Sunshine Coast: Another good day on the water.  Ymer released 2 blacks, 2 sails and landed a 23kg mahi mahi which is a pending new 8kg Australian record.  While Spot On went 1 from 3 on black marlin.  David also sent me this link to his footage from Tuesday.  Great stuff!

Ribbons, Cairns – Capt. Adam continues to get the jump on most of the fleet who are just now turning their attention to the impending start of the heavy tackle season as Iona 2 released another two smaller fish yesterday at 80 and 100lb.  He saw five for the day including a monster at Number 10 Ribbon.

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Mooloolaba: The ‘model up’ black marlin have already shown up on the Sunshine Coast.  On Monday, Outside Edge released three black marlin between 70 and 120kg. On Tuesday, Reel Capture release two blacks at 90 and 120kg both on 8kg and also jumped off 100kg stripe and saw a free jumping sail.

And Heath Irvine on Tanjian solo released an 80kg black.  Shaping up very nicely for the tournament at the end of the month.

David Granville took this great shot of one of Reel Captures‘ fish.

Townsville Tournament: Congratulations to the teams on board Sea Baby IV (over 8m) with 4 tags and Elektrakushen (under 8m) with 2 tags for their wins in the Townsville Mike Carney Toyota Billfish Challenge.  The presentation is tonight and so full results up tomorrow.
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• A report from Caz Martin and the recent Cairns Bluewater Billfish Touranament on 18-22 August. Hosted at the fabulous Fitzroy Island in 2010, 19 boats and 61 anglers boats anchored/rafted up and partied the nights away after cease fishing.  For the tournament, 12 billfish were tagged (10 sailfish, 1 black marlin, 1 striped marlin). Seems like last year, the juvenile black marlin have been scarce, while the big black marlin have already arrived!
• Also fishing his way up from the Gold Coast to Cairns for the start of the season, Capt. Tim Richardson on Tradition went two from three sails fishing from Nara to Stanley Reef on Sunday.  That’s it for light tackle for Tradition now who will switch to heavy tackle for the rest of the trip up.

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Still slowly adding numbers to the tournament tally.

In trademark Capt. Chris “Sharky” Miles fashion, Sea Baby IV swooped in to take the lead with a total of three fish tagged, adding two on day 3, a double header of sails.  The first fish of the day (sailfish) went to Princess C who picked right up from where they left at cease fishing yesterday.  Kanahoee made it onto the scoreboard with a sailfish at lunch and the Phantom were hooked up at cease fishing.

Castille III on anchor at Cape Bowling Green.

Day 2 results
More fish today though still quiet by Townsville’s usual standards. And, apart from a lone marlin today (first marlin of the tournament tagged by Sea Baby IV), it has been all sails.  Sparticus put the first points of the day on the board at a relatively early 9am with a sailfish.
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