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A solid mangrove jack taken from a tight creek Hinchinbrook Channel.
THinchinbrook in a tinnie – part two
HIS month we’ll particularly where the bream out of every one. be continuing channel crosses from This was a bit of fun, with part two of one side to the other. while we killed time
Fishing Trip
by KEITH STRATFORD
our Hinchinbrook tin- The water was cleaner before heading back to
nie trip.
The morning after our
Other than that, it was quiet, and we didn’t see anyone else catch a fish around the terminal for the rest of the morning.
The Seymour was different to the other creeks that run into the channel in that there’s a lot of white sand and it’s very shallow in places,
than the other creeks we’d been fishing and there were plenty of snags to fish.
the mangrove jack spot we’d fished the day be- fore.
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epic mangrove jack ses- sion, we took dad out to the end of Lucinda Bulk Sugar Terminal.
A 5-10 knot breeze kicked in from the southwest, which was enough to put a ripple on the surface but by the time we dropped dad off, it started to glass out in the channel.
After fishing a few, we ended up pulling a stack of big pikey
We managed to get into the creek an hour earlier than the previ-
Almost everything lives around the termi- nal, so you never know what’s going to eat your lure next.
I landed a small coral trout on a Zerek Fish Trap Soft Vibe lure on the first drop.
Chris and I went back up the channel to look for fingermark, though the tide barely moved in our preferred area.
Plenty of trevally and queenfish were showing on the sounder, but they were sitting mid-water and not keen to eat.
So, we decided to have a look in the Sey- mour River because we hadn’t been there be- fore.
I eventually hooked one but got towed into the pylons very quickly. www.bnb shing.com.au
Collapsed banks held plenty of mangrove jack.
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