Day four: shut the door
The last day of any trip is a bitter sweet
moment. You know the end is near but you
know what’s waiting in the creeks and on
the reefs.
My last day had us steaming up towards
the fingermark reef and, after a little bit of
hunting, we found plenty of fingermark in
the shallow reefs – some as shallow as 8
feet!
We ended up catching and releasing
about 20 fingermark before a bunch
of big trevally moved in and started
stretching us out. Everyone had a shot at
wearing themselves out but it was Andrew
from Tackle World Mackay who mastered
the trevs, continually hooking and landing
them!
All the other boats had a little time on
various reefs with coral trout, fingermark,
trevally of many species and all sorts of
cod and other ooglies making for some
real entertainment on Live Flash Minnow
Wrigglies and Fish Traps. It was a very
entertaining way to sign off on a magical
part of the world.
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