headed up to steep point for the recent long weekend and i have to say what an awesome place i have been wanting to go there for a long time now and even though the fishing wasnt red hot we still had a ball.

day 1:

4 of us were heading up in 2 cars, we spent the morinng packing up the old 60 series ready for the ong journey only to realise by the time we were packed that we had way to much weight and nearly no suspension left. thinking it probably wasnt wise to head up there severely overloaded, we had to convince my mates missus to let us take his gu patroll thankfully she agreed and the task of completely unpacking and repacking the car was set about. midday was the agreed time to meet the other mob at 440 roadhouse to drive up in convoy, as it turns out we needed not worry about hurrying as the other lot ginned around like old women and didnt leave untill 4 pm, being as keen as we were to get there the call was made to meet at the useless loop turn off. so off we went at about 3pm and arrived at the corner around dusk, expecting them to be an hour or so behind us it was time to crack a tinny, 4 hours and a carton of beer later the boys turned up, needless to say we were a bit pissed off they stopped at billabong for a few prics.

the rest of the trip went prety well in convoy up the dirt road and through the dunes the hiulx needed a little nissan power to get over a couple of the hills on the way we arrived at the start of the beach at about 2 30 in the morning and the call was made to roll out the swags and spend the night there. prety good camping spot i have to say plenty of life little sharks, stingrays, turtles, mullet everywhere. we were all itching to get to the point the next morning.

day 2:

woke up to a few sore heads and a perfect day 5 - 6 knots of wind and just warm enough, washed down a couple of panadol with an ice cold dare. packed up and headed into the rangers by 8 am, a quick stop there, and off we chekced out a few spots on the way in found a shallow spot around a rock where we could see big baldies and trevally swimming around, chucked that one in the memory bank for later on, off to the point. we arrived to reports of green water and slow fishing maybe 1 - 2 fish a day didnt sound good but thought we would have to make our own luck anyway. broke out the spinning rods as soon as we arrived and on with a gold twisty to see if i could get one of the little tuna swimming around, i managed to hook into one that was estimated 10kg he took off around the point as i had the drag a little light on and couldnt turn him ping there goes the first lure of the day. couldnt manage to get another hit for the rest of the day.

Day 3:

got up early started spinning before even having a coffee turned out to be another quite slow day no mackies in the morning, threw on a curried chicked 7 inch gulp and played around a bit managed to land a small yellow tail king and a spotty mackeral, not quite the fishing we were anticipating on the way up, but i was still in the lead from the other 3 blokes. fished during the day on a couple of difficult to get to ledges for baldies and snapper, caught plenty of leopard cod, we were starting to wonder where the fish were. late in the afternoon spinning with a pink mack bait i managed to raise the first makies of the trip when a school of small fish cam past only around 5 - 8 kg i got 6 hits in 2 casts and no hookups i was not a happy camper at that point. late in the afternoon i was throwing a goldtwisty around just as the sun was sinking below the horizen and bang i was on, the fight was short lived but i managed to land the first mack of the trip around 5 kg only a baby but i was still happy, persistance pays off.

Day 4:

day 4 was probably our best days fishing started spinning in the morning between us we managed to land 3 macks and a cobia biggest was only 8 kg but still plenty of fun. headed around to the high side to try for some baldies and macks we spent half an hour waiting for the toher 2 blokes who were again moving like my nanna decided to meet them there so we got a 15 minute head start on them, arrived at the spot first cas bang! nice snapper winched him up to the rocks we were prety stoked with that second cast another bloody small cod threw him back and rebaited bang on again another nice snap snap hit the rocks both around 3 kg.

having bagged out on the pink fish i kicked back and had a beer to watch the other blokes fish shoulda seen there faces when they arrived to see 2 nice snapper laying on the rocks haha. not long after rory managed to hook the biggest snapper for the trip around 4 kg good fish they arnt easy to dead lift out of the water finaly the other blokes got there lines in and the young feller managed to land a great baldie and a cracker of a dart a few hairy moments were spent gaffing the baldie because he only had lightish braid on. the fish slopwed down a bit so we headed off fr a swim and fish at the beach, one of the kmost beautifull beaches i have ever seen had a quick swim and broke out the prawns 28 big whiting a nice flattie a couple of gardies and plenty of dart made it a prety fun afternoon. rory and i decided to go off and do the tourist thing while the other boys went back to the snapper spot to try again, they managed another 5 snapper and a red throat in the evening.

day 5:

time to go :( not happy, headed up to the snapper spot again managed another snapper and a baldie each in the morning to top the trip off, had to go back to pack up. just as we were about to leave the boys in the camp start yelling and running we look over to see a rod going off shortly after a nice fish of around 17 kg est hit the rocks spewin we had all the gear packed up, off we went one last swim at the beach in shelter bay on the way out and we were off tired sunburnt sore but prety happy we didnt fill the freezers we only kept 3 or 4 fish each but had a ball just being in that part 0f australia.

awesome!!!

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