Some time ago I posted in the M and G section about wanting to spend a month at 1770 and member Magilla1 made me an offer I couldn't refuse. Tony owns 'Idle Daze', a house in Agnes that is on Grahame Collyer Dr, about 250m from the servo and a short walk to the pub. On a plus side, the trip home from the pub is down hill, so if you get a skin full getting home is a breeze. That happened a few times, but the weather played its part in that, more on that later.....
I am not going to hide the fact that this is partly a plug for Tony's property, it is a lovely little house, not far from the beach with plenty of room for boats and cars, well appointed and a cracking place for a bit of time away with the boys fishing as much as it is a great getaway for the family. I can't recommend it enough and if you are thinking of accommodation in Agnes it is certainly well worth considering.
Now the fishing.... well we had some hiccups. It blew.... and blew... then blew some more. We had some laughs with the common statement being 'It cant blow forever", but as it seems, it can!!!
We only got one full three day trip to the reef, and the fishing was exceptional,. We had no trouble getting the amount of fish we were after which included all the normal species I target up there, and another 1 1/2 day trip last week in which we did well considering the time we had and the conditions we endured.
We filled in quite a few days chasing mackeral in close in the lumpy conditions in which we achieved results that varied from amazing to underwhelming on a day to day basis. There really was no pattern to bite times/ tides or conditions that bought them on, some days we belted them, other days we struggled big time.
My chief engineer/ deckhand/ electrical advisor/ sober enforcer of drunken hooligans Lance had to return to Brisbane to have surgery which also put a bit of a dampener on things, but he is on the mend and will hopefully bounce back better than ever, sooner rather than later.
We had a few visitors during the time up there which added a vital financial injection to the pub and local backpacker establishments and my young bloke and his mate came up for a few days but between the skate park, beach and them perving on young ladies from the other side of the world that they may have a chance with in about eight years time, we hardly saw them.
The crappy weather aside, we had a great time at Idle Daze, spent way too much time at the local licenced establishments, and cannot recommend Tony's property enough.
I know the fishing report is a bit vague but I very rarely post them, my mate took some photos of some really good fish and when I get a new phone (I have destroyed two in two weeks which is problematic), I will get him to text them to me and I will post them.
Cheers men,
Go Queensland,
Shane