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The trip around the tip of Australia was one of the best we’ve experienced thus far with only light winds to about 10knots trailing us. With Cairns copping a beating from the ex-Tropical Cyclone Tim the day after we left port to head north, it seemed like we timed our departure very well. This is one of our anchorages on the journey north on the East Coast – Morris Reef. We crossed around the tip of the country in similar weather and enjoyed a night on anchor off the most beautiful Frangipani Beach at the top of Cape York. Contrary to southern areas of Queensland and northern NSW, the FNQ wet season has been a bit of a fizzer in 2013 with very little rain to the lower regions of the Gulf of Carpentaria and only moderate falls up to the north. Well that all changed our first week on the water with the rain coming in bucket loads!! The rain created a fair amount of run-off and stirred up the water (and dropped the water temp!) which created some tough conditions for the first few days of our crew explore week, but luckily for us, it turned around with some spectacular weather over the final few days. And some spectacular fishing as well hitting triple digits with some quality sessions on the drains over the final couple of days in the Pennyfather. There was plenty of variety on top of the usual mangrove Jacks and barramundi. We also had ...
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This Fishing Report was submitted on 4/1/2013 11:17:35 AM by Seamus and last updated on 4/1/2013 11:17:35 AM.
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