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Archive - April 2017

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SHIMANO Port Hacking 100 Tournament 2017 Wrap Up

6 years ago
by Kelly Dalling Fallon

The SHIMANO Port Hacking 100 Tournament was run over the weekend of April 22nd and 23rd out of the RMYC Port Hacking. This years tournament saw 74 vessels and over 320 anglers coming together to...

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Weekend Coffs Coast

6 years ago
by Kelly Dalling Fallon

Rick O’Ferrall report the most sublime 4 days of weather on the Coffs Coast and the best Easter weather he’s ever seen on the NSW north coast for a decade. The water was perfect, but...

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Big Sydney blue & Gold Coast swords

6 years ago
by Kelly Dalling Fallon

If you were on the social media channels on the weekend you would have seen the top pic above of the big blue lost on board Hayden Fretten’s The Outlaw on Saturday during the 2017 Port Hacking...

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2017 MGFC Billfish Bonanza

6 years ago
by Kelly Dalling Fallon

11 boats entered with the first day of fishing cancelled due to weather. Day 2 the weather improved slightly but it was sloppy conditions, with the occasional rain squall, that greeted competitors...

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Hot Easter Fishing P2 – Bermi

6 years ago
by Kelly Dalling Fallon

While the fishing was pretty hot all along the coast, it was hard to ignore the big numbers coming in from Bermi once again – the hot spot of 2017 without a doubt. Head Hunter Charters’...

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Hot Easter Fishing!

6 years ago
by Kelly Dalling Fallon

Fresh off reports that Exmouth’s Eddy Lawler / Peak Sport Fishing had yet another hot day on the water Easter Sunday with a 13-9-5 black marlin, the challenge was on to see if East Coast crews...

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The Black Marlin Blog is your one-stop home to fishing reports and information about marlin fishing in Australia. The site encompasses more than 15 years of fishing reports from the Cairns giant black marlin season in the north all the way across to blue marlin in Exmouth, WA. The site also includes information about chartering a boat and destination guides with specific focus on marlin fishing in Australia.

The site is written by Kelly Dalling Fallon who started BMB during her first Cairns giant black marlin season in 2005 and is now a veteran of 16 black marlin seasons.

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