Vrilya Point a long way off the beaten track, abt 30k of very beat up track with a beautiful beach at the end of it, found spot for us , another group with 4 bigger boats set up a short distance away, and were off to a flying start in their boats but went far out to the reef, came back with nothing, we went out closer to shore, tide was going out, everything set for tomorrow, good night with a fire,Geoff and I take the boat out mid morning, using our 100lbs lin...

Got our fishing gear out and set it up, boat is launched Capt Alf aboard , motor good starts quickly and off he went on trials , rods aboard with lures to try catch a barramundi, use a shallow driving lure, blade almost flat , anyway no luck. so after a day set off for Cape York. As you know with fishing everything has to be just right,the whole of the east QLD coast has strong onshore winds which is no go for fishermen, the idea is to try the east QLD coast...

Interesting place Birdsville, nothing much here but they have a small lake and it has a croc in it, they fish in it, catching yellow bellies which soak in a salt water and vinegar mix , which gets rid of the muddy taste and then its not bad at all. There are four old guys with a couple of early twenties Dodges which they are driving across Oz, they left this am and got abt 500 yards down the road when one had an autovac fail, which they replaced with a britis...