According to Dean Butler, the sand flats around Queensland's Fraser Island and Hervey Bay hold tremendous potential for Florida-style 'flats fishing' based primarily on line-burning golden trevally.
As a keen saltwater fly fisherman, my ultimate dream is to fish the shimmering flats of the Florida Keys. Dazzling images of this angling heaven have beckoned me from a thousand magazine pages and, more times than I'm comfortable admitting, I have slipped into fantasies of a classic glass-off on a Keys' flat, the water a mere 12-15 inches deep, with me the stealthy angler casting to the distant cruising shadows of tarpon . . .
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