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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Capt AJ & crew along with Jason Younan & mates departed Hamilton Island on board the Iona II on Sunday and heading for Cairns. We are all keen to get the rods out & baits in the water.
We start our season on Sunday 29th August nice early start and hopefully we can get amoungst the little blacks straight off, will keep you tuned. We still have 7 days available the last week of September on board the Iona II with Capt Trent Visscher but they are the ony days we have available for the season on board the Iona & Iona II. We are looking forward to a cracker of a season both Capt AJ & Capt Trent chomping at the bit to get amoungst the big girls. We will keep you updated again this season with our daily successes, great pics by Rhino & great stories!!! Stay tuned……
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Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
Capt Adam ventured out to his usual haunt off Newcastle on Sunday with Darren Mehan and the boys from NCIG on board the Iona. The Iona II had a bit of a mishap so we brought the old girl down from Foster and it was good to see she still is a great fish raising machine. We had a bite on a lure from a striped marlin straight up and then an actioned packed triple header which saw us release a nice striped marlin. The boys were stoked and had a great day. We have some hot shots to follow.
We are taking the Iona II out to Lord Howe Island next week for Capt Trent Visscher’s wedding. Should be a great trip and looking forward to finding a few hot spots on the way and also around Lord Howe.
After Trent’s wedding we will be heading north with the Iona II to Airlie Beach as we have plenty of scaffolding work after Cyclone Ilui and will be based there for a few months before we head further north to Cairns for the Giant Black Marlin Season which we are heavily booked for already. Still have some time available so get in quick for our very competitive rates!
We wish Trent and his lovely lady Brooke all the best for their special day and best fishes to them both!!!!
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
On Saturday Capt AJ steered the Iona II to his regular haunt the Newcastle Bus Stop with business partner & ex Rugby League star Robbie McCormack ’s brother Greg McCormack and his colleagues from Bengalla Coal Mining. The boys started off a bit green, not sure why the seas weren’t that bad! Well we certainly kept their minds off the possibility of meeting Chuck & Ralph with an unbelievable day’s fishing.
We raised 13 fish and caught 6, 4 black marlin & 2 striped marlin. The day was one of the most promising of the season so far and after 5 1/2 hours fishing we were back in port & in front of the TV watching the Knights play with a few cold stubbies. We could have had double numbers if we stayed out but the boys did great holding themselves (or stomachs) together as long as they did and had a great day’s fishing! Good on ya guys & Capt AJ.
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Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Friday Capt Adam took out Reggie and the boys and again he produced the goods for the boys and tagged & released an 80kg striped marlin and a 120kg blue marlin and lost another 2 striped marlin. Cracker of a day! Reggie and the boys were impressed. Capt Trent is out today amongst the 200 or so boats in the Interclub Tournament, we will have an update in the morning.
Tags: black marlin fishing blog, blue marlin fishing australia, iona, marlin fishing Australia, marlin fishing blog, marlin fishing newcastle, marlin fishing port stephens
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Sunday, February 14th, 2010
Thursday Capt Adam had a bit of a frustrating day, raised 11 marlin had 3 bites and finally got the hook into a 200lb black marlin. Boys had a great day!
Yesterday Capt Trent ventured out with 6 eager anglers and they said that they would be just happy to see a marlin. But Capt Trent blew them away with a great days fishing releasing 3 striped marlin. The guys went away very happy!
Tags: australia marlin fishing, black marlin fishing blog, blue marlin fishing australia, game fishing, iona, marlin fishing Australia, marlin fishing port stephens
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Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Monday Capt Trent headed out to the Newcastle grounds and had a great day, he caught 2 striped marlin and lost a nice blue. Way to go Trent!
Capt AJ back out tomorrow stay tuned!
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Monday, February 8th, 2010
We did it! Capt Adam and the Iona II team took out the capture divisions of the Lake Macquarie Tournament with a 411lb blue marlin on 30lb tackle and a 98.5kg striped marlin on 30lb. We won by 9000 or so points, the official presentation is on Friday but we have taken out Champion Boat, Champion Angler, Champion Female Angler and maybe a couple of other awards will update after the presentation. Well done Capt Aj and the Iona team!!!
Tags: black marlin fishing australia, black marlin fishing blog, blue marlin fishing australia, fishing port stephens, iona, marlin fishing Australia, marlin fishing port stephens
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
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
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Monday, January 4th, 2010
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.
Tags: Black Marlin, black marlin blog, black marlin fishing cairns, cairns black marlin fishing, iona, Iona II
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