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Archive: April 2011

Ben shared a quick underwater segment of the small black marlin that was hanging around his boat while they fought a sailfish in the Gulf last week. This little fella is surely more familiar with the waters on Eastern side of Cape York? Also, Craig gave me a bit more of an update on the [...]

Although the forecast for wind, rain and rough conditions did not put a dampener on Mooloolaba GFC’s 20th Anniversary Billfish Bonanza on the weekend, the fish were for the most part MIA with only two billfish tagged over the two days fishing.   The local bite has been pretty good with both black marlin and [...]

Some cool footage I came across of a marlin eating/chasing a dolphin fish off Japan. – There have been reports of a few blues being caught off Sydney and Jervis Bay and a few stripies back at the Car Park off Port Stephens. And, there was a 269kg blue weighed at Eden yesterday as well. [...]

Just a quick sked today because reports are few and far between over a bad weather weekend – plus I’m heading out fishing. More fun and games with the black marlin in the Gulf this week.  Where a couple of weeks ago there were sails, this week they were almost exclusively black marlin in the [...]


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