The fishing continues off Cairns and while not red hot, big fish making their appearance for the happy crews. Yesterday Capt. Tim Dean’s Calypso were the big fish grinners with a fish that Tim put at 950lbs for Tim from Oregon after a 1 hour+ fight!

Meanwhile Capt. Casey Dent’s Zulu went 3-2-2 acrobatic marlin! (photo top).

Rod Hawkin’s C’mon Aussie is departing Cairns having enjoyed another season privateering on the reef. Rod put together some stats from his trip which are: 34 days for 29 marlin (28 blacks and 1 blue) including 3 over 800lbs.  Anglers friends and family including Corey Hawkins accounted for 2 blacks, 1 blue; Fabian Wormsley, 3 blacks including a first marlin for him, first marlin for Wombat Klepzig and Pyke-Nott family and that leaves about 21 for Rod!

Mooloolaba Billfish Bash

Congrats to all the teams competing on what sounds like another fun weekend on the water!  Thank you to Jamie for the results!

Day 1 – 53 strikes, 41 hookups, 21 tagged/ captured
Weather- Winds variable up to 15 knots, seas to a meter. Rain in patches. Sloppy conditions

Day 2 – 36 strikes, 26 hookups, 11 tagged/ captured
Weather- Winds variable to 10 knots, seas to a meter. Overcast early but cleared to a fine day.

Tournament total – 89 strikes, 67 hookups, 32 tagged/ captured
Fish total- 8 blue marlin, 2 black marlin, 1 stripe marlin, 3 yellow fin tuna, 4 cobia, 7 mahi mahi, 3 wahoo and 3 yellowtail kingfish.

31 boats – 107 Angler’s comprising of 78 senior males, 12 senior females and 17 juniors.