Firstly, i must thank Peter Hargreaves, tourney director of Couran Cove again this year. This guy works trielessly, along with rest of committee, Mike Clare,his son Peter, Peter Pakula, Matt Gross, Brett Clarke,John Norling and Mark Ward to drive this thing and help make it one of the most fun and friendliest tourneys around. We […]

Been a busy few months, getting some things taken care of on the boat, fishing a few days when the weather has allowed and lots of traveling. Got out a few days in early February, and managed to tag a few black marlin up to 100lbs on 20lb line, lots of fun!!. Mid Feb saw […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Now anchored at Nara Inlet in the Whitsundays, spent 5 days in the Swains Reef system, mostly trolling for pelagics, and a bit of spearing for coral trout for dinner. Had great weather with ligth winds and flat seas for the past week, and did raise one tiny little black marlin but he disappeared before […]

Leaving the Gold Coast today headed for the top of Fraser Isalnd , then up the outside of the Swains Reef complex to see if there are any nice blues hiding up there, then over to Townsville for the light tackle black marlin and sailfish until Sept 8, still a few days open end of […]