Fish the Best of the West on an Unreel Kimberley Fishing Tour
Fish as much or as little as you like!
Our Buccaneer Archipelago scheduled tours have evolved to achieve a great balance of exploring and fishing at the optimal times. But if you just want to fish, fish, fish, we are happy to customise a fishing charter itinerary for your group.
We will plan a special fishing tour targeting whatever species are most likely to be active at the time and tide. Beginning on the rising neaps is often a good start. Foregoing some waterfalls and art, we could spend days in Secure Bay, Walcott Inlet or the Glenelg River, for example.
Our live aboard fishing charters can be from 4 to 10 days. Though our two 6M dinghies are larger than most, we recommend a max of 8 guests for days of intense casting.
All our tours are in and out of Broome. You will be collected from your Broome accommodation and then transferred by scenic flight to Cygnet Bay or overland by chartered bus to board our charter boat, MV King Tide.
Kimberley Fish
On the Kimberley Coast, you will find some of Australia’s best sport fishing opportunities, with the diversity of fish habitats – coral reefs, blue water, mangrove inlets, sand flats and tidal creeks, reflected in the many fish species that may be caught in these unspoilt waters.
Blue water Pelagics include Spanish Mackerel, northern Bluefin Tuna, Giant Trevally, Golden Trevally, Queenfish, Barracuda Longtom. Sharks are around because this is the real ocean, but not a big problem and a bull, tiger or big bronzie can be quite exciting to see.
Big Saddletail , Fingermark and all the other sea perches, Emperors, Coral Trout, Queensland Groper, and Cods are around the deeper reefs.
The Kimberley offers some of the best Barramundi fishing in Australia. You can also hook plenty of Mangrove Jack, Bluenosed Salmon, threadfin Salmon in the creeks.
Unreel Fishing Equipment
Bait Casting
- 4 x Abu-Garcia 6600 2-5 kg
Spin Casting
- 2 x Shimano 4000 2-5 kg
- 3 x Rovex Crossa 4000 2-5 kg
- 5 x Penn Slammer 360 2-5 kg
Medium – Heavy Spin Casting
- 4 x Penn Spinfisher 750 ssm
- 4 x Penn 850 ssm
- 4 x Penn 950 ssm 6- 12 kg
Medium Heavy Game
- 3 x Shimano TLD 20 15kg
- 3 x Shimano TLD 25 20kg
Heavy Game
- 1 x Finn-Nor 50 wide 24 kg
Cone Bay Mudcrabs
Cone Bay Blacklipped Oysters
Coral Trout from Myridi Reefs
Mangrove Jack from Dugong Bay
Longtail Tuna from yampi sound
Outer Islands Spanish Mackerel
Red Cone Creek Barra
Rowley Shoals GT
Rowley Shoals Pacific Salifish
Sale River Barra
Silvergull Lumps Trecally School
Talbot Bay Barra
Big Fingermark from Connilurus Island
Yampi Sound Spanish Mackerel
Yampi Sound Spanish Mackerel
A reel Giant Trevally
Caffarelli Is GT
Cone Bay Black Jewfish
Totally enjoyed our afternoon crabbing with Robin and Al. Their local knowledge and information made the day even more enjoyable. We took their advice on how to cook up the crabs and boy what a feast we had. Great experience in Derby
Ray and Carolyn
Fantastic morning out, did the 5 hour crabbing trip, we had our bag limit of good sized mud crabs within an hour of dropping the pots. Added bonus was the abundance of birdlife and also got up close and personal to a couple of saltwater crocs.
If you’re after a nice day out on the water and love eating muddies I couldn’t recommend this more highly.
Big thanks to Bruce and Rob for an amazing experience crabbing on board the Crusty! This knowledgeable crew talked us through navigating the huge tides of Derby and the dos and don't of crabbing, even how to wrangle the ones that somehow escaped the esky (no digits lost!) We even got to see some of the locals 🐊 definitely recommending Unreel Adventures to family and friends as a must do in Derby. Thanks, guys, and we will see you on our next trip !
The day started out well, with good tides and no wind, so getting out to the fish was easy. We caught about eight different species, and the kids had their work cut out winding in some big GTs. We were lucky enough to take home some lovely fillets of fingermark, bluebone and mangrove jack. With four lines going constantly, we burnt through plenty of bait, and the tackle held up well.
Bruce and Robin were great to chat with about Derby and the Buccaneer Archipelago, and I really enjoyed hearing their stories about the people in the area and the many trips and charters they’ve organised.
Many thanks to Bruce for his patience organising the booking and working it around our timing through Derby, and to Robin for keeping the bait up to us, putting the boat onto the fish, and showing us how to fillet a fish and remove the pin bones.
Thanks to Bruce and Robin.