queensland Who Has Fished Hamilton Island?

[Angus]

Might be heading up to Hamilton Island for a family/couples holiday in June.

Will have a bit of time to dedicate to fishing so the rods will be going.

Charters in the area are a consideration but to be honest they are expensive and I have never enjoyed being loaded onto the cattle trucks.

With this in mind has anyone any experience with:

a: land based fishing on Hamilton

b: hiring your own boat and winging it!

Any stories, pictures, advice welcome.

Angus 

[The Mad Hughesy]

we hired a boat out when we stayed there for NYE last year. it was a lot of fun. I nabbed a few legal grassy sweetlip, and caught countless different types of cod and other tropical fish. id recommend hiring your own boat to create your own adventure!

[The Mad Hughesy]

 

id advise taking all your own gear. All these were caught on really poor quality gear and dodgy bait. Next time I go I will be taking plastics galore...

[Oggy174]

sounds like fun, always wanted to travel up there and go fishing heard some good reports about Hamilton

good luck on your fishing adventure hope you catch a few decent fish and looking forward to a report about your fishing adventure

Oggy

[Angus]

@christophagus mate that would def be a plan. I think with the time we are there we would do one guided trip and then try and hire a boat. Funnily enough except for big sailing boats etc I have had little luck finding decent boats to hire our of Hamo. Do you remember the company you used?

@Oggy174 thanks mate. It won't be for a while (the report) but I love to plan this sort of thing

 

Angus

[Oggy174]

Yeah good to plan these types of trips, hope it all goes well when you go and you catch some great fish 

oggy

[Old Scaley]

Just hang around the bar, Angus.  Bound to be someone there with a 60 footer and a wife who wants to spend the day at the spa.  Surely they will need a deckie??

[The Mad Hughesy]

@Angus im not sure of the exact business name but here are the details about it. http://www.hamiltonisland.com.au/fishing-and-boating/dinghy-hire . from memory, it is the only place to hire a boat out from

 

it is a bit pricey, so im unsure how it compares to guided trips... then again everything on Hamilton island is that bit more expensive than the mainland..

[Angus]

@Old Scaley Hang around at the bar? If I have to.

@christophagus thanks mate that is def worth checking out thanks. Prices are exy but not more than i would have thought for hamo for the freedom to explore.

@admin @John Mate this ability to tag people into conversations if probably my favorite thing in the migration.

 

Angus

[John]

@Angus and it gives them notifications when you do tag them 

[Angus]

@John yes this is the part I like. As forum activity becomes more fluid and varied I think this will be really amazing at keeping people in touch with the threads they have been/are involved in. Really cool feature.

 

Angus

[bluefin59]

A couple of years ago we hired one of the little hire boats and trolled our way down the channel and down near the airport got smashed big time by a massive mackerel but had to cut it of at the boat as we weren't carrying any thing to deal with such a monster, then we went down the channel and fished plastics in a couple of spots and caught a good variety of fish including a coral trout that we took back to our room and devoured . Matt

[Yahne]

If you decide to go on a charter then Renegade fishing charters would be the pick of the lot. They operate out of Hammo. It is quite pricey but they always seem to catch a variety of fish. 

If you hire a boat there is a couple of good deep water drifts between Hammo and Dent Island. Which should land you Indo's and the odd Nanigai. 

Fishing the fridging reefs around Whitsunday Island between 15 - 40ft is ideal for trout, sweet lip and blueys.