South East Charters

02/02/2025

Had 3 lovely Irish ladies and Shane😂 today . Lots of banter and a fun day with the goal of catching plenty of different species. Kept a few flatties and perch for a feed and the rest were released . A few hours of trolling and we don’t manage to turn a reel . I learnt they also have wrasse in Ireland the same as ours 😮 and they are valued the same there as here thrown back 😂

01/02/2025

Not a big one (56 cm) but our first kingfish this year in windlass bay(triabunna)

20/01/2025

Family group from Sydney today for half day . They didn’t want to keep any fish just hoping for a tuna and as many different varieties as possible. Spent first hour trolling with no luck then a few hours bottom bashing . We got wrasse,barbers perch, cod, flathead king and sandies leather jackets gurnet , octopus and jack mackerel. Decided to use the last hour back on the troll and after 30 mins reel screaming and a nice little bluefin to finish the trip.

17/01/2025

Windy conditions made for a reduced fishing area but we found some nicer conditions north of Maria island . Size flathead were hard to come by with lots of little ones . Found a few size king flathead a few perch and wrasse but catch of the day was Marks nice gummy . So tea was sorted before heading back to Melbourne

16/01/2025

New rear seat great job by Pete and the boys shore upholstery

05/01/2025

Had Gray and his family down from Sydney out today. We were plagued by small flathead and Mackrel early and then managed a 45 cm sandy which had to be released. We moved out to deeper water at Northern end of Maria still small flatties but managed to pick a few King Flathead amongst them with a few real nice ones. Throw in a few wrasse , octopus, sting rays, perch. barbers perch and gurnet and there was plenty of action to keep everyone busy

04/01/2025

Another top day on the water with Mark his daughter Emma and son in law Dave . Plenty of flatties early before heading around back of Maria but wind restricted areas to fish but managed a good number of perch including a few nudging 40 cm .and Dave proved to be mackerel king winding them in 2 at a time 😂 Only downside was the 6 skates we hooked most busting us off

31/12/2024

Last charter for 2024 and it was a good one with Rick and his son Kai Headed down mercury passage . Got a good feed of flatties then headed out to deep water south of the bouy in the boat no sooner had the lines hit the bottom than we notice massive amount of terns diving a couple of hundred meters away . Headed over hoping it was salmon or even better a kingfish first pass and a line was absolutely screening off a 5 minute fight and had a good look at it a bluefin 😮unfortunately broke it off at the boat the 8lb leader was no match 😀 spent an hour with them losing 2 more before we got one in with the smile on Kai’s face saying it all his biggest fish and first bluefin . Wishing everyone a happy new year and stay safe

31/12/2024

Last charter of 2024 with Rick and his son Kai we headed down Mercury Passage and got a nice feed of flatties . We then headed south of the bouy in the boat to try for a king flathead . No sooner had our lines hit the bottom that I noticed a large number of terms hovering and then start diving ,we headed over hoping for a salmon or a kingfish first pass and line was screening off no salmon after a 5 minute battle we got it up to see was a bluefin tuna unfortunately on 8 lb flatly gear we busted it off at the boat . We trolled around for an hour losing 2 more before finally Kai landing his biggest fish ever and first tuna the smile said it all . Have a great news year and stay safe

28/12/2024

Had a half day today with Nikki her husband Mitch and dad Scott . Bit breezy early and the flathead fired got a feed and through a lot of 40+cm ones back in the first hour or so, hardly any little ones today . Nikki proved to be the gurnet king with some nice fillets coming off them. Then tried southern end of Maria island for a king flathead still only finding little ones the bigger ones being hard to find atm . Spent the last half an hour having a troll in the hope of a kingfish with no luck.

22/12/2024

First charter of the "summer season" from Orford today with Tracey and Hilton. Absolutely perfect morning with hardly a breath of breeze and we managed a feed of flatties, a gurnet and a few Wrasse before heading to Maria Island and finding a feed of Calamari. The wind came up around lunch time making bottom fishing difficult so we then decided to have a bit of a troll hoping for Salmon or a Kingfish, Found a lone salmon So a nice mixed bag to take home.

21/07/2024

After having to cancel last couple of weekends due to weather was nice to get back out today. Beautiful start to the day with the Hippolytes basking in the sun . Unfortunately the fishing was slow with only the 1 bluefin he was at least a bigger schoolie . From what we heard there was only 1 other blue caught so we should be grateful

06/07/2024

Locki getting the job done yesterday

23/06/2024

Mixed weekend slow day yesterday with only 2 tuna both of which we lost. Today 20 mins after starting had birthday boy James catch his first bluefin . Pretty steady for next 2 hours with another 7 caught and released including a 4 way hookup in Munroe which included James mum Alison catching her first Bluefin and my daughter who was along for the ride catching her first one also, slowed a bit after that with another 3 before pulling pin to head in early

08/06/2024

No tuna today but lots of whales (no we didn’t catch any 😂) we were lucky enough to spot a couple a km from ramp and stopped the engines a few hundred meters away so the guys could get some photos we drifted there for about 10!mins and they swam right up to us said hello and continued on their way awesome end to the day

02/06/2024

Couple of birthday trips in last few days fishing was a little slow. Thursday had group of gents over from Sydney for a 50th landed 1 and lost 1. And today’s group from northern tassie ticking of a bucket list fish with a first bluefin for the birthday boy . Both fish were better than average schoolies

11/05/2024

A PB bluefin for Elliott from Melbourne today with this nice one.

20/02/2024