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.

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• A story from Towcam’s John Faulkner that he’d like to call–”Shut up and listen!” John took his boat Five Star out from the Gold Coast seaway with just him and a mate on board for their usual Sunday, to get some towcam vision.  John reports “Calm crisp weather, the SST charts showing good water temp at 80m we arrived to find good bait mid-water. After a quick drop and just one huge slimy, we decided to pull lures. (After listening to GCGFC guest speaker Capt. Ross McCubbin recently on striped marlin techniques.)  We scanned with the 360deg sonar for bigger schools, found a good patch of bait stacked up high in the water and marked a few large fish so we pulled up and let the lures sink and pulled them into the bait. Double hook up striped marlin!
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