The Wai Tadra (Ocean Dream) is an apt name. It was a dream fishing in its salubrious surrounds. We were introduced to Brad (skipper), Rob (crew & part owner) and Johnnie (crew).

Marlin fishing is the first thing I would prescribe to the afflicted individual. Typically this involves a boat ride to cobalt blue water somewhere. Possibly it’s the salt air that helps.

Even so, all dories initially unloaded their catch to Kanimbla within the first hour as the weight of fish slowed them down and took up floor space. The tally of wahoo increased and ‘standing orders’ became ‘try to release all you catch’. The best guesstimate is that there were about sixty hook-ups from Wahoo in that early session. Dave caught a magnificent thirty three kilogram Wahoo that morning which went on to become ‘fish of the trip’.