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Chris caught this sand bass jigging the deep water for ngermark.
Estuary cod are abundant around any rocks in the Hinchinbrook Channel.
After floating over a couple of shallow sec- tions, we finally got the same snag we’d caught jack from the previous day.
The wind was really getting up by this stage, and we still had to get back across the chan- nel to Lucinda in my father’s little tinnie.
Hinchinbrook in a tinnie
40cm on a 3” Berkley Gulp Shrimp.
Unfortunately, we had to get dad back to the Lucinda Fishing Lodge to check out.
Chris and I stayed out for a while and decid- ed to have a deep troll along the sugar jetty.
We had a perfect troll run, with Chris on the inside using an Atomic Hardz Shiner 85 Dou- ble Deep hard-body and me on the outside running a Killalure River Rat lure.
The sounder was show- ing plenty of fish and my lure was eventually crunched by an angry fish, and while we man- aged to tow it out of trou- ble, the hooks pulled.
With time running out, we had a cast with heavy plastics where the fish were showing.
Chris hooked a good barra that ran him straight towards the py- lons, and the hook fell out... again.
It wasn’t our day, so we packed up and head- ed home.
Over the few days at Hinchinbrook, we had an absolute ball and landed plenty of nice fish.
It was a bit difficult without an electric mo- tor in the tighter creeks, but with an open mind it’s possible to catch heaps of fish up the Hinchinbrook Channel in a tinnie, and I can’t wait to get back there.
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ous day and the water was so much lower.
snags to come and join the feed.
We saw a crocodile on a mud bank on the way in, which is always a bonus.
It wasn’t long before estuary cod and jack got in on the action and we scored several nice models of each species.
The water was near- ly a metre lower, with about two feet of water over the snag, so we waited for the tide to rise a little.
It wasn’t the most en- joyable trip back, but we got there eventually.
The first baits in the water saw a couple of solid pikey bream come aboard.
We took dad up to look for fingermark, but once again the tide was slow.
I don’t mind catching them at the start of a session because they chew pilchards up and create a berley trail.
So, we stuck it out for a while and finally the tide picked up and fish began to bite.
The trail is what at- tracts fish from other
We missed a couple of fish and then I scored a fingermark around
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