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Updated: Mar 23rd, 2008 - 17:57:25
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Your "Go Fish Australia" experience begins in Cairns the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef and Giant Black Marlin capitol of the world! Spend a evening in Cairns taking in the Night Markets, Night Zoo (that's a blast) or just a great meal at on of the many restaurants along the Cairns Esplanade before retiring to bed. You will need to refresh because tomorrow you will take your flight to Bamaga. You will fly at roughly 11000 feet, coastal, over the Great Barrier Reef. A spectacle in its own right. Arrival at Bamaga were Greg Bethune and the Seafaris crew await!
Once at Bamaga you will driven to Sesia by Captain Greg Bethune and you will then board the "Tropic Paradise" for immediate departure.
The rest of the day we steam South into the Gulf of Carpentaria. Towing trolling rigs for large Pelagics, possibly casting to schools of surface feeding Tunas and Bonito. This time is used to settle in, rig your gear, relax and unwind.
Your first night aboard, as all nights are spent in a calm river mouth anchorage. Day two, after breakfast the skiffs with you aboard are deployed to fish either the river, or the flats, the estuary snags or reefs, whatever takes your fancy either with a guide or on your own.
The rest of your Seafari is spent working our way back through six available river systems and ninety miles of coast line mostly with the skiffs running ahead of the mothership to maximize fishing time.
The last day of the charter is a morning and afternoon fishing session and then we travel overnight back to Seisia. The following morning after breakfast aboard with us you are transported to the airport for departure to Cairns
Some important notes about this trip. It is not fully guided you have the opportunity for you and a fishing partner to guide and run your own skiff. This is something that accomplished fisherman enjoy rather than avoid. Each day the fishing opportunities are discussed and plans of attack are mapped out. Your options are varied and interesting. Fish for fast hard pulling pelargic species such as Tuna, trevally, mackerels cobia and others while they bust on bait balls or stake out on a flat sight fishing for permit, trevally, queenfish, blue salmon, giant herring.
You are also not limited to the boat. How about walking the deserted beaches and river mouths stalking cruising fish in gin clear water. Cape York is one of the few places you can possibly cast to Barramundi from the shoreline.
You could realistically fish flats, bluewater, reef and estuary situations all in one day! If variety is the spice of life, Cape York is the source of the spice.
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