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Great trip.  Its epic country up there but 16 days true bush camping is definitely enough for even the hardiest.  Problem with getting older is you want a comfy mattress and a cool breeze at the end of the day.

I run singles on metals, owners or gamakatsu singles.
go up two sizes and it still does not interfere with the action.

Why have you gone to singles?  
In response to the OP - mostly they will be #1 in that weight class for the Nomads from my experience.  Some of the Halcos I think are 1/0 once you get up to 60+gm.  
 

Nice fish. That's quite a sounder picture!

Great trip. I miss those parts of qld badly these days! Good job. Totally understand the pact on the social media issue.... By the time I can get free of the burden of seq, the places I developed fond memories up there will likely have kerbed asphalt all the way and free WiFi at a flash concrete ramp...
Nice fish. Well done. I really hope the annual trip becomes a thing👍

If it has a 6hp motor it requires registration. You would need to drop to 4hp to avoid registration.

Sounds like a great time, Steve. How many ways did you prepare fish for dinner ? haha
It must have been a good time, for everyone to want to do it annually.
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Good day, Ray. Conditions completely opposite to the other day. Very nice.

Sounds like a great time, Steve. How many ways did you prepare fish for dinner ? haha
It must have been a good time, for everyone to want to do it annually.
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It was a great trip Brian. We had the best camp cook I have ever met with us so we had lots of great meals. We had fish most nights- curried, fried, cooked with a mango salsa etc. Highlight was plain old fish and chips. Huge chunks of threadie with crunchy chips. Absolutely delicious!  Catch up for a fish soon!

Great fish Steve!  Sounds like an amazing trip.

Top trip.
Great report.
Super Photos.

Looks like a great trip Steve, nice work on all the good fish. 

Good onya Steve! 
Nice fish and report mate
I think i know that spotx in the logan river...... oh no, thats right sorry i was remembering the dead cows not the crocs, my memory is starting to slip 

Returned this week from a camping fishing trip to Cape York. I have done a few of these trips with the same guys so I knew we would have a good time, with lots of laughs, too many beers and a lot of hard yakka for us old fellas. 
None of my camping buddies are social media fans and we have a pact that we won’t post pictures that would identify each other or the locations we fished. None of these spots are secrets but the fear is that the more online exposure they get, the more people will come and take away some of the remote feel. It wouldn’t be a problem anyway since zero coverage meant the phones were usually left at the camp uncharged. 
The original plan was to head north in the boats from Mapoon on the western Cape to camp at one of the rivers between Cullen Point and Seisha. The fishing there is insane. Unfortunately the road was still closed at Archer River, and since we were towing a couple of tonnes of boat and gear we decided that it would be a tough trip before the first grade of the dry season. So the decision was made to head to a location near Princess Charlotte Bay which we knew would be accessible and where we had caught barra and jacks previously. 
It was a long camp (16 nights) but we were well set up with plenty of solar, a 200 litre water bladder that we could refill from a freshwater dam not too far from camp, lots of food, 16 cartons of beer, a couple of cartons of wine and several bottles of spirits. 
Last time I went there it was virtually empty. This time there was a surprising number of camps. The May long weekend and the road closure may have contributed. People came and went over the period of our stay. The place is extremely croccie so I was pleased we camped well back from the water. This big fella was floating around in front of the camp, up and down with the tide for most of the time we were there. We called him Mr Stinky and estimated he was at least 4.5 metres 

Not sure if he was shot by someone or died of natural causes  
The first 2 days was the run up to the new moon and Barra were boofing everywhere. Others were using livies and it took us most of  the first day to find them. We tried trolling but only managed blue salmon which were good size but not what we came for so they were used as strip bait and crab bait. That worked a treat and we started getting big threadies (or kingies as they call them up north).  I don’t know how many we caught but several each and none were under the magic metre mark.

The Barra were getting harder to find as tides started to get smaller, as were the livies. We switched back to lures and got a few. They were all 70cm+ so the quality was there even if the numbers were down  I got my PB of 85cm (previously 82cm) but am yet to crack the metre.

The last few days the barra and threadies slowed right down and we were catching more sharks and catfish. Blue salmon kept biting but we didn’t get a single jack, which is unusual there.  Mud crabs were pretty reliable and we only lost 2 pots to crocs or sharks. 
By the end of the camp we were all pretty tired and over the mosquitoes and snakes, so ready for the big pack up and 2 day trip back to Cairns. We had a few mechanical failures as is usual on those sorts of trips (2 blown trailer tyres, 1 blown tyre on the tow vehicle, trailer hydraulic brakes taken out by a flapping blown tyre, and one of the batteries for the Minn Kota stopped charging on the last day) so overall not a bad result. We are planning to make this an annual trip now that most of us are retired. Fish while you can! Sorry there are not more photos but you can get the idea. Tight lines everyone  
 
 

Top report.
Great photos.

Good day, Ray. Conditions completely opposite to the other day. Very nice.

They are very good fish. Eva got three of those mac tuna. 

Good day, Ray. Conditions completely opposite to the other day. Very nice.

Well done, Ray. You don't often see it chopped up like that.

Great land based fishing. How do you get them to go to school ? haha

Magic day today after having to work out how to deploy Ricks new ulterra. After doing some of the shrimp traps We found fish at the bunyip tree but they were on the small side so we moved about 1k upstream and hit the spot lock and did not move until we ran out of bait at 10.30. Final tally was 64 bass and 2 yellas. Joy really enjoying the auto deploy on the new motor. Best bass 47

Super photos.
Well done.

Kayak's are even cheaper.

If it has a 6hp motor it requires registration. You would need to drop to 4hp to avoid registration.