Paradise Found – The Eclipse Cape York Experience by Simon Goldsmith

Fishing from sunrise to sunset each day as you leap-frog your way along the Cape, a week on the mothership 'Eclipse' will produce a blur of angling mayhem. For Daiwa BARRA Tour winner Arthur Lovern and crew, this was definitely the case. A handful of sessions stand out though, and perfectly highlight the diversity and quality of fishing available when you spend a week in angling heaven.

1. Action Jackson

The afternoon of day two of the trip was a lesson in tuna feeding mayhem, with waves of feeding mack and longtail tuna decimating bait balls only a kilometre off the beach at the mouth of Jackson River. With scant regard for the running outboard and the slapping hull of the boat, the schools roamed around at speed, inhaling any bait they could find.

"It was amazing to see, the ocean was like a wave of tuna surfing across the water. You'd see them coming towards the boat and they just wouldn't stop feeding, eating as they swam towards the boat, around the boat, and under it...