The Gulf of Carpentaria is one of the most remote sections of coastline in Australia. There are few towns on the western side of Cape York, and if you have watched the documentary on Netflix called “The Cape”, you will get an insight into some of the people who live in this wild and remote part of Queensland. Unlike most coastlines of Australia, the Gulf of Carpentaria is very shallow, rarely reaching depths of over forty metres. It is fertile water, the epicentre of prawn trawling in Queensland. Tons of barramundi, threadfin salmon and Spanish mackerel are also commercially caught in this area, and due to the remote nature and difficult access few recreational anglers get to fish there. There are a number of mothership operations that seasonally fish in this area. In warmer months catches of over one hundred barramundi in a day are common. Unlike the Northern Territory, most of the rivers on the western side of Cape York are short, and while there are billabongs up behind these rivers, most of the good fishing is in the saltwater parts of the rivers.
On this trip we stayed on the mothership “Eclipse”. This boat is a veteran of this
