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Yesterday Capt Adam took 6 American clients out from Newcastle and fished his regular haunt (the Newcastle Bus Stop we’re calling it) and it paid off well! What a cracker of day we raised 11 and caught 9. 7 striped marlin, 1 nice blue marlin and a black marlin. All three billfish species in the one day, a Grand Slam, the first one for the Port Stephens/Newcastle Season. Well done Capt AJ.
We will be out again on Tuesday so hopefully it will still be firing.
Unfortunately we weren’t successful in taking out the capture division of the Gold Lure Tournament in Port MacQuarie. We were placed 4th.
Carnage won the capture division with 2 marlin weighed, 1 blue marlin and a striped marlin. Followed by Fitzy on Wave Rider.
Renegade took out the tag & release division.
We had heaps of fun during the tournament raising 13 blues, we only managed to hook 5 and caught the one blue at 138kg on 30lb tackle. We had a nice striped marlin on 20lb but unfortunately broke the line during the fight. On the last day of the tournament we had a blue marlin on estimated at 150kg on 20lb but we couldn’t set the hook.
Rhino in transit with the Iona II from Port MacQuarie to Newcastle pulled out the big guns, the 130lb outfits and hooked 2 from 3 blue marlin proving that when the line class is increased you have a lot more opportunities to set the hooks.
17 marlin raised in 5 days it proves the Iona II is the fish raising machine!
We are out tomorrow with friends and business acquaintances Noel Dowd from Newcastle and Al Wright from the Gold Coast.
Should be a cracker of a trip, stay tuned.
After a lay day on Monday, and ladies day on Tuesday and a lay day yesterday we are now into day 3 of the Golden Lure. We are currently sitting in 3rd place for the capture division and Rhino our deckhand extrordinaire is coming 3rd also in the champion angler division with his 138kg blue marlin. (pic below)
Leading boat in the Capture division is Carnage from Broken Bay followed by Wave Rider from Lake Macquarie then us also fishing for Lake Macquarie.
Leading the tag & release division is Renegadefrom Pt Macquarie, followed by Bear from Ocean Grove Victoria and then Blackfin from Coffs Harbour.
All up after day 2 of fishing there has been 11 blue marlin weighed, 3 striped marlin and 1 black marlin.
Tag & release there has been 9 blue marlin tagged and 15 striped marlin tagged.
Last day of fishing tomorrow.
Rhino's 138kg Blue Marlin
Day 2 of the Golden Lure Tournament & we’re on the board! Fishing capture on board Iona II legend deckhand Rhino has pulled in an estimated 140kg blue marlin on 30lb after a lengthy fight. Adam lost a nice striped marlin on 30lb & we’ve raised another 5! We’re in 2nd place in the capture division let’s see what the afternoon bite brings. Bring it on Trento!
Capt Trent & the Iona II team headed out wide yesterday for day 1. We pulled the hook on a blue marlin and lost a dolphin fish bugger!!!
Results from day 1 need to be confirmed but reports are 2 tagged marlin leading the tag & release & 3 boats on 1 tag.
In the capture division Johnny Fitz weighed 2 blue marlin on 30lb a 150kg & 80kg. Other reports were a further 2 weighed. We will bring you the confirmed results shortly. Most boats were fishing in close yesterday & saw results so we are staying in close today.
The inaugral Golden Lure Tournament started yesterday with 30 boats entered. Capt Trent and team Iona II consisting of Adam & Bailey Jordan, Robbie McCormack, Brad Godden, Tiny Harrison & deckhands Rhino & Tiny.
The Iona team have won this tournament twice before & Capt Trent on his boat Wild Child has taken it out 3 times. Here’s hoping history will repeat itself. Good luck boys!!!
Capt Adam on the Iona II headed from his home port of Newcastle to Port Macquarie last week and on his way north marked some nice fish, jumped off a blue marlin and caught some dolphin fish.
Saturday just gone Adam took the boys from Newcastle out for a mates day. Adam and the Iona II the fish raising machine it is raised and released a 200kg blue marlin and a striped marlin. Great going boys!
This is great news with the Port Macquarie Tournament coming up this weekend. Capt Trent will be at the helm of the Iona II during the tournament so keep tuned to our blog for our updates.
Capt Adam is out today on charter hopefully we will have some successful results for you tomorrow.
Firstly a belated Merry Xmas and all the best for a happy healthy and successful New Year from us at Iona.
Sorry for the lack of updates as we have been enjoying a bit of rnr after a very successful Cairns Giant Black Marlin Season on both the Iona and Iona II.
Capt Trent had an outstanding Cairns Season with 62 black marlin released in his 60 days of charter! 10of these over the 800lb mark and 1 over the magical 1000lb mark at 1050lb. Well done Trento a great season.
Capt Adam also had a very successful Cairns Season fishing only 28 days and tagging and releasing 23 black marlin. 3 of these over the 1000lb mark, a very nice 1200lb black marlin, an 11oolb black marlin and a 1050lb black marlin which gun deckhand Rhino got some some amazing shots of. What a cracka of a season for Adam we think he should get Rookie of the year!!!
Our photo gallery will be updated soon with some great pics of the season, also look out in the coming issue of Bluewater for some action shots from Cairns Giant Black Marlin Season taken from the Iona’s.
We already have bookings for the 2010 season if you are keen and have the opportunity to fish with us on board the Iona and Iona II contact us to secure some time now.