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.
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Capt Adam Fires Again!
Saturday, March 6th, 2010Striped Marlin Galore!
Monday, March 1st, 2010Capt Adam went out Friday another successful day with 7 bites and 4 striped marlin. We got some great footage to follow shortly.
Reports from the Port Stephens Interclub sound promising with a few boats tagging 4 marlin on the first day of the tournament. We aren’t fishing in it this year unfortunately too many other business commitments keeping us off the water. We will be back out on Thursday and Friday.
Newcastle/Port Stephens firing!
Sunday, February 14th, 2010Thursday 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!
Capt Trent back at the Helm
Thursday, February 11th, 2010Monday 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!
Iona II wins Lake Macquarie Tournament
Monday, February 8th, 2010We 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!!!
Lake Macquarie Tournament
Sunday, February 7th, 2010This weekend we are fishing in the Lake Macquarie Tournament, a 2 day tournament. We were going to fish tag & release but an opportunity arose yesterday that we couldn’t resist! We caught a 411lb blue marlin on 30lb tackle in 3 minutes and put her on the deck. We are in the lead in the capture division lets see what today brings.
Capt Adam is on fire, in the last 7 days he has raised 22 marlin, had 15 bites and tagged & released 10 and caught 1 blue marlin. What a week!
During the week we had Robbie Green & friends for a 2 day charter, the first day was slow but the second day saved us as Capt Adam raised 7 had 3 on and caught 1. It certainly made up for the slow first day.
Stay tuned for the Lake Macquarie Tournament results.
9 from 11 & a Grand Slam what a day!
Sunday, January 31st, 2010Yesterday 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.
Golden Lure Tournament Wrap Up
Monday, January 18th, 2010Unfortunately 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.