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Archive: 2012

Its raining here on the GBR this morning and playing havoc with my internet connection so I’ll keep this one short. Cairns Once upon a time, several boats went marlin fishing, and, while many had bites, and some of us even jumped a fish or two off, no marlin releases were reported. Although Capt. Bobby [...]

Capt. Kim Anderson ended his 2012 season on a high yesterday with a fish that he put up there on the mark.  Kim, who has been at the helm of Reel Shock again for the past 6 days says that it was one of a triple header and they’re happy to have caught the big [...]

The tuna spread further to the north yesterday with the main congregation harder to find, but there were still marlin bites amongst them. Capt. Daniel Carlson on Little Audrey fished his final day of the Cairns season, finishing up with two fish at 250 and 350lbs. They started the journey to Airlie Beach last night [...]

Another BIG day off the Great Barrier Reef with several big black marlin recorded amongst the fleet still fishing. On KEKOA with Capt. Luke Fallon, we wrapped up our 5 day trip with Team Pelagic USA with 4 from 5 including two quality fish at 900 and 700lbs.  The big fish (above) gave Mike a [...]


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