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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 [...]

Well while the tournament has been the focus of the last week on my radar, there has been much going on outside the tournament as well. Many of the southern based professional marlin fleet are already making their way north for the Cairns marlin fishing season.  After stopping over in Townsville for the competition, Gorilla [...]

Thomas, very happy with his first (and second) black marlin on Sunday on Midnight – well done Thomas! Read the previous report for more from Midnight’s 10-7-4 day on Sunday. Meanwhile on board Zuri, Jack Nicolosi reports: We punched out to the grounds on Saturday with the conditions being ordinary but with high expectations from [...]


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