Report for 9/4/08 Took another run out wide yesterday with Dad to try for some more Fingermark. Ward came along in his boat with Julie and Liam. Collected live bait from Middle Reef and headed wide off West Point. Fingermark came in quick succession. Dad landed 3 and Ward had 1 in no time. But…
The flathead fly did the job. A couple of weekends ago the fly club went to Alva beach and I mangaed to get 3 small flatheads. I tried as mentioned earlier and failed last weekend.I did get out yesterday on the bottom of the tide and yippee! 2 flathead, 1 bartail and and 1 northern…
Came across this the other day on Ausfish. This is just nuts. I’m glad we don’t have to cross a bar to get out of Townsville!
Well this little blog continues to grow more and more every day! Dion had now accepted my offer to post to the site. Dion is a blue water fanatic who admits to being completely addicted to chasing pelagics on high-speed metal slices. In fact he is the person who convinced me that there is more…
Well what an hour can do. We went for a fish at Alva beach on Sunday and chased some flathead Liam, Malcolm and Ted did nice all brought home fish. The fly fisher not a touch, oh forgot a good size ray had a bit of fun on that one! So look again at the…
My dad and I fished today, braving the windy conditions. Hitting the ramp about 5.30am it was not too bad at all. Collected live bait and headed wide off West Point. It got pretty lumpy out there, but by the time it got too windy, we were almost on the mark. So we decided to…
Hello everybody my name is Ward and I will try to put some info on fly fishing in Townsville on Malcolm’s site. I have been fly fishing since 2000 after I caught my first trout! Since then I now only fly fish and try to catch all the species available to me. Lately I have…
Well I think the weather has everyone guessing for this weekend! Today would have been pretty sweet. But tomorrow is looking like 15’s most of the day. I am going to try get out in the morning, and hope the wind holds back until lunchtime. Somehow I don’t think it will. If you do get…
I would like to welcome Ward as a contributor to the Fishing Townsville Blog. Since launching this site only a few weeks ago, the number of hits to the site has been steadily increasing. This is great to see and encourages me to keep updates coming as regularly as possible. However, I don’t fish THAT…
Report for 30/3/08 Yesterday was our 6yr Wedding Anniversary. So what better way to celebrate than an afternoon on the water in a new boat? I didn’t necessarily want to fish, just a run to the island and dinner on the boat was all I wanted. But Tania was keen to have a bit of…