Cavy Fishing has uploaded one of the most ambitious shore-based tuna pieces of the Australian fishing year - a feature-length recon to a remote Northern Territory sand island with his partner Sam.
The trip's premise is straightforward. The pair had a weather window, an idea, and an island they had never set foot on.
"We pulled the pin and made a split-second decision to chase a dream: catching a Giant Tuna from the shore," Cavy says. "Between wild weather gaps and a brutal recon mission to a remote sand island neither of us had ever fished, we knew this was going to be an all-or-nothing trip."
The rigging is built around shore-based pelagic work. Three reels each - 5,000 through 8,000 sizes - long-cast spinning rods, polarised glasses for sight-casting, and the new 40-gram fast-sinking Long Caster stickbait Cavy spends much of the gear walk-through introducing.
"In this box, the magic box, we have Current Killer range with the new dropped Phantom. This thing's sick," he says. "And these little guys, they're going to be tuna slayers. So this thing is 40 g and it's so small. 40 g fast-sinking stick bait. We're going to be launching them off the beach."
The line, fittingly, is the kind that suits long-running fish off the sand - PE 3 with 300 metres on the spool.
"It's PE 3, but yeah, like 40-something pound, I think. It's 300 m," Cavy says. "It'd get you out of trouble if longies off the rocks."
"We're just going to try and boat camp it. It's chill," he narrates, before pivoting. "All right, we might be beach camping it. I'll jump in. See how we go from the shore."
The fish, however, are exactly where Cavy and Sam had hoped they would be. Long-tail tuna and mackerel show up tight against the beach almost as soon as the rods are rigged.
"Yep, yep, yep, tuna, tuna, tuna," Cavy says. "We just got here and we saw long-tail tuna already. They're on the shore."
The first fish is, on the surface boil, a long-tail. On the bank it turns out to be a mackerel, but Cavy's reaction is matter-of-fact.
"Captain Burleigh got us onto - we thought a longtail, but ended up being mackerel, which fight equally as hard pretty much," he says.
From there the trip turns on visual cues that anyone who has fished the Northern Territory beaches knows.
"Birds are the best fishermen," Cavy says. "So basically, they're our cues. We see birds moving over something. So much better."
The core pay-off is the trip's deliberate set piece. Both Cavy and Sam land what Cavy describes simply as monster tuna from the sand.
"We actually did it. Both of us landed monster Tuna right off the beach. From the sand," he says. "A true bucket-list moment turned into reality."
"That was a successful trip. We pulled off the recon," Cavy says. "That was sick. Brothers in arms. Let's go."