CAIRNS - Shhhh Lyndon fished on a Sunday.

Finally a perfect weekend, all be it a Sunday so Bill, Luke and Lyndon packed up the boat and we headed out to the reef for some fishing. Being Lyndon's first fishing trip on a Sunday since departing for Tonga he was a little interested to see if the God's would shine on him. On our way out the weather improved the further out we got. Also I warned Bill that I am a DPI magnet (fisheries officers) and he just laughed "never see them out here" he said. There were heaps of people out but the fishing was extremely hard with no bait around, bad tides and 1/2 moon but when the weather permits it seems nothing will stop people heading out, even the cost of fuel which isn't much better in Oz these days.

Bill loves his new toy and she rides well too. Although in weather like this BLAH BLAH would too.

It seems Dyl and Luke run the same fishing theories on fishing, the Dad's drive and they sleep. That is until a reel goes off then get out of their road.

Now this could be a reef off Tonga it was that nice. Luke took the chance to flick some lures at some schools of fish off Sudbury Cay.

Just cause I can! Shame it isn't in the water I fixed that quickly after taking this shot though. 

Luke was keeping score and some how he even had negative points??? Bill had no dramas as he pulled in coral trout like this one.

Now this could be a good negative fish. Luke was quite the shark wrangler.

This Barracuda was more on the money and from our last stop too. Now back to the "DPI magnet" comment from earlier. Not minutes after pulling in this fish we had a boat come screaming around the corner. "Hello boys can we come aboard?" I was smiling so much I forgot to ask them for a photo, Bill wasn't smiling as much as it was his first visit and he now has a few small things to fix before the next boating trip but thankfully I didn't have to swim home.

Seems that both Dyl and Luke like driving boats. Best we be careful it wont be long and all Bill and I will be doing is dropping them off at the ramp.

Luke and some of the haul. 3 coral trout, 1 red throat emperor and 2 large Barracuda which got cut into fridge size pieces and dropped off to the Tongan boys. They ate them raw that same night too. Yum Quirky, when are you going fishing again? Not soon enough my friends, not soon enough. Thanks Bill and Luke it was a great day and hopefully we will have many more when we return to Cairns.