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I spoke with Griffo this morning who’s been taking advantage of some better fishing at Port this week on board his new 40foot White Cap Magic with 15 from the three days fishing thus far (including a PB for Mario on the rod with 5 in one day). And back out for more action today. Griffo says the bait has been back in plague proportions at the carpark Monday/Tuesday although as the only boat fishing out there yesterday he had a bit more trouble finding it. Of the 15 fish 5 were black marlin and the rest stripes – this is more like the ratios and captures that we’ve come to expect from Port. On Iona II, Capt. Trent fished Tuesday for 4 from 7. I hear more boats are heading out today so hopefully they’ll be getting in amongst them again.27 March Update: Griffo and team Magic added another six yesterday (and saw a heap more) bringing their tally to 21 from the four days fishing and I had a quick chat to Capt. Tim on Calypso yesterday who’s also been getting amongst them with 20 fish for their last six days fishing.

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Well once again it seems that Port has awaited the departure of most of the boats before turning on some decent fishing. Although its not anything like the 8 stripe-a-day days that we have come to look forward to, it is noticeably better than it has been. Capt. Laurie Wright travelled to Port to fish with Capt. Tim Dean on board Calypso with Laurie’s Texan guests. During their five days fishing they released 7 stripes and saving the best for last, two black marlin in the 200 and 300lb range for anglers Dan and Will. A total of 9 marlin in 5 days (photo on the wrap on Calypso on left). Laurie has now headed down to Bermagui to spend some time with Dave Cassar on his newly christened Slammer (formerly Bill Dunkley’s Bill Collector). Iona also took advantage of the good weather and better fishing to slip out on Friday for one from 3 and sent me another great photo from Rhino on the deck (right).With the weather on the Gold Coast not fantastic, blue marlin reports are scarce for up this way. But at Port, good sized blues are still about for those fishing for them. More tales from last weekends’ tournament have emerged. David fishing on Time to Tango tells me they had more than their fair share of drama while fighting and eventually losing a fish they put in the 8-900lb range. And Pacimo, traveling down from Port for the tournament fought a similar size fish for over three hours on stand-up – which became sit-down as the angler, so tired, ended up fighting the fish from the cockpit floor.

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Full results of the weekend’s Broken Bay Invitational Tournament are now in with a big thank you to Broken Bay GFC President Reub Hayes for all the details and pictures.As I mentioned previously, congratulations to Capt. Hoggy and Reub and the team on board his boat In a Meeting who took out the Champion Boat Tag & Release, storming into contention with their first fish with two hours to go, and adding another two (a total of two blues in the 500 and 350lb range and striped marlin) before cease fishing for the win. Pipi Paton on Bravo captured this pending Australian record blue marlin at 202kg on 15kg – big congratulations to Pipi on this fantastic effort! Bravo took out Champion Boat Capture with two blue marlin, both on 15kg with Rampage runner up with a blue and a stripe. Another notable capture was for LMGFC boat Kranky with a 103kg black marlin on 10kg – a 10 to 1 capture.A nice run of blue marlin since the Interclub has seen good numbers of big fish being caught and indeed some more nice blues were fought, with one boat fighing a nice fish for 5 and a half hours on 37kg before busting it off.Over 300 anglers on 86 boats competed.

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With our last day at Port cancelled, we took advantage of the weather to make a speedy u-turn and return to the Gold Coast – Reel Chase will be arriving back at Marina Mirage today. Just in time for the blue marlin season to kick off in ernest. I’d last heard blue marlin reports from Caboom the weekend of the 7th of March with Graham and team releasing one for each day in the 200kg range. And another report from yesterday (Sunday) with local boat Barco raising 9 out wide for 7 shots and 4 hookups, successfully tagging all four and narrowly missing hooking up on the double clearing the lures from the water. There were also two more at Pt. Lookout and with the weather good all week, we’ll be expecting more reports to trickle in.

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