On their first day heavy tackle fishing for 2012, and after a late morning start out of Cairns, Bob Hill’s Maitai started their season off with a bang catching a big black marlin just shy of 900lbs for Bob’s wife Cherekee. Cherekee says they caught the fish at Linden bank yesterday afternoon and it took [...]
How’s this for a way to start your Cairns marlin fishing season? Capt. Corey Hard’s team on Askari have just wound up their first heavy tackle trip of 2012 with 10 marlin in 4 days fishing. On day 1, his anglers were treated to the worst of the recent blow straight up that left them [...]
Yesterday continued a pretty good run on the reef that started on Friday with most boats fishing the southern end seeing several fish. Capt. Darren “Biggles” Haydon and team on Calypso wound up their five day trip with three more in the 250 to 300lb range on the final day to finish up with 10 [...]
As predicted, the fishing just turned it up a notch with Friday on the reef, being an all over better day. And a top notch day for some as well! Capt. Ian “Wobbles” Ford on Hot Shot reported the first big fish of the season, a 900lb-er released at Number 5 Ribbon Reef. That’s what [...]
The Black Marlin Fishing Blog began in 2005 and is the brainchild of Kelly Dalling, daughter of well-known Australian skipper Jim Dalling.
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