would you take a tinny to the cape

I wouldn't go there without one. Too much to explore and do with a tinny. Wouldn't catch me fishing off to many banks up there.

I fished the banks for not a lot of results. Wiepa was best. I think if you work out the extra costs of taking the boat you could pay for a guided day out instead.

If their is crocs around it would be safer fishing from a tinnie.
Cheers Pete

Either can be great. Off the jetty and Seisia and weipa can be amazing. At Seisia we were getting busted off on 80 pnd line. Big mackeral, queenies, sharks. I had a 7 ft mackeral steal a 2 ft ribon fish off me at the base of the jetty. We took a long handled gaff with us for fishing off the jetties.
At weipa we got smashed off the jetty by huge tarpon. Crap to eat but awesome fighting fish. We got a good feed of shark from there and I had an awesome fight with a gynormous groper.
Off the beach at Punsand bay we got 3 sharks around 6-7 feet. See here for fishing of the beach at punsand bay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9ukF75MMqA
If your interesed in a charter try http://www.capeyorkcustomsportfishing.com.au/
To see what they are like to fish with look at how much fun we had with them here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUBk7FB6gWY
We also met a young couple in cape york with a tinnie and Nathan and I got a few really good feeds from the tinnie.
I got a nice coral trout flicking lures from the rocks at somerset.
You can basically catch fish from anywhere. One tip for you though. The fish in cape york usually bite better coming up to the quarter moon (I think that was it, ring Tim or Leslie at cape york custom sports fishing to check that)
We were there before the quarter moon and had great fishing. After it the fishing slowed right down.
Do be careful of the crocs though, we had walk past our campsite 2 days before we arrived. Use common sense.
Hope this helps.

Josh

Dont bother taking a tinnie to the cape,, what a pain in the ring.
Fishing is awesome off the seisa jetty as already said.
We catch heaps of Barra (60cm or so) in June / July in some of the rivers up there every year without fail from the bank.
Cape Melville area is a hotspot for us for bank fishing.

met a fella at Hann crossing who gave me a Barra to eat for dinner (he was one over his limit for the day), reckons he goes there every year to fish for Barra.
Pennefeather river it was 2 casts by a mate and a fish on the line from the banks of the river, then another mate caught similar size fish on his 3rd cast (pic below). i'm not really into fishing, so didn't even take a rod or line with me.