RAM Road Trip Part 3

I’m on a RAM truck journey to Capricornia.

Not only does the V8 Hemi sound fantastic, it’s definitely not as thirsty as you’d expect from a V8. The 5.7 litre Hemi engine is equipped with fuel saver technology that deactivates half of the engine cylinders when less power is needed resulting in more efficient fuel consumption.

And I’m grateful for that because I’m on a journey that will cover more than seventeen hundred kilometers along Queensland’s Bruce Highway.

And the RAM certainly lives up to its namesake when it comes to performance on the job. It easily tows my Yellowfin and rack mounted Hobie perched above the roomy comfortable cab.

The first step of my trip is from South Queensland’s Gold Coast to Keppel Bay on the Capricorn Coast.

Keppel Bay Marina is superbly situated to allow access to numerous islands dotting this section of waterway. I’ll be staying aboard the comfortable Elysium cruiser and fishing from both my Yellowfin and Hobie Compass.

Graham, Dean and I are not alone. A small pod of Humpback Whales are also visiting the Percy Islands where Elyssium is anchored in one of Middle Percy Island’s leeside bays.

We depart middle Percy Island and head further south to High Peak Island and pull up beside a rocky out crop which looks very coral trouty.

We’re wearing comfortable Bigfish shirts – perfect clothing for the hot humid tropics and just like that the pilchard barely hits bottom and whammo Trout time.

We decide to pull in the Shimano Coral Trout tackle and troll for Mackerel around the rocky island with shallow diving Lures.

Spotted by something savage my lure is smashed.

Hungry pelagics of all shapes and sizes feed on baitfish at these island points where the currents push onto.

A solid Spanish Mackerel hits the deck of the Yellowfin, and a grilled mackerel lunch aboard our live aboard Elyssium sounds like a grand idea.