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Final day of our Port Stephens season started with catching bait at Little Island giving us a chance to bid final greetings to the rest of the regular fleet and fellow bait-fishers including the boys on board Freedom, Billfisher, Broadbill and Calypso. After bringing a nice haul of slimeys on board we set out for the grounds..a whopping 200 metres away!! Unfortunately the promise of the preceeding few days did not eventuate and by late morning we had set off to wander in the direction of Broughton Island where the teaser once again caught the attention of a beautiful fully lit-up Striped Marlin. The standard deployment of a live bait assured Angler Russell of an instant hookup. After a lengthy fight (and even calling in back up angling reinforcements) the fish was tagged. Unfortunately that was it for our final day. Back home on the Gold Coast we are gearing up for some Blue Marlin action after a busy weekend by all reports out wide. Fishing inshore for little Blacks on Kekoa on Saturday, Capt. Luke was listening to radio reports of an array of hook-ups and tags, wishing he was there. This weekend he will be as Kekoa joins the fleet off Cape Moreton. Stay tuned!!
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While the action in the car park has definitely slowed, it appears its beginning to hot up inshore with the little Blacks and offshore with the big Blues. On Wednesday we travelled from Broughton Island to Seal Rocks in close and then turned out wide for no Marlin but a school of Dolphin Fish on the fish traps kept our anglers Neil and Brendan busy. However as we ran in, we marked a few Marlin on bait schools closed to Little Island that looked promising.So on Thursday we started fishing 200 metres east of Little Island and caught our first Black Marlin for Angler Rick while still setting the baits. The second one soon followed for Angler Mark and that was our day. Great reports from Grant on board Kiaua tagging 4 from 6 in the area between Little Island and Broughton Island and Johnny Denver on the Freedom tagging three north of Broughton Island including one of 100kgs on 15. Rick’s Black jumps away from the boat while Mark’s tries to join us on board. Reports from Bob Jones on Fascination fishing wide at Almark Mt. in 500 fathoms plus recorded a large number of Blues and Spearfish tagging one of each on Wednesday and getting another four bites from Blues on Thursday with a couple of fish in excess of 500lb with a couple lost due to light tackle limitations. One of the Dolphin Fish and Neil’s on fire.
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We made it out in the weather – even so, we did indulge in a 3 hour lunch break!Persistance in the afternoon with team B paid off with a missed bite from a Striped Marlin and then tagging a small Black Marlin for Greg which again gave us an aerial display at the back of the boat. All the action happened within 500 metres of Little Island, right in front of Port Stephens Heads.Captain Jim thinks that with the large amount of bait in front of the Heads and North of Broughton Island and the beautiful blue 24 degree water, the fishing should finally break loose in this area over the next couple of weeks.
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Now that everyones gone home after the tournaments we’re catching fish again although the weather is still not on our side. We managed to catch a foul hooked Striped Marlin on 30lb spinning rod thanks to the efforts of a great angler in Paul!
As usual, Monday’s weather conditions went down the gurgler and we finished the day shortly after lunch. Our fish was caught north of Broughton Island. To the south off Fingal Light, Broadbill caught two Black Marlin and Calypso a Black and Striped Marlin.
Today’s going to be a tough one. It has dawned grey, drisly and 25knots. Pity they don’t catch Marlin inside the harbour!
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On her first day marlin fishing with Capt. Jim a few years ago, she caught a sailfish. Since then she’s caught a number of Striped and Black Marlin. Yesterday she completed the Grand Slam by releasing an estimated 250lb Blue Marlin.Joining us out on the shelf and beyond were some of the 40 odd boats competing in the Riviera Billfish Shootout held over the weekend. Tycon took out the Champion Boat ‘Capture’ after weighing a 521kg Tiger Shark at 3am Sunday morning – the fight went on into the early after a 10am hookup and team were assisted by Gunrunner who took them some more Petrol to get them home after the fish took them in excess of 40 mile from Gamefish Base. Attempts to get the boxhead into the boat resulted in near swamping and so it was towed in.Champion Boat ‘Tag and Release’ was Blood, Sweat and Tears who won from our friends Griffo and team on Magic with 23 Yellow Fin tuna tagged. Magic following up with a Blue Marlin, 4 tuna and a dolphin fish tagged.
