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Archive - September 2012

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Innisfail Billfish Tournament Day 2

8 years ago
by Kelly Dalling Fallon

An update from Ben Heath from the 2nd day of fishing in the Innisfail Billfish Tournament. Great weather conditions on the water again yesterday with Askari’s Capt. Corey Hard tagging 3 to take...

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Innisfail Day 1 & Heavy Tackle News

8 years ago
by Kelly Dalling Fallon

Ben Heath reports 16 tags on Day 1 at Innisfail. The leading boat on 2 tags is the Collins brothers’ Wombino from Ben’s team on Gorilla with Capt Brett Thomas and John and Brenda...

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Little Black, Big Black, Blue

8 years ago
by Kelly Dalling Fallon

The Innisfail Billfish Tournament kicks off today with the largest number of participants since 1989!  Tournament Director Ben Heath tells me that they have 34 boats and 140 anglers registered...

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Smashing weather and sailfish at Whitsundays

8 years ago
by Kelly Dalling Fallon

The Ballintine’s have spent some time out at the oval/little oval aboard Afishionado enjoying the unbelievable weather over the past week.  They went 3-2-2 over a couple of days fishing with...

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Starting Heavy Tackle Fishing

8 years ago
by Kelly Dalling Fallon

While most are yet to switch over to heavy tackle fishing (more of the fleet will begin fishing for the bigger blacks over the next couple of weeks), there are a few out on the Ribbon Reefs and...

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Monday’s Billfish Bits & Peices

8 years ago
by Kelly Dalling Fallon

I’m on the run this morning so quick updates from the north with pics: Bradley Eade (with Capt. Rob Bonser) and his first marlin on Pirate yesterday. This weekend’s Weipa Billfish...

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