Just a quick note as I have had a comment or two wondering where I am. I am on the trip of a lifetime. From the time as a boy I saw Lee Marvin catching 1000 pound Black Marlin I have dreamed of Cairns, the Reef, and the Cairns Big Game Fishing Club. The dream of a boy growing up in the cornfields of Iowa, this is every thing and more. Rarely does the reality meet the expectation, but this a dream that I hope I never wake up from and it makes me emotional just writing this. No disrespect to our fishing, but having a fancy flats boat and catching big trout is cool, but this puts that in perspective. We might think we are all that, well buddy boy, this is the freakin’ real deal.
I just fished 2 days on the Great Barrier Reef. We have been burning the candle at both ends, so much to see and do, Australia is one fantastic country. So while I had plans to post on these trips, it is not happening, just do not want to waste a minute. Tomorrow it is as a day on the Daintree River, a river bordering a tropical heritage rain forest. Hope to catch a barramundi, a big one on my bucket list, the guide said maybe some Queenfish off the beach popper fishing. Then head into the jungle on the river to see the giant man eating crocs. Crazy! On the reef I caught a juvenile blue marlin, some awesomely cool mackeral, along with some beautiful bottom fish today. Luckily after tomorrow’s river trip I get one more day of trolling on the reef. So we are alive and well, and as soon as we get back I will post pics with lots to tell. One week to go. I have not forgot you all, as the Aussie’s say, “No worries Mate!”
Good Luck and Tight Lines
