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Up, up & away – Adventure fishing

By Michael Guest

Flying in choppers around Cape York may sound like pie in the sky stuff for the average fisho. But, as Michael Guest explains, the benefits are amazing and it’s not as expensive as it sounds.

More often than not these days I find myself getting as much out of the journey as the actual fishing. By that I mean enjoying the sights and sounds that influence and control the environment chosen for the day’s piscatorial challenges. Examples of this include casting soft plastics around the base of Balls Pyramid, near Lord Howe Island, or flicking tiny lures up an ice cold southern Tasmanian trout stream, complete with towering flanked sides of old growth forest. Time spent in such locations is special, and often you remember more about the place than you do about the fish you catch. When Steven Philp of Australian Angling suggested the idea of some helifishing in FNQ as an opportunity to explore some even more remote locations, well, sometimes you have just got to go with the flow. Heli-fishing is nothing new but I’ve always thought of it as being limited to the rich and infamous. I discovered that’s not totally true. Continue…