Cardwell fishing
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Printed Date: 02 Feb 2026 at 2:12am
Topic: Cardwell fishing
Posted By: EKO
Subject: Cardwell fishing
Date Posted: 23 Oct 2012 at 1:42am
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We shot up to Cardwell which is 2 hrs drive from Townsville on Thursday night for a weekend of LB fishing. Waking up early in the morning cooking bacon & eggs kissing the wife good bye, I jumped into the car and headed 500m down the road to the jetty. The water was brown, not like the normal color which is blue ekk.  7 Sharks later , bull nose, hammer head & reef sharks coming up , dam. Day two same again but managed to get a nice size Grunter . Day 3 headed back home to Townsville stopped at Lucinda for a fish lines in the water once again bloody reef sharks a good work out but nothing to eat.  Now the funny thing is the reef shark took off, then I got it back to shore after 10 mins , then it ran me up the beach, then down to the stinger net which was fuc&&k lol I was trying to get the young kids away, but with th PS parents not giving a stuff lol I dragged the shark out , 1 min later they saw the shark fin and gapped it lol. Any way the shark as I thought was tired did one big kick and snapped my line. Not bad for 60 pd braid & 80 pd trace  ------------- Its not about the size of your boat! "But how you use it |
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Posted By: Titahi
Date Posted: 23 Oct 2012 at 3:58pm
Plenty of mullet swimming beside the wharf though eh! Have you tried fishing up at the weir in townsville for Barra yet? When the wet starts they congregate underneath it waiting for stuff being flushed down the river  ------------- "I love standing by the ocean and just knowing what its for" |
Posted By: EKO
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2012 at 1:03am
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Yeah we need the rain lol ------------- Its not about the size of your boat! "But how you use it |
Posted By: Titahi
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2012 at 11:39am
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It aint called Brownsville for nothing :) ------------- "I love standing by the ocean and just knowing what its for" |
Posted By: EKO
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2013 at 1:02am
Some pomy said she looked at a sea snake lol dumass it was a tipain ------------- Its not about the size of your boat! "But how you use it |