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Tracking back down the inside of the reef on our return to Cairns yesterday we came across the big blue boat, Ultimate Lady once again heading over the horizon and into Cairns having just done some bait fishing out wide, the team are ready to go black marlin fishing!Also back on the reef at the wheel of New Moon, Capt. Kim Andersen headed to Linden Bank yesterday going two from three in the 200-300lb range. Tradition reports seeing two and also releasing a smaller fish and watching Capt. Darren Haydon on Allure get a monster. That tops off a great couple of days for the team on Allure as Capt. Tom reported they also released four the day before.Up the top, Capt. Dean Beech on Castille III left the lodge at 11am to do some spearing then headed out to Jewell Reef at 2pm going 3 from 7, back anchored in the bay by 6pm. Not a bad day by anyone’s standards!Some more footage to share:Bill Borken’s grander on board Kanahoee on the final day of the competition. Parke Berolzheimer’s grander on board Castille on Day 1 of the competition. (Originally called 950lb, photo and video have been provided to the committee with an application to join the Lizard Island 1000lb club.)Jason Hassett’s grander on board KEKOA. The boys didn’t get a tag in the fish and so it didn’t count for the comp as Capt. Luke made the call to crack it off so the fish would get to swim another day. Good footage, of course the boys topped it a day later with the 1200lb-er.Hiroshi Ogawa’s 900lb-er on Reel Ripe. The week before the tournament at Number 2 Ribbon.You can see some of the other clips I’ve uploaded from season 2009 on YouTube (Keruko Channel). I’ve got some more to edit and upload hopefully today!Picture of 1100lb dedication from the team on Joe Joe who release two of this size during the comp. Hopefully footage and photos coming soon!

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Photo of the team on Castille III who may have taken out Champion Fancy Dress, just pipping the team on Spartacus. Or perhaps the other way around! Congratulations to the team on board Mauna Kea who took out Champion Boat with 11 tags from Spartacus on 9 tags and Joe Joe on 8. There were 10 ‘granders’ successfully tagged and released and quite a number of big battles. Kanahoee released the final grander of the tournament at 30 minutes to cease fishing on Day 7. Joe Joe released two at 1100lb and KEKOA released the largest at 1200lb (below). In total, 125 black marlin were released. Daily winners:Day 1 – Three tags, CastilleDay 2 – Three tags, SpartacusDay 3 – Three tags, Mauna KeaDay 4 – Three tags, Hart ThrobDay 5 – Three tags, KaizenDay 6 – Four tags, Mauna KeaDay 7 – One tag, WatchdogChampion Male Angler was Daryl Mosley on board Mauna Kea with 11 tags with Mike Dobbins on Hattitude runner up with 7 tags. The Champion Female Angler Karen Weaver on Maitai with 2 tags. Stills from the video of KEKOA’s big fish on Day 6. The video in full of the 1200lb-er is online now here . Outside the tournament, there are also still being big fish being caught. On the other end of the reef at Linden Bank on Saturday, Cool Runnings released an estimated 1100lb-er as well!—And on the Gold Coast, TowCam’s John Faulkner released a 400lb blue marlin on his boat Five Star yesterday for Bruce Keown – and go vision of both the switch and strike on both towcams. Another balmy day out wide down there while we are rocking and rolling up here.

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Captain Chris “Sharky” Miles staged another come from behind burst on Day 6 to jump to the lead. He added four tags on Day 6 (100, 400, 600, 850) to bring Mauna Kea’s total to 10 with one day to go also rocketing his angler, Daryl Mosley to the front in the Champion Male Angler category as well. Spartacus added another big fish (850lb) to bring their total to 9 and in clear second place. Behind them on 8 are Joe Joe, Viking and Hart Throb on countback in that order. But the story of the day belonged to KEKOA who not only called in the first fish of the day, but called it big. Capt. Luke calling it a massive 1200lbs for angler John Wildberger. The boys on KEKOA are enjoying some big fish action this week with four fish over 800lb in the last four days.Click on the picture on the left to go to the YouTube video of the fish. (Edit – this is the actual footage. It has now replaced the original iPhone video copy.) Awesome stuff!Some more notable fish on Day 6 included this one (below right 850lbs) for Jeff Murphy on Reel Chase which was one of a group of fish tailing downsea in the notably rougher swells. All three boats in the area hooked up within minutes of each other, us, Calypso and Mauna Kea. Calypso released one yesterday (500lbs) and are still in the running with 6 tags for the tournament thus far. On Reel Chase; Alan’s fish charges toward the boat (500lb) and Jeff’s on the leader (850lb) Tough luck to the boys on Iona who were 2 from 4 and congratulations to the team on Dealne who got on the scoreboard yesterday with two fish at 300 and 350lbs.The rough weather has brought the tailing fish in once again. It will be interesting to see what today brings – the final day of the 2009 Shell Cove Lizard Island Black Marlin classic (Halloween themed fancy dress at the presentation tonight, I’ll try and get photos of that too).And lastly, Capt. Ashley Wallis on Kalira sent me these video stills from their giant black marlin on Day 5 – 1050lbs. I’ll have to check with Ashley but I think this may be the first grander for the new boat. Congratulations guys awesome fish! Kalira’s 1050lb black marlin from Day 5, Thursday on the leader.

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Well its all happening at the top of the leaderboard, and mostly all happening at the top of the reef as well with over half the day’s fish were released on the top end.Spartacus and Joe Joe continued their tussell adding another fish a peice on Day 5. This time Spartacus got in first, tagging and releasing an 800lb-er for Ralph Czabayski and have taken the lead with 8 tags overall. Joe Joe followed soon after with a smaller fish also bringing them to 8. Viking also added another fish to their tally on Day 5, and with their fish tagged after cease fishing on Day 4 also now counted, they are in third place with 7 tags from Castille III. On six tags on countback Hattitude is ahead of Hart Throb, Mauna Kea and Top Shot.Notably, the sunshine coast team on board Kaizen took out Day 5 honours with three fish including a 550lb-er for David Trask. Kanahoee also released 3 fish on Day 5 in the 150-200lb range. Both Kaizen and Kanahoee are in contention on 5 tags on countback behind Calypso .Notable fish on Day 5 include a whopping 1050lb-er for Kalira for Geoff Lindrea, a 900lb-er for Mauna Kea and a 700lb-er for Think Big to put them on the scoreboard for the first time. 25 of 27 boats are now on the scoreboard. Outside the tournament: Not great photo quality but you get the idea, some shots from Adam on Iona 2 who has just wrapped up three days fishing on Linden Bank with three more on Wednesday at 1200(!), 300 and 150lbs and broke the double on another estimated at 400lbs. No need to ask where Adam was fishing – the Bus Stop of course.