Dream fishing trip
Submitted by GusG on Thu, 2009-07-16 12:55
OK so put on your thinking hats and come up with your dream fishing trip. Anywhere, anytime. You have at your disposal unlimited funds, a time machine (if req
) and anything else required.
I reckon my ideal trip would be land based game fishing back in the 80's (with today's gear) at Devil's Gorge in Jervis Bay NSW. Fishing over the summer months for a beakie and the winter months for BIG yellowfin off the stones. Can't fish off this location any more as it is now a marine park
There are fancier trips out there but for me this would be the ultimate. What would be yours?
sunshine
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Date Joined: 03/03/09
Rowley Shoals
No question but a close second would be anywhere north of Derby in the Gulf.
I would however like a time machine (tardis) and go back 150 years with current gear and fish our own metro waters - now that would be an eye opener !!
Webby
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Date Joined: 24/09/08
fly fishing north of wiepa,
fly fishing north of wiepa, or let me be the first to say the coral sea catching every thing thats huge.
I live with fear every day... sometimes she lets me go fishing.
Bodie
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Date Joined: 05/11/07
oh where to start Abroholas
oh where to start
Abroholas 20 years ago
Dampier / Karratha 20 years ago.
Now: Montes trip for 3 weeks on a big mother ship with big 25ft centre cosnoles as tenders!!
Bones76
Posts: 476
Date Joined: 03/11/08
My dream fishing trip
My dream fishing trip includes a voyage to all of the following:
Christmas Island, a Nomad Charter, Rowley's etc etc
flangies
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Date Joined: 11/05/08
My local spot but its firing
My local spot but its firing with all sorts of Giant pelagics and i text all my friends to come but they cant make it :D and then i have to show them the pictures of giant tailor and shore based tuna haha
I can dream cant i ^_^
allrounder
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Date Joined: 10/11/08
Midway
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So tell me have you got your info from years on the water or hours on the internet?
Andy Mac
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Date Joined: 03/02/06
Madang / Rabaul PNG
20 years ago I was in PNG for 2 years but had no boat.
I often dream about having my own charter vessel there, but no paying passengers just mates and we have a ball.
Maybe a lotto win will make it come true.
Cheers
Andy Mac (Fishwrecked Reeltime Editor & Forum Moderator)
Youngest member of the Fishwrecked Old Farts Club
On the Level
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Date Joined: 13/06/09
Stay local (W.A
In my humble opinion, when the weather is right u can't beat the Gascoyne Coast, from Shark Bay north to Coral Bay. U name it and it's there to be caught.
On the Level
7739ian
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Date Joined: 25/06/08
Green Head
forty years ago when you could free dive just a few metres from shore and get a feed of crays. Great amphitheatre west of the current town where you could camp for a week free from the wind or bloody rangers.
HuggyB
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Date Joined: 03/08/08
good lord, where to start?!?
rowley shoals: anything and everything
xmas island: fly fishing the flats for bones, off-shore for any manner of fish
kuala rompin: sails (on conventional and fly tackle)
lizard island: chasing a grander marlin
abrohlos islands: anything and everything
monte bello islands: anything and everything
new zealand / tasmania: fly fishing for trout
gees, I could name a ton more.
The Terrorist - coming to a fishing spot near you.........
allrounder
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Date Joined: 10/11/08
was speaking to a guy
who just got back from kuala rompin he said it was mind blowing.
So tell me have you got your info from years on the water or hours on the internet?
jay_burgess
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Date Joined: 18/08/05
Midway Atoll... oh yeah!
Midway Atoll... oh yeah! BIIIG black GTs.
aquagenes
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Date Joined: 28/10/08
any where i dont care so
any where i dont care so long as i can wet a line...LOL..
But .....All the shoals off OZ to start with and then off to the islands around the world.
kane
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Date Joined: 07/12/08
Would like to give Groote a go
Is that spelt right? yeah et sportfishing escapes, groote island one day.
Gooooone Fishin!
Faulkner Family
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Date Joined: 11/03/08
Got to be at least 3 weeks
Got to be at least 3 weeks at Rowleys,even give Cocas isl a go but cant forget the montees, oh for the lotto life, if a time machine was handy no wasting time traveling
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
wadetolley
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Date Joined: 27/06/08
Groote
Drop me at Groote Island with a pellet of Redback and a boat...and i will be happy.
Ps Im trying my hardest to get a job there..hopefully this year!
Ryan Thipthorp (not verified)
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Date Joined: 01/01/70
OK!
If i had a time machine it would be to go back 50 years from now to see what metro fishing was really like....mind blowing i reckon!
As for the dream fishing trip, Rowley Shoals with a mothership of 70-80ft, a few tenders of 20ft and 4 weeks of fishing & diving and nothing else....aahhhh ok...... alcohol & girls too......LOL!
nev
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Date Joined: 04/02/09
Cockburn Sound
Would have been one of the best nurserys in Ozz a hundred years ago,had it all!. Would have been pretty lively back then I bet.Look at it now completly wrecked from a causeway,dredging and of course heavy industry. South Beach used to be a squeaky clean white beach, have a look now (grey) completely ruined from dredging. Carnarvon still does it for me though after 25 years!
Simon C
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Date Joined: 01/05/07
Mothership
Starting in Exmouth and working our way round to Darwin. A good flats boat in tow. Fish bluewater up past the montes and round to broome, then creeks, headlands etc round to cassini. A few days of topwater popping for Gt's and Billfish, then end up fishing some of the bigger rivers in the NT during runnoff for big barra. About 3 months should do it.
Failing that I would take a nice mothership parked in the Bottom of exmouth gulf with a very fast gameboat and a creek boat alongside for a month, 3 mates, maybe even let the missus come for a week.
crasny1
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Pond Zero at Dampier Salt
If this was not banned it would be mind blowing in there with monster cod, barra etc etc.
Bairnsback in PNG close second.
Neels
"I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact!!" _ Elon Musk
Lucky Tim
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Date Joined: 28/11/07
If the time machine was
If the time machine was available there would be heaps of options: Exmouth, Abrolhos, NT rivers etc but above all of them I'd go back to when Ashmore Reef wasn't a marine park and spend some quality time there with a 6m "game" boat and a good flats boat. The flats and reef edges are awesome and the game fishing surrounding would be mind blowing. Definetly worth checking out on Google Earth.
For my current day dream trip it would probably be a mothership trip to the far corners of Vanuatu.
For a real dream trip, leave Sydney on a big boat for Lord Howe (kingfish), Norfolk (to refuel), Wanganella Banks (striped marlin and deep water bottom fish), Vanuatu (blue marlin and dogtooth), New Cal (bones and GT's) and home to Cairns via Coral Sea reefs (whatever you didn't catch at Vanuatu).
Mick
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Kenn or Wreck reef aboard a
Kenn or Wreck reef aboard a Nomad charter. Sea plane in and a huge variety of fishing to suit whatever takes your fancy. But for now I'll keep on packing my gear because tomorrow morning we head off to Coral Bay for a week then to Exxy for a few days. It'll just have to do. For now.
If the lord did not mean for us to eat fish and game, he wouldn't have made them outta meat
The speed of light is faster than the speed of sound. That's why so many people appear bright...until they speak.
fishing fanatic
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mmmm
i am going to have to go with 100 years back anywere and everywhere and fishing non stop for that 100 years. with unlimited beverges, tackle, babes and anything else i wanted
Nealez
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Date Joined: 08/05/06
New cal, diamond islets,
New cal, diamond islets, midway, kamodo... too many to mension
brenz
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one word NOMAD although the
one word NOMAD
although the rowleys would be nice
Tim Moloney
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Date Joined: 06/06/09
Start From Geralton!
With unlimited time and money, I would start from Gero on a mothership, that had 25ft tenders with all the trimmings, jet ski's, smaller dinghy's etc, all the dive gear, spear guns, and different size rods and reels you could name, take of north to Darwin stopping in on all the spots I haven't been yet with include: Abroholos, Quobba, Shark Bay, Karratha/Dampier, Monte Bello's, Mackeral Islands, and onwards to the place I would like to go most the Rowley shoals! After that try some places around Derby, and the Kimberley, and onwards to the Islands of Darwin like Melville, and Bathurst Island.
A trip like this could take years, thats just how long I would stay at every spot!