Final results are in and congratulations to the team on the 32 Cabo Express Shamwarri who took out Champion Team and Champion Boat with 9 black marlin tagged from Reel Capture with 9 black marlin tagged and Tigercat also on 8. In the under 6.5m category, Sailfisher lead with 3 black marlin and 1 striped marlin tagged from Out Quoting with 3 black marlin.

Some of the other trophies included Champion Overall Male angler went to Ronan Lynch on Scalded with 5 black marlin while Champion Overall Female went to Carmen McCloy on Caboom with a blue marlin tagged. The juniors also got in on the action with Ryan McKinnon taking away the Junior trophey for his 3 black marlin and wahoo capture.

Final stats were 246 strikes, 196 hookups, 102 tags or captures exceeding line class comprising, 76 black marlin, 3 blue marlin and one striped marlin. 16 wahoo, 3 mahi mahi, 2 barracuda and a cobia from 41 boats.

Congratulations to all who competed!

Results from Day 1 of the Sunshine Coast Gamefish Classic from Capt. Rob Smith. 41 boats have entered and there were 42 tags recorded on the first day. The leaderboard sees 4 boats each with 6 black marlin including Craig McCulloch's 7.2 Kevlacat Reel Capture with Dave Granville aboard, Roger Bayzand's 28 Black Watch, Peter Matthews' 32 Cabo Express and Kym Lynch's 26' Grady White.  Rob reports fish are being caught from the Gold Coast to Noosa Canyons and I hear that one boat fishing off the Gold Coast went 16-15-6 (including 5 double hookups)!

Two blue marlin were tagged at Noosa Canyons and Cape Moreton, one to the 36' Black Watch Watch Ya Problem and the 5.8 Fisher trailerboat Sailfisher.

Outside the tournament also on the Gold Coast yesterday, the current slowed and the fish showed up again with Capt. Ross McCubbin on Lucky Strike treating his guests to another great day on the water with 9 from 11 black marlin in 80m east of the Seaway between 40 and 70kg.

Lastly, did anyone see this in the Courier Mail online this morning? Underwater video footage on the GBR from some of AIMS (Australian Institute of Marine Science) short-lived 'Baited Remote Underwater Video Stations' - go here.

We just squeezed in a quick video editing session while we had KEKOA's hard drive handy to make a clip of some fantastic big eye tuna action from the end of the 2009 season when Capt. Luke and the boys fished out wide. You can check it out on You Tube here (some stills from the footage below). Also, Clayton sent me the link to the You Tube clip of his 1100lb-er on board Joe Joe during the season - here. Thanks Clayton!

A reminder that the Sunshine Coast Gamefish Classic is on this weekend with the briefing tonight at the Marina Bar at the Kawana Waters Hotel. Capt. Rob Smith reports that the Sunshine Coast season has so far been very consistent with the best day so far being 8 rom 9.

In the tournament lead up, Reel Capture released 4 little blacks on the 10 mile on Saturday while Ymer and Bite Me also got in on the action with one a piece. Boats fishing the tournament have the option to fish heavy or light tackle and with reports that Watch Ya Problem have also tagged a few blues, the tournament boats should be spread far and wide.

Photos from Eddie Jebreen on Ymer of Ben's leaping black and Smithy backing down hard on Triton IV. We're looking forward to hearing the results as they come in.

Quick Gold Coast report from Capt. Ross on Lucky Strike. Ross reports that fishing has slowed down out wide because the current is running putting the bait schools down deep. Raf from Doug Burts Tackle World got 3 small blacks on Saturday in close.

Lucky Strike had a Ladies day on Sunday going 0 from 6 on sailfish but Jackie tagged her 1st marlin late in the day.

Congrats Jackie!

Meanwhile, more reports trickling in from Port Stephens. Brent reports that Billistic did their first trip of the season on Australia Day Tuesday and had a good day with 2 blacks and 2 stripes on skipbaits.

Reports from the weekend have yet to filter in, but some more reports from Capt. Ross McCubbin on the Gold Coast fleet late week have --- Thursday, Matt from Fish The Deep tagged 10 black marlin to 100kg and Gavin from Sea Probe tagged 9 to 130kg. On Friday, C-Jig tagged 8 up to 100kg while Sea Probe tagged another 5.

Also, report from Botany Bay GFC boat Marquis skippered by Rob Curry who are in Port Stephens for the next month and went 3-3-3 in their last two days fishing before the weekend, 2 stripes and 1 black. Ambition with Ivan Bennet at the helm also tagged two blues and a black. Mickey reports there is lots of bait everywhere.

Capt. Luke and I are back in FNQ and until the weekend had been roaring around Cleveland Bay at 35knots in the new KEKOA..... And then last night we had to move it to a more secure mooring due to ex-tropical cyclone Neville crossing the coast just south of us. Fortunately we were all spared full cyclone fury and its just been a bit wet really.

Pictures of KEKOA in action to come. So far I haven't been able to take any running shots because I've been on board! (This is a shot of Peter bringing her back to O'Brien Boats this morning complete with rain on the lens.)

The final results for the Port Macquarie Blue Water Legal Golden Lure tournament are in and by all reports it was another great tournament with teams enjoying some of the best weather conditions they've had for the past few years.

The final two days for the fleet marked a noticeably quieter Thursday but Friday bounced back again with good numbers raised. Total hookups throughout the comp were --- 76 hookups on day 1, 66 on day 2, 33 on day 4 and 73 on the final day (Saturday).

Top 5 Capture Boats:
1. CARNAGE (Broken Bay) 35755.55 pts
2. WAVE RIDER (Lake Macquarie) 28910.36 pts
3. CARE FACTOR (Port Macquarie) 19181.40 pts
4. IONA 2 (Lake Macquarie) 19044.00 pts
5. CALYPSO (Port Macquarie) 14319.89 pts

Champion Male Capture Anglers:
1. Ross Shaw (Carnage) 20663.55 pts for Broken Bay GFC
2. David Moses (Wave Rider) 20149.40 pts for Lake Macquarie GFC

Champion Female Capture Angler:
1. Roz Hutchison (Purple Haze) 7361.64 for Port Macquarie GFC

Champion Junior Capture Angler: John Paton (Carnage) 15092 pts for Broken Bay GFC
Champion Small Fry Capture Angler: Brock Van Kampen (Roclami) 1256.28 pts for Port Macquarie GFC

Top 5 T&R Boats:
1. RENEGADE 2 (Port Macquarie) 50329 pts
2. BEAR (Ocean Grove, VIC) 44113 pts
3. BLACKFIN (Coffs Harbour) 34063 pts
4. TIMEOUT (Lake Macquarie) 30209 pts
5. WEAPON (Lake Macquarie) 30150 pts

Champion Male T&R Anglers:
1. Jarrod Quinn (Bear) 35613 pts for Port Macquarie GFC
2. Phil Kenny (Renegade 2) 30129 pts for Port Macquarie GFC

Champion Female T&R Anglers:
1. Kylie Barr (Mustang) 20079 pts for Port Macquarie GFC
2. Roz Hutchisonn (Purple Haze) 25 pts for Port Macquarie GFC

Champion Junior T&R Angler: Dylan Steel (Blackfin) 25563 pts for Coffs Harbour GFC
Champion Small Fry T&R Angler: Brock Van Kampen (Roclami) 58 pts for Port Macquarie GFC

The heaviest marlin went to Todd Fisher on Long Time Dead at 189.6kg (418lb) on 37kg. Myles Hyland on Weapon had the heaviest shark at 166.8kg and Greg Frith, fishing on board Janashia captured the heaviest other game fish with a 74.8kg yellowfin tuna.

Thanks to Greg and the tournament committee for the information.