Cairns Estuary Fishing Crabbing – Half Day Tour 🎣🦀
If you want a true local-style adventure, Cairns Estuary Fishing Crabbing is the perfect half-day escape on the calm waters of Trinity Inlet. You’ll cruise past lush mangroves and spot tropical wildlife while you fish productive estuary channels and check the crab pots for live mud crabs.
What makes this tour so much fun ⭐
• Half-day options: morning (8:30am–12:30pm) or afternoon (1:30pm–5:30pm)
• Lunch + water + soft drink included, so you can simply relax and enjoy
• All gear supplied: rods, reels, bait, plus crab pot and bait
• Comfortable boat with shade canopy and a toilet onboard
What you might catch 🐟🦀
Depending on the tide and conditions, you can target a mix of popular estuary species. It’s not unusual to hook into Mangrove Jack, Barramundi, Trevally, Queenfish, Flathead, Cod and more — plus you’ll also pull up live mud crabs from the pots.
Your catch, your choice ✅
Best of all, any legal-size fish you land can be released, taken home, or prepared onboard — including sashimi when suitable. So, you can go from “hook-up!” to “how good is lunch?” in no time.
A few extra touches 🍻
And if you’d like to make it even more laid-back, you can BYO a couple of beers or wine — there’s an esky and ice onboard. Cheers to that.
In short: Cairns Estuary Fishing Crabbing is an easy, scenic, action-packed half day that gives you the best of fishing and crabbing in one go. 🎣🦀✨
Highlights
- The vessel offers a full canopy and toilet facilities. Specially designed for calm water cruises.
- Everything is supplied and for any legal size, fish caught. You can choose to either release it, take it home, or have it cooked on board or make sashimi (wasabi, soy sauce, chilli sauce).
- During the summer months, the birdlife is at its best. Making this a bird watchers paradise.
- The winter months will often see saltwater “Estuarine Crocodiles” basking on the banks and mudflats offering a unique look at these modern-day dinosaurs in their natural habitat.
Itinerary
Morning tours
Departs 8:30am – Return 12:30pm
Afternoon tours
Departs 1:30pm – Return 5:30pm
Included
- Rod, reel and bait
- Crab pot and bait
- Hot lunch, water and soft drink
- All you need to bring is sun glasses and a camera to catch all the action
- There is an esky and ice on board so fell free to bring a few beers or wine to make your fishing in Cairns even better!
How to get there
CHECK-IN: 15 minutes before the selected scheduled departure at Marlin Marina, finger C3.
