Photos from the last trip and what a cracker of a trip it was. Beautiful August weather, just look at the pix below not a cloud in the sky
and the fish were "high and happy" in the water column readily pouncing on any thing, and everything you put in front of them.It's that time again when we rush around like people possessed, tearing our hair out, getting all stressed over the, "why won't they eat"
and the endless "if onlys"... if only the hook didn't pull,... the line get round the reel... the other fish run into the line, the hook
break etc, etc. If there is a way to loose a permit I've done it, or witnessed it. We saw the first of the mid year wave of tracanoits blocci the trip before this when one was hooked, fought for 34 minutes and with a little (too much) pressure to guide the fish to the net the whole show
came unbuttoned, and guess what, we got the loop knot to the fly back intact! One of 2 things happened, either the hook eye broke, or the
loop came out the gap where the eye formes back to the shank. Never seen that before, if it can happen it will happen, especially when you have the
Holey Grail of salt water fly fishing attached to your long wand.
Jay Murakoshi, professional salt water fly tier from California with his first indo Pacific Permit caught
on his "ugly crab fly" tied out of material cut from the carpet on the floor of his garage, and Zatch with the first of 2 he caught this trip, by the end of
this day he had only ever caught 14 fish on fly and 2 were Mr. P... How cools that?
James and Nelle from L.A. had a fantastic fishing holiday catching (and releasing)
loads and loads of fish of different species. After this day on the reef James was up to 24 species, I think he lost count after that.
Left to right, GT, Large mouth Nannygais and red emperor.
Bud and Bogie also from California, two of the nicest fishen buddies you could wish to have on
your boat for a week. Veterans of many many exotic fishing holiday destinations doing 4 long range fishing holidays a year, this was their fourth
(I think) trip to Cape York and first with us. Left to right Bogie [left] and bud with 2 of many many double queenfish, Bud with a wopping Spanish
Mackeral and a coral Trout [inset]
New to the art of salt water fly fishing Shane (left) and Neil from the colder climes of Australia
took my emailed advice on the selection of the right salt fly equipment and were defiantly not disappointed in the results of, both the equipment and
the fishery. Broad barred Mackeral (left) were in easy reach of the learning caster in the balled up bait (see inset) and Long tail tunas were also relatively
easy and a bunch fun to chase down under the birds.
This lady needs little introduction to those who follow salt water fly fishing in Australia.
The envy of many, Lydia travels extensively in the pursuit of fly fishing and in her own words "only works so she can pay for fishing trips" she joins
us for the 5th time in as many years to do battle with our tropical sport fish on a 7 weight fly rod. The GT (right was caught on a bait caster)
but the Queen (left) was on a 7 weight. Short turn around this week, we are out again tomorrow, check back in a week for the next report on the fishing action on the west coast of
Cape York. Previous Fishing Trip Reports:
