The turn off to Balgowan Road is located about 4km north of Maitland on the Spencer Hwy where Balgowan Road turns into Main Street as you enter Balgowan 14km down Balgowan Road. Balgowan boat ramp is located at Warrenne point at the very western end of Main Street Balgowan. 

We generally leave the ramp about 7am but can leave earlier or later to suit the clients. We are usually hitting the ramp around 4pm but happy to stay out later to suit or if the fishing has been hard to ensure the esky is full.

Of course, this depends where you are coming from. Many of our customers come from Adelaide where the average trip is about 2 hours depending on what part. Renmark is just under 4 hours and Port Pirie just under 2 with many customers coming from these areas.

Whether we cancel or not depends on many factors that we go into a lot more detail in this Blog. But basically when the wind is forecast is over 15 knots for most of the day we do not go. More information in our blog.

We charge currently at the time of writing this $300 per head. Our costs are continuously going up so how long it stays at this price is very much dependant on what our world brings us. This price is a price per head up to12 customers and we need a minimum of 8 to make the day viable to do what we do. Of course we are always happy to take less people if they want the boat to themselves but the minimum costs for the day are 8 people at the per head costs.

Happy to come in earlier if the customers have somewhere to be but do not do discounted half day charters in general. The vessel survey means having a full crew so our costs do not really make it viable, although happy to discuss something to suit if we can make it work. We have taken quite a few local families out to drop their precious relatives ashes into the beautiful waters off Balgowan where they can RIP in their favourite part of the world. Most likely where I will end up!

Lunch and snacks are something that are too hard for us to supply with all the variety of medically forced diets and chosen favourites so please bring whatever suits you. We supply a great range of soft drink  and water but there is always your favourite beverage that you are always welcome to bring along.

Suitable clothing to keep you warm in winter or protect your self from the sun on our beautiful summer days are needed.

You are certainly welcome to bring some alcohol of your choice on board. Of course, we encourage sensible drinking and the crew needs to be zero but nothing better than celebrating an awesome day on the cruise back to the ramp with a cold beer.

Sea sickness is many peoples fear of getting out and enjoying what they want to do.

Getting a good night’s rest the night before and even the night before that is the best way to prevent sea sickness. Keeping alcohol intake to a minimum and or course taking many of the varieties of sea sickness tablets available an hour prior to getting on the boat definitely makes a difference.

There are other remedies available that will be covered in our blog.

We love seeing kids catching fish.

Of course, there is a minimum age for various legal and safety reasons

In general children need to be older than 10 and weigh 35kg or more.