G'day Ianola,
Charters Towers in my old stomping ground, left Cairns in the '90's & moved the Mrs and our youug bubs out there looking for work/better life, lived and worked around there for 12yrs till 2008, been back once since we left, just last year when we did the Mount Fox run...... Good little town, our kids grew up there pretty much, even had another bub while we were there... then we moved back to Cairns which is where we are originally from.
Oh and if your ino your fishing, try the bottom of the weir wall in the towers, white water in amongst the rocks did hold Barra when i was there, or if you want to get adventuress ask a local for directions to "six mile" on the Burdekin, fishing the deeper pools from the boulders and rocks in the late arvo is a nice way to see the sunset, and u have every chance of landing a Barra, or Blackbream....... plenty of perch there too, but there nothing special.
Are u staying in the Towers?
catch ya.