What a week this was, just finshed 6 days on the Bali-Hai, a beautiful 40 year old classic mothership. THe fishing has been incredible this week, with at least 10 fish right around the mark let go, and at least 2 over 1100 tagged as well. We had a mixed bag, jumping off 2 fish […]

Been a bit busy to report as I should have, so here it is tonight as the boys are cooking dinner. Fished out of Cairns on the weekend of October 1 and 2, fishing was slow, but did stack up on big baits and caught some nice coral trout for dinner. October 3-7 I fished […]

Another great week of fishing on TRADITION, with 9 fish in 7 days, including another 950 lb fish for Matthew, his first big fish. Fished No:10 Ribbon Reef for most of the week, seeing 3-6 fish per day, and having a shot at one over 600 nearly every day. We had a couple of big […]

WOW, what a week of fishing TRADITION has had the last 4 days. Pretty much the best fishing of my life driving a boat. First day on Linden Bank, I raised 8 fish, had 5 bites and jumped off a 400 lb fish, and tagged a 550, 900 and finished the day with one I […]

After a slow week us for the 40th, we jumped off 4 fish and saw quite a few more. Our anglers from the NT were blown away, and are coming back next year, a little later in the season when the weather will hopefully be a bit better. Top boat had 9, 8 and 6 […]

Ran back from Lizard Island today, wind is finally starting to lay down a little bit. Spent the last 2 days fishing up on No:10 Ribbon Reef where the bite had been a little slower than to the south. We started out with a nice little fish for our angler Amy on her 21st birthday […]

Just finished our first 5 days heavy tackle for 2006: Fished Anthony and the biys from Sydney for 4 days. Tagged 2 fish in 4 days , of course the ones we tagged were 250 and 450lbs, whilst we jumped off a couple around 500lbs. And broke wire on a tailwraped fish after Anthony did […]

Here is a short wrap up of our first month on the road for the 2005 Cairns/Lizard Island black marlin season. Tradition left the Gold Coast and ran up to Double Island Point the first day and then up the inside of Fraser Island and anchored at Rooney Point. While anchored in about 15 foot […]

Well its been a big month, finished my MED 2 ticket in Cairns (Marine Engine Driver grade 2) which now means that I can legally do exactly the same things on my boat I have been doing forever!!! But did learn a lot about things that I have not had much exposure too. Learned how […]

Leaving the Gold Coast on the 25th of May 2006 we headed up to the Brisbane port of Manly to clear Customs and Immigration for the trip to Fiji. Aboard hull no: 9, the 44′ Assegai “Megumi” belonging to Garth and Maggie from Fiji. Captained by Greg Edwards, who built and ran the first Assegai […]