Daintree Fishing

Bunyip River

Date: 29 January 2013
Weather: Sunny
Crew: Dave
Target Fish: Trout
Bait: Lures - Spinners 5g Brown Trout, Rapala CD5 - Brown Trout
Berley: None
Catch: None - 1 trailer only
Report: Very frustrating stream. Debris and overhanging branches everywhere. Managed to find only a handful of spots to cast. Will not hit again.
Rating: 2/10

Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada

Date: 26 December 2012
Weather: Freaking cold! -32 celcius
Crew: Toon, Lisa, Annie, Mum, Dad
Target Fish: Lake Trout
Bait: Small Lures
Berley: None
Catch: 1 lake trout
Report: An absolutely amazing experience. Always wanted to try ice fishing, i just didn’t imagine it would be that cold! Scooted out to the lake on three snowmobiles. Threw a 6 month pregnant wife off it at one stage and tipped the snowmobile. All was fine luckily! Got to the lake then augured 5 holes to fish from. After about 30-45 mins of fishing we finally landed a small lake trout about 30cm in length. The fishing line froze as you jigged the lure up and down and as a result you couldn’t reel in the fish so had to skull drag him up through the hole. Had to unhook him pretty quick fast otherwise the fish would have frozen up. Threw him back after a couple of pics.
Rating: 10/10

Young Buck

Date: 2 January 2013
Weather: Sunny
Crew: Dave
Target Fish: Trout
Bait: Lures - Spinners 5g Brown Trout, Rapala CD5 - Brown Trout
Berley: None
Catch: 1 Brown, 1 Rainbow (Small)
Report: Beautiful river. Found a really nice campsite. Lost another 3 or so, 1 felt like a big fish. Lots of long stringy moss in the water which was a bit of nuisance. Definately heading back.
Rating: 5/10