June Fishing Wrap-up

June deep sea fishing finishes with a Bang!

Another amazing weekend of deep sea fishing and fun this last weekend of June! Exactly the type of weekend we would all  no doubt love to be able to replicate every time. And what a great way to finish the June Fishing month! (Next Saturday is the 1st July already!)

One of the groups we had the pleasure of hosting the last weekend in June.

It sort of seems like ages since we had a full weekend of fantastic weather conditions here on the Sunshine Coast. The month started beautifully, and now has clearly ended in a similar vein. It was the middle bit that wasn’t that great…. Mind you, the guys at BOM didn’t help. June would have to be one of the worst forecasting months they have had in memory! Days forecast with 40 knots and 4 to 5m swell turned out to be 10 knots and 1m swell. (Just a tad off!!!….) and the one time they forecast perfect conditions – for our overnight deep sea fishing charter of course! –  they were off by about 15 knots as well! Luckily we had a pretty hardy group aboard!

At least this last weekend we had lovely conditions. The seas were calm with a gentle rolling swell. The fishing was really good, and we had a great bunch of guests to join us this weekend.  We were lucky enough to be out on the water to experience a wonderful sunrise and finished off the day with a cruisy sunset deep sea fishing charter on Saturday evening.

 

The wildlife seemed to also be enjoying to conditions with our regular visiting dolphin (we have nicknamed him Crusty because of a growth on the end of his nose) being just one of the highlights of the day.  Zoe, the newest member of our team, was delighted to be able to feed and film our regular visitor.

Crusty the dolphin turned up again looking for a few pillies!

We are now also starting to see a few more whales as we head out, but they are still mostly out wide. So we will continue keep an eye on them and will let you know when we will be starting our whale watching cruises.  Pelicans, al other birds resting on our rails all added to the delight of the being out on the water.

Saturday and Sunday were both Full Day deep sea fishing charters.  Our angler guests had a great weekend of fishing the Barwon Banks, pulling up a wide variety of good fish – red throat Emperor, Moses Perch, Maori Cod, Pearl Perch, Snapper, just to name a few. The conditions were in fact so gorgeous out on the water that we decided to “put it out there” and do a “Sunset Fish and Fun trip” (Still working on the name. Any ideas are welcome!) on the Sunday.  Everyone on board for that trip had an enjoyable time so we will be expanding on this, and most likely make it a regular thing but including a BBQ as well. Keep an eye on this space for more!

One of the BBQ lunches on the weekend. The crew cooked up a storm!

We left at 3.00 pm and returned at 8.00 pm. The crew said they could have stayed out longer as it was just nice being out there, and in addition the fish were biting well!

We have re-introduced our 9 hour sunset-evening charters for winter.  These depart at 11.00 am and return at 8.00 pm and are already filling up fast.  Grab a group of friends or hit the boss up for a corporate outing, you’ll have a ball with us out on Crusader 1!

Our July overnight charter booked out so quickly – first to be fully booked in fact – that we decided to set another July date to give everyone the opportunity to jump on board.  The next trip is scheduled for Monday 10th July returning Tuesday 11th July, 2017. Only half full at this point so if you are interested give us a yell!

If you want any further information about any of our trips just give Paddy a call on 0412 155 814 or email us, we will get back to you.

 

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