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Justin time!

 

Justin James Collum and his first couta!
Justin James Collum and his first couta!

Young Justin James Collum was super amped yesterday as he boated his first couta and biggest fish off Barra Lighthouse. He fought the fish like a Pro, never letting slack line, and when the gaff finally went in, he couldn’t believe his eyes!
Luckily we are at sea again…Justin at 8 years old is super keen and convinced Uncle Keith Cooke to go again?!?!

News Update: Well we had an amazing second day with Justin, he caught 3 yellowfin tuna – and even put one of them back! The yellowfin were wild in the afternoon, we could have loaded 30 if we stayed fishing.

 

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The Roystons

A Royston tagged black marlin!
A Royston tagged black marlin!

Brother,

Fishing continues to be exceptional and four days ago finished a 7 day charter with father & Son, Dave and Duncan Royston.
It was going to be hard to beat their trip last year when they caught 5 Marlin in 7 days including two over 850 lbs.

Anyway to cut a long story short it was EPIC to say the least
….besides all the wahoo, dorado countless yellowfin etc etc in these last 7 days we raised 20 Marlin which materialized in 15 strikes, 10 hookup’s and 7 Black Marlin releases.

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Uhhh!

On the 10th and 11th of October we did two half days with Andrew Dickens and his Dad

We light tackle game fished the first morning and did well with 21 yellow fin and wahoo. We had an amazing 5 wahoo at the same time….INSANE!!! We also pulled on a couple of Marlin in the afternoon, so the next morning the guys said theyb wanted to target Marlin exclusively…ALLELUIA it was the first day I started targeting Marlin exclusively…this is what I come here for and with a huge grin I set a beautiful spread of five Marlin lures at 6am.

We caught a couple wahoo and at 7am sharp BANG, there goes the short rigger lure and all hell breaks loose as a big Black jumps.

We hook up and Andrew takes the #50 stand up rod and begins a fight with his first ever Marlin and a good one at that.
An hour into it we get the leader and take a good look at this big chubby fish. It,s another 45 minutes until we get the leader again, place a tag and let her go!!!

She had a lot of girth on her and was easily pushing 700 pounds…the first big girl of the season….

The next day again out for a half day, this time with a couple from the UK who had never fished before. We got some nice wahoo and yellowfin early morning and at 9 I decided to swim a live bait that immediately got taxed.

I decided to put some Marlin lures out and gave the guys a whole briefing and half an hour later there goes the short corner lure and our lady angler jumps in the chair to fight her first ever fish….a Black estimated at 600 pounds!!!!

This fish gave us a show jumping all over and staying on the surface. Meanwhile our ladu angler had an adrenaline breakdown and forget all I had said which meant I could not get on top of the fish right away while it was up. The fish then sounded and our angler come to terms and did a great job putting some pressure on that fish.

Unlucky very close to the boat the hooks come off….awesome experience anyway.

We had to cut the day short when we found a local boat 11 miles out at sea who had lost their propeller….obviously we had to tow them back!!!

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Stop Duarte! Stop! This is torture!

Sean,

Brother the fishing as been absolutely insane…here´s a few reports and pics for the sardine….just been to busy to send anything fishing everyday….blownout today big SA, but out there tomorrow again!!!

After having some insane light tackle fishing over the last two weeks of September when we caught ridiculous amounts of sailfish, yellowfin, wahoo, dorado and others we finally started fishing heavy tackle for Marlin in early October and with perfect conditions the fishing as been insane!!!

First group was Craig Edwards with a few mates and they choose to also fish mostly for game fish and we caught no less than 30 game fish every day including some pretty beefy wahoo and yellowfin in the 20 to 25 kilo range.

We also caught a good number of sailfish including three in a day and to top it off a small 200 pound Black Marlin…

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