I recently had the pleasure of fishing a major threesome - Rod Harrison [Harro], Don McPherson [Platypus Lines] and American Jim Vincent[Rio Fly Lines]. Our first day dawned bright blue and I was excited to get out on the water. I had some great plans for the guys electing to start off casting around some heavy structure that historically holds good numbers of Giant Trevally. This hot spot attracts great fly rod size fish, around 2 to 5 kilo, but the real challenge is dealing with a hookup - fish runs around structure, fisherman freaks, 50-50 % to the boat! With no fish landed out of 4 hookups and some classic GT wipeouts, the fish got smart and didn't want to play any more. We opted to move on.

Recently a young guy named Matt Palmer from the Sunshine Coast Qld joined me for a day out in Hervey Bay. Conditions were near perfect with a slight SE blowing in the early hours of the morning that did not get above about 10-15knots all day.He opened the day by catching a Giant Trevally that we estimated to be 2 kilos (4.5lbs) and the fishing just got better from there on.The first session of the day was spent throwing soft plastics jigs and we caught mackerel, trevally and a big Queenfish of around 6kilo+. We did this while waiting for the tide to rise enough to enable us to get up on the flats.