WalFish
25-04-2011, 03:53 PM
Back from another great week at Lucinda. As you will see from some of the photos, the weather was awesome on Wed, Thu and Friday, then the wind picked up a bit on Sat and Sun, then home again today.
We got there on Wed morning and set up our camp in a nice shady part of the park - (the place has recovered pretty well after the cyclone and the locals are pretty happy to see the tourists return). Then off to launch the boat and down to Yanks Jetty for a bit of a snorkel around a small reef on the inside of the islands. The kids loved it and then we had a bit of a fish on the way home with no luck with some minor steering issues - needed about 300ml of fluid to top up the steering - must be a slow leak somewhere that I can't find!
Thursday and Friday we went to the reef - full throttle each way on both days as it was so calm. We landed 3 good size spanish mackerel on the Thursday - one of mine going 30kg. Was a good fight on 30lb mono and gave me a good run around doing 2 laps of the boat. A couple more fish on the Friday made it all worthwhile.
The wind on Sat and Sun kept us confined to the channel and a smorgasboard of Bream, Grunter, Whiting, Estuary Cod and Mud Crabs...... yes, tough I know!
We got there on Wed morning and set up our camp in a nice shady part of the park - (the place has recovered pretty well after the cyclone and the locals are pretty happy to see the tourists return). Then off to launch the boat and down to Yanks Jetty for a bit of a snorkel around a small reef on the inside of the islands. The kids loved it and then we had a bit of a fish on the way home with no luck with some minor steering issues - needed about 300ml of fluid to top up the steering - must be a slow leak somewhere that I can't find!
Thursday and Friday we went to the reef - full throttle each way on both days as it was so calm. We landed 3 good size spanish mackerel on the Thursday - one of mine going 30kg. Was a good fight on 30lb mono and gave me a good run around doing 2 laps of the boat. A couple more fish on the Friday made it all worthwhile.
The wind on Sat and Sun kept us confined to the channel and a smorgasboard of Bream, Grunter, Whiting, Estuary Cod and Mud Crabs...... yes, tough I know!