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Well, the vicinity of the Sea Mount is definitely going off – if your name is Sparrow that is. We watched the Square Bear team catch 5 fish, including one blue and a black over the mark (left photo). Hard To Swallow also recording bites from big fish releasing at least one more as did The New Allure. The rest of the boats who joined the group Tuesday, mostly watching rather than experiencing, having to be content with some good size yellowfin tuna or an encounter with the whale shark. Mauna Kea had a bit of action on the way out to join the group, jumping off a blue and getting a bite from another. On Wednesday morning the group had swelled but most headed north to another aggregation of marlin reported by the long liners, while we headed back to the edge for a good night’s sleep.Right photo is a (little grainy) still from video of Capt. Luke’s monster from Monday.On the Bank, Shaka ever consistent, released another two fish. Also had a report from Brett on Watchdog of their recent trip out from Port Douglas. They headed wide for an early 6:30am bite from a nice blue just in the 400lb range. The client was still a sleep so deckie Damon jumped in the chair and reeled it in! But he didn’t miss out when an hour later they hooked a monster around the mark and was safely released her after an hours fight. Tuesday the team went wide again missing another good size black and another blue and later releasing another blue around 200. All up finished up with 6 from 11 – not a bad few days fishing!

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Word from Capt. Luke on KEKOA on the sat phone last night is that the Sea Mount is going off. Four boats out there are all getting a piece of the action.Capt. Brad Craft on the New Allure released two fish both he called over the mark. Basher on Hard to Swallow releasing one over the mark as well and Sparrow on Square Bear with 4 over the 700lb mark from 9 bites. Capt. Luke and team arrived early afternoon after jumping a smaller one off on the way and were hooked up to a monster within an hour. They fought the beast well into the dark for over 7 hours finally breaking the leader at 9pm. Heartbreaking stuff! Capt. Luke tells me they did get some good video of the fish early in the fight so hopefully we can share that soon.Other reports just starting to filter in. I’ll update as I get them in.Capt. Dean on Castille travelled from Number 7 Ribbon Reef to Number 4 without coming across another boat but they also found a big fish releasing this 900lb-er for Mark. We’re going out for a look-see today and hoping we’re not a day too late. No internet range out there though so if I get the chance I will try to get word through the comments section on the right.

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Sorry to be so slow with the update but things have been busy back here in Cairns. We’ve been watching footage (Kim’s fish) and stocking up again for another week on the water.Sunday, we fished the bank for some better weather once again – which looks to continue through the week – but not as much action on the baits. Shaka found another of the little boys who are marking the spot for the big girls to come to. It was angler David’s first marlin and John sent me another action pic (left). At Jenny, New Moon returned to the spot of their big fish the day before for another one at 600lb. KEKOA also added another one to their tally nearby.Most of the boats fishing up north have now made their way to the Bank and with the weather looking glamour for at least the next few days, a few are also venturing out wide to the Sea Mount (and out of phone range..) There was good news from Talina from fishing at Myrmidon on the weekend. They raised 6 and had bites out of 5 successfully releasing 300lb-er on 24kg standup before hooking another larger fish Saturday afternoon around the 500lb mark. Unfortunately after a 4 hour fight into darkness and being dragged out into the ocean they ended up busting him off. A great effort in a 6.4m tinnie no less!

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They are coming back. After a couple of days in town it was good to return to the Bank and actually find some fish. Capt. Jim nearly fell out of his tuna tower when a big black shape materialized behind the scaley before lunch. Unfortunately a big hit and miss was the result. But mid-afternoon we managed to catch another small one and raise another medium size. Other boats fishing the Bank reported a number of bites, Viking got another one, Mistress raised a 600 lb-er early, but pulled the hook and capitalized on a later 5pm bite when a nice black crashed the fresh scaley bait – and TowCam’s John Faulkner caught the biggest black of his life, a nice 800 lb fish, in about 10 minutes.  John tells me that he didn’t get any TowCam/Pole Cam footage because he was in the chair but I say he wasn’t trying hard enough We got some more great footage yesterday ourselves (below). Little Audrey fished wide for a 150lb blue and fished back into the bank to pull off a nice 750lb black still 50 miles to the east. Ultimate Lady fished the Ribbons – which seemed fairly quiet in both reports and releases compared to the south – for another little guy at 150lbs. At St. Crispins, Capt. Bat (Scott) had a number of bites including success on one about 750lb. And, at Jenny Louise the big news – Capt. Luke and team KEKOA pulled some more little fish going two from three while nearby Capt. Kim on New Moon scored the big girl, possibly the catch of the year, for his day trip anglers. Pulled into the boat, she went 1324lbs when weighed in port in the afternoon. Congrats on an awesome fish!

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Ultimate Lady made their way to Number 10 Ribbon Friday and found a few fish on the way.The team raised a couple of fish early in the day – 300 and 700lb – with the water a little green with a couple of patches of blue about. And later, they converted two bites – turning an ordinary day into a great day – for 120 and 900lbs.