Today is the last day of the Lizard Island comp, and yesterday we got off to a good start with Brandon catching one early to put us into 2nd ahead of Calypso and Maritimo, but even with Kanahoee. Then we only saw one more fish all day!!! Kanahoee caught 2 more for 9 total, and […]

Well we won the daily yesterday with 2 fish on time, and were equal 4th with a few other boats overall. BIG NEWS -the weather forecast was right!!! Which is a big bummer as it is now 25-30 knots and bit choppy. Bait fished most of the morning for a total of none!! Which was […]

Number 3 Ribbon Reef. Yesterdays totals for the tournament was 20 fish tagged, from about 63 bites. Today we bait fished south and put the baits in at the bottom of Lena Reef , and again tagged the first fish of the day, a feisty one on the scad for Brandon about 100 lbs, and […]

Day 3 of the Lizard Island Tournament and the fishing has picked up to match the weather!! Good wind yesterday and today, 20+ knots from the SE have the fish up and tailing downsea into the edge. Yesterday Brandon got his first GBR black, a nice feisty one about 250 lbs, and missed another one […]

Night before last was the briefing for the 21st Lizard Island Tournament, and we arrived after running and fishing our way from Cooktown after resupplying and picking up RJ, John and Brandon, all good friends of ours from Florida. The tournament briefing was a debacle as usual, with our anglers ordering and paying for 6 […]

With the most part of the fleet into Cooktown last night, about 20 boats are waiting to head up to Lizard Island for the start of the tournament tonight with the briefing. Yesterday was our last day with Peter and Lydie, and the day started about 8 am with a nice long breakfast followed by […]

9 pm No 5 Ribbon Reef Well after what can only be called a very disappointing start to the season, we finished 4 days with Jamie and the boys from Sydney with not even a fish seen!!! We had a blast swimming, jigging and catching lots of scaleys and bait. On Sunday Peter and Lydie […]

We have just finished 6 days with John, Benny, Jimmy and Bruno from the US. Whilst catching was slow for the whole fleet, we managed to see 6 fish, but only 2 lazy bites. But if you are not catching fish it is great to be calm!!! First day was normal 20 knots, then we […]

Arrived into Cairns last night after an eventful day on the high seas. Our Good friend Chris “Sharky” Miles and crew were bringing the new 55 Maritimo up from fishing the Hinchinbrook Tournament when she caught fire and burned to the water line and then sank near Beaver Cay, about 20nm offshore. All 5 people […]

Well we have had a couple of great days scad fishing, with over 200 in the freezer we are full to the brim!!!! With wonderful weather we are heading out to the Cairns seamount, then Flora and Holmes Reefs for a few days. Some reports from up on No: 10 have a couple of fish […]