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A lovely Hinchinbrook ngermark taken on a 3” Gulp Shrimp.
HOinchinbrook in a tinnie – part one
VER the past There were a few started running in, so few years I’ve clothes mixed in some- we jumped on Goog- been on several where too, but they le Earth and picked a
Local Luring
by KEITH STRATFORD
fishing trips to Lucin- were at bottom of the small creek to cast lures
da at the southern end of the Hinchinbrook Channel.
what works best. My dad lives in This year my brother Townsville, so we flew
priorities when going to Lucinda to fish.
into the snags on the run-in tide.
I’ve done these trips at different times of the year to try and find out
Chris came on the trip we’d planned for the middle of August.
in there with bags full of lures and a tube full of rods.
I’ve been relatively lucky over the years with weather and this trip was no different, with a light southeast- erly wind forecast for the four days we were going to be there.
We planned to fish a few different places on this trip, so that for each new trip we would have more spots to choose from.
The author scored a mangrove jack from heavy timber on a prawn imitation.
The tide had just
We got a couple of brutal smokings in this little creek as well,
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We arrived at Lucinda on Thursday at around lunchtime and got the old man’s tinnie into the water then and there.
This little creek ended up being good, and we pulled a few nice man- grove jack and Chris got a nice grunter off a big fallen tree.
We went straight up the channel to look for fingermark, but the tide was a bit slow.
Plenty of cod got in on the action as well.
One thing I’ve worked out about fingermark up here is that they love current and lots of it.
The standout lures were prawn imitations rigged snagless and with minimal weight.
The best sessions I’ve had have been when it’s difficult to get a lure to the bottom.
I tried a variety of dif- ferent plastics but the prawns outfished eve- rything by a mile.