Fishing Charters Cape York

Thanks esarby

This was caught on John Charlton's boat by our sons. It took ages and they had to swap over half way through. 1.2M GT!!!!

Phil

Thanks Howard. Can you remember how far in advance you booked?

I have a habit of booking way ahead. We booked on 29th April 2010 for a day fishing on 12th August, 2010.

That may be a bit too much but I will not miss anything again. It happened at another place at another time. No problems with John. I also had a large itinerary to book for so I started way ahead.

Phil

Thanks heaps for the info Phil. Great help.

Matthew,
we had tried to get a charter in weipa but locals there were booked out weeks in advance so rang Seisa and could have got in in 3 days but we booked for a week later to give us more time driving up.
that was in july 2008
cheers
Howard

Thanks Klakka

Thanks tdv

Thanks Josh. Good video. Can you remember how far in advance you booked?

I booked about 4 months ahead as I only had a small window I could do the charter on. Also after talking to them about The affect the moon stage and tides have on fish biting I wanted to booked the charter the right time for the best chance to catch fish. There were people camped near us that bookedthe charter the week after us while they were there and a couple of others shortly after that.
You could ring them and have a chat about the time you'll be up there and best time to fish, then book a bit closer but the longer you wait the more risk of missing the best bite. I actually moved my time for the charter forward a week on their advice for best bite and so glad I did. Fishing up to that point was unreal. The week after was a lot quieter on the bites.

You don't need a charter to catch good fish in cape york. This is a video of a shark we caught off the beach at punsand bay on a 100pnd handline.


We all got some really big fish off the jetty at seisia an wiepa, including 5 foot mackerall, sharks, queenfish in the cast net and gropers.
Off weipa we got smashed on tarpon, no good to eat but great fun to catch.

Josh

Thanks for all the info Josh. Helps me out a lot.

Thanks Ma. Heading off from central Vic towards the end of may. Got 4 weeks in total.