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Hinchinbrook with Berkley

By Stephen Booth

Recently Fishing Monthly had the opportunity to spend a bit of time at Hinchinbrook while fishing the Port Hinchinbrook Fishing Classic. It’s a big event with two divisions that see the big game boats heading offshore to chase marlin and sailfish on 6kg and the smaller boats fishing the inshore division for the likes of trevally, coral trout, cobia, barra, jacks and more.

Our team consisted of four anglers, Travis Davies, Shayne McKee, Greg Livingstone and myself and we were fishing out of a brand new Formosa 5.5m centre console with a 135 Honda on the back loaned to us by the Tinnie Shack at Mission Beach.

When we arrived at Port Hinchinbrook and got to out accommodation, you can imagine how excited we were with the weather forecast suggesting good weather for two days and windy weather for two days. But what was more exciting was the little drain running behind our cabins. As we walked onto the balcony three jacks casually swam past us and we all dived for our lightest rods.

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