An alliance of environmental and community groups (see groups here) is organising Townsville’s first Flotilla for the Reef. It will take place along The Strand on Sunday 19 of October and is aimed at drawing attention to the damage that mega industrial ports and dredge spoil dumping do to the Reef. The flotilla will call…
Friday was family fishing day. According to the weather man, this was the pick of the days to be on the water. Light 5-10knots winds were forecast and we planned to try a run to Maggie Shoals to chase some Spanish Mackerel and Nannygai. But with strong Northerly winds blowing late Thursday, I wasn’t convinced…
Lately it seems all the good weather has been during the week. Luckily I can actually take advantage of this at the moment. Thursday was forecast to be good, and dropping, while Friday looked like the pick of the days for a run wide. So I decided to put the family on hold for the…
I am on school holidays at the moment, and how should holidays begin? With fishing of course! So last Saturday I headed off for a solo run to work some Threadybusters around the creek mouthes. Andrew was off fishing,and ultimately winning, the Hinchinbrook Barra Comp and the family had other plans. So I was on…
Definitely some mixed results fishing last weekend. Decided to take the Kayak for a paddle down Alva Beach way to chase some Flathead. This time last year we had a fantastic session with over 20 fish caught in the 50-60cm range. But times have changed! Came home with a big fat doughnut. Paddled all over…
** Warning ** Large images are used in this article. Please allow time for these to download ** Warning ** Recently a comment was made on Facebook about the fact that ‘with the advent of Google Earth, no fishing spot is secret’. I have been using Google Earth now for over 10 years to check…
I really struggled last weekend to convince the family to get out of bed early and go for a fish from the boat! The cold weather and unpredictable winds didn’t help. I was pretty sure Sunday was going to be ok, but convinced enough to drag everyone out of bed at 4.30am. So when I…
Fishing Townsville is currently celebrating 2000 Facebook likes with a great give-away competition. All you have to do to enter is like the Facebook Page, like and comment on the competition post. Winners will be announced on Sunday 20th July. We would like to thank Shimano, Townsville Marine, The Fishing Warehouse, Railblaza, Wiked Fishing, Jelly…
Following our successes with the Doggie Mackerel on Wednesday, we figured a run back there the next day should see us straight back into them. The weather was going to be very different, with a change due to come through about 10.30am. But it was supposed to be calm again in the morning, and the…
Oh yeah, I love it when the weather is down mid-week during the school holidays! It doesn’t happen very often, but when it does I get very excited. And Wednesday was just that day! Winds were predicted to be light all day, and I had big plans! Whenever I write a report for this website,…