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battery start to die in
lock is the luxuriant profusion of vegetation that clothes its banks.
of the timber, and after taking a few pics, was released back into this amazing river.
Mid-afternoon we re- turned downstream and pulled the crab pots, with great success.
can’t wait to get back there.
the you know what. The emergency criti- cal low battery warning started squawking, with the drone wanting to return to where it had been launched from by
Imposing standard mangroves flourish in the lower estuary, grad- uating to seriously im- pressive stands of Nypa and Corypha palms in the mid reaches.
A big surprise was two red claw that one of the barramundi re- gurgitated.
All but one had le- gal males, though not being full a few were released.
The wind has been pretty consistent along theeastcoastoftheCape in not allowing reef fish- ing from small boats.
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This in turn develops into a lush ribbon of rainforest, all of which combine to give the impression of being on a New Guinean rath- er than an Australian river.
Though favoured as bait by anglers in many places, we’ve had virtu- ally no success with red claw in this part of the Cape – cherabin being the standout success.
The tally of keep- ers was a neat dozen, which were boiled and devoured at Josh’s place that night.
Living near Cook- town, I can see plenty of trips into the magical Rinyirru (Lakefield) National Park in the coming months as a great alternative.
was a few hundred me- tres away.
A fantastic day of living the dream and I
With deft boat driving by Josh, I finally man- aged to pluck the drone from the air before it landed on the water to become a feature of the riverbed.
Until next month.
Josh Lyon with the prize barramundi of the day – a lovely 98cm example.
The wonderful and wild Wenlock River
Now time to fish.
First cast into the snags at the mouth of a small gutter and I was on to a decent barra in the high-70cm range.
We first tried a couple of rock bars that often produce very well.
After some toing and froing, it finally gained its freedom in the plen- tiful snags.
It was very quiet – re- sults which matched the side scan sounder that depicted only a handful of fish.
And so began a great session on barra, which were all hanging in snags around the vir- tually hidden gutter mouth.
We then headed fur- ther upstream to find some drains, given the success at one the pre- vious week.
The prize of the day was a 98cm fish that Josh skilfully kept out
So, the other wild thing about the Wen-
Nypa and Corypha palms line the Wenlock River.
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