gold coast/port douglas charter
Submitted by turts on Wed, 2011-03-09 18:50
gday guys
family member has moved to the QLD recently. planning a visit sometime this year and as always keen to hit up the fishing on offer one of the days. will be visiting both port douglas and the gold coast.
due to time constraints would only be able to get on board single day charters, but keen to hit up most game species eg. kings, tuna, dolphinfish, cobia, trevally etc etc
does anyone know if this fishing is accessible by single day charter up that way?
had a look on google and other places and there seems to be quite a few charters. can imagine being a popular tourist destination there would be a fair few average ones so just after opinions/experiences of any good charters to point me in the right direction.
cheers
turts
richard79
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Fishing Charter GC
I've been on BK's fishing charter 2 times (http://www.bksfishing.com.au) once in summer and once in winter. Pretty cheap $90 out at 6am in at lunch time. Within 20 min fishing, using ganged mulies as bait. Half the boat bottom bashes from one side and the other side drifts out un weighted bait. the summer charter was good the boat caught 3 small marlin, my brother boated a small marlin about 40-50 kg. All from within 7-8 km from shore. Good fun apart from myself not catching anything decent!
rocky
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Date Joined: 07/06/10
hey turts i highly recomend a
hey turts
i highly recomend a guy called smithy whou does charters from sunshine coast to gold coast he will chase any type of fish you want and you will come home with a feed. his website is www.sqcs.com.au . i think he charges around $750 a boat. i would not waste your time with anyone else.
thanks rocky
pelagicyachts
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Date Joined: 23/02/11
Hey turtsi went out on a
Hey turts
i went out on a blackwatch (34 i think) out of the marina at Port D about 2 years ago - its called the Joker - great day out and as there was 3 of us it was pretty reasonable
riptide
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Port
Went out with this guy here: http://www.fishingportdouglas.com.au/outabout.html
was a pretty average day with few mangove jacks and couple of trevally landed and a barra hooked but lost due to my own stupidness. but fish sometimes bite and sometimes they don't and this bloke was trying hard and was an overall enjoyable day. were fishing inshore and in the river a few k's north of town, tried everything, bait, lures and flies
can't remember the price, I think it was something round 400 for 6 or 7 hours, was 6 years ago.
worth it
cheers
chris
Simon C
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not sure if smithy is still
not sure if smithy is still running, I know his boat was for sale a while back - think he got poached and is back running big fish things.
rocky
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Date Joined: 07/06/10
hey simonsmithy is still
hey simon
smithy is still going he has purchased a new boat. just went out with him about 6 months ago. dont think he has sold his blue tub yet.
thanks rocky