Species in a single session
I know Weipa is pretty much the gold standard for salt water flats fishing in Australia but my little corner of the Whitsundays has to be a close second in the right conditions. 10 last saturday all in less than 3 feet of water. Jack, Pickey bream, cod, barracuda, GT, Golden, Giant Herring, Queenfish, swallow tail dart and a bonefish, plus 30 or 40 casts at permit.
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Well done Kev.
All that's missing are Black and White Tips, Bulls, Tigers, Hammerheads and Whites.
You may need to get into a little deeper water and closer to some of the visitor burley trails tho.
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Mmm! Enough said. Not big on sharks on the "long wand".
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Be an "interesting" kind of fly you would have to tie if you were "matching the hatch" of late.
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Cracked the code yesterday on same flats...can now tick permit off the bucket list with 5 in a session.
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Nailed over a dozen ( can't remember number exact ) at Innes Head ( Turkey Beach ) about 10 years ago. I'll look for photos. Bait / boat fishing in 3 meters of water and less. Everything from Cod, Bream, Squire, Jack, Trevor, Moses, Flathead, Grunter and on the way back a big MoFo mack Tuna. 8-);D;D
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Just waching some cuba you youtube "stuff" on you tube about permit and seems like 2 in a day is a big deal. Getting 10 to 15 in 3 hours here right now.....just maybe the whitsundays is actually the worlds best prrmit on fly fishery. Last weekend actuaaly got 4 in 4 casts amongst 12 in a 2 hour session.
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Donnybrook today. Bream, tarwhine, whiting, flathead, Moses perch, parrot, grassy sweetlip, long Tom, stingray. Unusual not to get a grunter which would have made 10.
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unfamiliar with Permit. had to look it up , never seen the offspring from a GT and queenfish before. looks a pretty and powerful fish. big fork tail i reckon they must go hard out.
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gunna
Donnybrook today. Bream, tarwhine, whiting, flathead, Moses perch, parrot, grassy sweetlip, long Tom, stingray. Unusual not to get a grunter which would have made 10.
Good going Gunna what fly did you use to catch a sting ray????????
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Nup. Just a similar session to what Phil mentioned a couple posts previous. Thought that would be obvious. Sorry if you misunderstood.