ROUGH WEATHER FISHING

Had a great few days with Peds and Bernadette.   Although no marlin or sails we had a ball catching plenty of Spanish mackerel, a nice GT for Bernadette and usual smatterings of scaleys and mactunas.  Yesterday we did a charter with 8 personnel from the USS Blue...

4 Days Light Tackle Fishing off Cairns

Headed out today with Michael Pedder and his wife for a few days of light tackle sport fishing – hoping to find a few baby black marlin amongst the Spanish mackerel.  Winds are up today though water colour and conditions look great otherwise.

THE LIGHT TACKLE HOTS UP

After nearly two months on the hard stand the Top Shot now boasts brand new twin 500 hp Yanmar engines – ready for our best of the winter month’s light tackle action through July and August and in good time for the fast approaching marlin season.On recent...

WINTER FISHING UPDATE

The cooler weather has come early this year and I’m looking forward to a good upcoming light tackle season. The Top Shot is out of the water at the moment for an extensive engine room refit with new Yanmar engines and Twin Disc gear boxes going in.   This should...

Port Stephens Marlin Fishing – Red HOT

I flew down last weekend for the Broken Bay 50th Anniversary Game Fishing Tournament.    I fished this onboard a 45′ Rampage “Grommet” with Andrew Tonini and the boys.  On the first day we caught 2 from 3 (1 black & 1 striped), one fish behind...

Port Stephens Marlin Fishing

I’ve just returned from a couple of weeks fishing in Port Stephens with Andy O’Brien on the Warrigal and Tim Dean on the Calypso. Port Stephens once again living up to its reputation for some of the best medium tackle marlin fishing in Australia.All 3...
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