On the Tag & Release side, the action was red hot at the top of the leaderboard with the top three boats all finishing with 11 marlin tagged – Bite Me (9 stripes and 2 blacks) winning on count back from Born Free (10 stripes and 1 black) and Rivenge II (10 stripes and 1 black).
By my count there were approximately 160 marlin tagged and released and 31 captured in the two days of fishing.
(Apologies for the delayed report as we’ve been out of phone/internet range – we’re set to round the Cape at about 4pm this afternoon, the most northerly tip of Australia.)