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Another long day to get lucky in the last five minutes. But it wasn’t without its drama.
Reel Chase spent the day in close trolling from Broughton Island to Fingal Lighthouse without seeing a fish until going home time – once again, only minutes before winding the lines in. 200 metres off Fingal Reef, Dave’s patience paid off for a 45kg Black Marlin.
Iona won the Shootout with two Black Marlin on a count back from Born Free, Hatterascal and Fascination all fishing out on the shelf.
We can only hope the fishing gets better and the sun begins to shine for the resumption of the Interclub Tournament from tomorrow.
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On another day when the weather tends to deceive, we had a beautiful windless day in Port, the sun was shining and it was hot! Conversely, the boys on water
Reel Chase who headed north again to Seal Rocks (where we had been fishing over the weekend) found it cloudy and uncomfortable. The water was still brown and cold and the number of small Blacks who had been in the area were obviously not still around. Lucky for the team, in the vain search for warm blue water, they managed to tag a small black on the long trip home.
Boats fishing the shelf including Hatterascal had a much better day with three Stripeys tagged for the American guests from the Hatteras factory. Perry tells us there is a patch of nice water moving up from the south-east and the fishing on the shelf seems to be on the up again. Also in close, a patch of blue, 22 degree plus water from Broughton Island to Fingal Light produced a number of Black Marlin ranging from small 20kg fish to one nice sub-100kg fish. Trailer boat Warlock saw a number of fish in the same area tagging one after a busy day and Murrifin also tagged a Black.
However, most boats saw the big storm coming that had formed over land after the warm day, and made the wise decision to return home early. A spectacular lightening and thunder show with buckets of rain left us cowering indoors just after we had finished chamoi-ing the boat!
