Year: 2009

Nov 30 2009

By Shakeel Ahmad / November 30, 2009 / Comments Off on Nov 30 2009

It is hot in Cairns!!! We are back in town for a few days, after fishing Greg for the last 10 days. I headed out to the middle Ribbons where there were some good numbers of bites, but the conversion rate was a bit average!!! Fish grabbing the bait again and dropping it right away […]

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Nov 28 2008

By Shakeel Ahmad / November 28, 2009 / Comments Off on Nov 28 2008

Spent the last week put at the seamount area with the longliners. The fishing was some of the most fun we have had all year. Jigging yellowfin tuna and bigeye tuna from under whalesharks and under the boat at night, and a nice 350 lb blue for Joe, followed up by this real nice one […]

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Nov 18 2009

By Shakeel Ahmad / November 18, 2009 / Comments Off on Nov 18 2009

Cooktown The last day with the boys from Moscow was spent fishing No:3 Ribbon and again we got the bites, jumping off a 600 and tagging a fun one about 250lbs. John and Doc from Florida, joined us for 5 days, and were met with just crap weather for November, it blew 20+ everyday, and […]

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Nov 15 2008

By Shakeel Ahmad / November 15, 2009 / Comments Off on Nov 15 2008

We have just finished a wonderful 6 days with first timers to the Reef, Steve and Jo from Western Australia. The fishing on the marlin front has been slow, but we have had a couple of good days, the first one being Wednesday where we saw 4 fish on the camera, including one about 500 […]

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Nov 3 2008

By Shakeel Ahmad / November 9, 2009 / Comments Off on Nov 3 2008

We have just finshed a wonderful 7 days with Rich and Kelly, with the father daughter team having the whole GBR experience. Mornings spent diving and spearing, bait fishing, a couple of great scuba dives at Opal Reef and some good fishing days thrown in as well. Kelly caught a fish for her birthday, and […]

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Nov 9 2009

By Shakeel Ahmad / November 9, 2009 / Comments Off on Nov 9 2009

After relocating to Port Douglas we fished Scott, Mark and Jamie from Melbourne for 3 days at Linden Bank off Cairns. We saw a bunch of fish, and managed to tag 3 fish, one for each of the boys and a big one at 900 lbs for Scott, his lifelong dream fish!!! The fish put […]

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Oct 29 2009 Jewell Reef

By Shakeel Ahmad / October 29, 2009 / Comments Off on Oct 29 2009 Jewell Reef

Wow, what a difference a few days and some wind can make!!! The day of the last report, yeah I have been slack, was an awesome day on the Reef, we started our first of 3 days with Jason from the US, and while the wind was up to 25 knots, the fish were here […]

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Oct 22 2009

By Shakeel Ahmad / October 22, 2009 / Comments Off on Oct 22 2009

The run of incredible weather is about to end, and although it has been nice, it might make the fish want to eat properly and not just stuff around with the baits. The fishing for us has been really consistant, with 2-4 fish seen a day, whilst our catching has not been as good. Meanwhile […]

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Oct 13 2009

By Shakeel Ahmad / October 13, 2009 / Comments Off on Oct 13 2009

Nice conditions has been the rule rather than the exception this season so far!!! The last few days has seen 20 knots of SE trade wind and the rest of the time has been 10 to 15 knots, a huge difference form the last couple of years. The good news is that the BIG fish […]

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Thursday Oct 9 2008

By Shakeel Ahmad / October 9, 2009 / Comments Off on Thursday Oct 9 2008

The fishing has been improving each day with 11 and 13 tags for the last 2 days. We did not see one yesterday, but had a great swim and spear at No:1 Ribbon yesterday morning and the girls had a great time. Brian Felton is leading the comp with 5 fish, mostly fishing up the […]

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