn't have picked a better day to fish the ocean. It was a glass-out all morning. We first trolled for mackerel. We could see the little buggers (some up to four feet long) but couldn't hook them. Then we chased tuna for a while, but they turned out to be very elusive. So we headed for some rock to try for GT's and coral trout. We landed a few good GT's, with the biggest ones around 65-70cm, along with coral trout and stripies. In the shallows we saw three of the biggest stingrays I have ever seen. They would have been five feet across.

Andy Thomsen (Fishing Guide)
www.andysfishing.com.au
0409 466 336
Whitsundays - Bluewater

Capt. Ken Bryant
Marlin Blue Charters Ph 07 49465044

www.marlinblue.com.au

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Townsville

Tony Katsaros
Tackle World
Ph. 0747251266
tackleworldtsv@beyond.net.au

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Hinchinbrook
Hi Friends,

With the festive season now behind us many will be resuming normal activities with yours truly being no exception. Trying to balance work commitments while still managing some quality time with family and friends can be a bit of a chore. Lots of laughs and memories being revisited contributed to Christmas 04 being a real Crackerjack occasion.

My New Year’s resolution this year is to keep my reports informative, factual and to the point.
I honestly believe a “get real” approach will receive more creditability in the long term than content that may appear to be commercially driven.

Moving onto the current happenings at Lucinda and in Hinchinbrook Channel. There has been some reasonable falls of rain in the Herbert River catchment over the past week resulting in a slight rise and colour change in the river. With around three weeks to go before the opening of the 05 barra season let’s hope the rainy conditions will trigger meaningful spawning activities. On many occasions in past years the rains have not arrived in time before the season has opened, resulting in the harvesting of large numbers of potential breeding females.

On the fishing scene, over the holidays many anglers visited the reefs out of Lucinda and reported good catches of large mouth nannygai and red throat. Grey mackerel and queenfish have also been providing excitement around Hillock Point and Sunken Reef.

Up in the channel, the bigger new moon tides have made fishing in the strong current not an easy task. Having said that some good sized grunter are being landed out on the flats at high tide.

Water temperatures are normal for this time of the year, with 30 degrees C being the magic number.

Reports of fingermark have been a little sketchy, with the odd few at the Sugar Loader and out around Eva Rock for those prepared to tackle the hard slog to the front of Hinchinbrook Island.

The Queensland Government has recently made an announcement that new funding will become available to restocking groups in 05. To my knowledge there are still no requirements by Queensland Fisheries for restocking groups to strain identify barramundi fingerlings that may be released into open ended systems, dams or weirs that have an overflow transfer capability. Most people would not be aware that most of the barramundi fingerlings being made available for restocking come from commercial hatcheries where genetic stability is not a consideration. If fingerlings to be released are not aligned with geographically identified strains in that particular area, there is a real possibility of genetic drift, diversity breakdown and a host of other complications. At the end of the day any restocking groups who intend to release unsuitable fingerlings in areas where those fish have the potential for interaction with wild fish may well be doing more harm than good.

Al Goodwin
Crackajack Sportfishing Adventures
Lucinda Ph/Fax 61+07 47778365
crackfish@ozemail.com.au
www.crackfish.com

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Hinchinbrook - Cardwell

Hot has been the word here. Unfortunately it only applied to the weather, not the fishing. Neaping tides slowed everything down in the estuary until later in the week. Best days were on the top of the tide on Thursday and Friday. Lumpy Milson and Graham Brake managed to find GT's and queenies on and around Eva Rock, with Graham being busted off by a horse of a GT.

We managed to find some barra later in the week, on the flats, with about two hours to go to the bottom of the tide. They seemed to bite readily in the shallow water. Bombers and B 52's were the go. Big tides next week are going to make luring difficult but not impossible.

Safe boating and I'll see ya on the water, and remember "Fish for the Future, Practice Catch and Release".

Jimbo

Un-Reel Sportsfishing Adventures
Ph (07) 40660032
0408 842691
jimlee@qldnet.com.au
Cairns

Robert Erskine
Erskine's Tackle Shop
51 Mulgrave Rd Cairns
Ph (07) 4051 6099
erskinestackle@bigpond.com
Cairns - Reports compiled by Garry Smith

The run of perfect reef weather ended on Sunday with the return of the south easters but not before many people took advantage of the flat seas to head east. Reports varied from bag limits reached to just scraps and big mackerel got a good mention among many reports. Big and small mouth nannygai were the most prolific catch with a sprinkling of red emperor and trout.

The estuaries have been okay with the odd jack, grunter, queenie, GT and the barra. The barra season is looking great with lots of reports of incidental catches. Hopefully there will be enough rain in this current patch of wet weather to allow them to spawn before the season opening on 1st Feb.

The sooties are feeding on berries in the freshwater at the moment and we couldn’t get them to touch any type of lure or even a berry on a treble on a canoe trip down the Mulgrave River on Sunday. Big sooties were breaking the surface when taking the little red berries as they feel from the trees. This made for exciting viewing but frustrating fishing.

Garry Smith
lavallesmith@iig.com.au

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Port Douglas
The fishing over the festive period has been a challenging one, especially during the searing temperatures of the day. Reef reports have been quiet overall with many punters coming home with below par catches. The better reports have included cobia, 7kg nannygai, a few coral trout and a couple of Spaniards around the 20kg mark.

The rivers and creeks have been more productive closer to the mouths with mangrove jack and fingermark between 40-50cm being caught regularly on live and fresh dead baits such as mud herring. There have also been many incidental catches of barra which is promising for the season opening on February 1. The first hour or two after the turn of the outgoing tide has been prime time.

The beaches have been producing consistently, with tarpon, queenfish, blue salmon and barramundi all firing at various stages. Live garfish are the superior bait at the moment. There is a lot of bait roaming around, however the jelly prawns did not arrive after the heavy rains of Christmas. Fish along Four Mile Beach have been biting throughout the day.

Lynton "Heff" Heffer
Ph (07) 4098 5354
www.fishingportdouglas.com.au

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Cooktown

Leonard Todaro
Reel River Sportfishing.
PO Box 829 Cooktown Qld 4871
Ph 07 4069 5346.
reelriver@hotmail.com

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Karumba

Jason Jesse
Gulf Sportfishing Adventures
P.O. Box 228 Karumba
Phone - (07)4745 9434
gsakarum@tpg.com.au
www.gulfsportfishingadventures.com.au

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Weipa
My next report will be around New Year and our 2005 Newsletter will be posted out in mid January. Our website, www.weipafishing.com, is set to receive a major overhaul during the wet season break with more features and photos. I hope to add a selection of my magazine articles written over the past 30 plus years in a new section.

For those still contemplating a 2005 trip, be warned that dates from March to June are getting very scarce and the rest of the year is filling steadily. Be sure to get in early to avoid disappointment.

Barra Dave Donald
Dave Donald SPORTFISHING - Ph (07) 4069 9064
DDSPORTFISH@bigpond.com
www.weipafishing.com

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23/7/2001
30/7/2001
6/8/2001
13/8/2001
20/8/2001
27/8/2001
3/9/2001
10/9/2001
17/9/2001
24/9/2001
1/10/2001
8/10/2001
15/10/2001
22/10/2001
29/10/2001
5/11/2001
12/11/2001
19/11/2001
26/11/2001
3/12/2001
10/12/2001
17/12/2001
24/12/2001


3/7/2000
10/7/2000
17/7/2000
24/7/2000
31/7/2000
7/8/2000
14/8/2000
21/8/2000
28/8/2000
4/9/2000
11/9/2000
18/9/2000
25/9/2000
2/10/2000
9/10/2000
16/10/2000
23/10/2000
30/10/2000
6/11/2000
13/11/2000
20/11/2000
27/11/2000
4/12/2000
11/12/2000
18/12/2000
25/12/2000

Queensland Tide Times

Bureau of Meteorology