Day Out at Bowling Green

With the postponement of last weekends Billfish Bonanza due to the bad weather on Saturday, 12 Club boats still made the trip out on the Sunday and although that it was a little untidy during the morning , weather dropped nicely to the predicted 5/10knots.

Todd O'Shaughnessy who was fishing aboard Anthony Florence's Boat, Flo-Tation, reports that conditions were a little different compared to last week with the grounds lacking in baitfish and the clean water very hard to find...

Although the fishing conditions weren't ideal, I have confirmed reports that Flo-tation, Cruisecraft, Cleveland Steamer & the crew from another(un-confirmed name) boat all successfully tagged one billfish each.

With weather predictions looking real good for this weekend I have no doubt that there will be more Billfish news from the grounds real soon.

Above Photo: Todd O'Shaughnessy with a little Black tagged aboard Flo-tation

Bowling Green On Fire!!!

With some good weather last weekend a contingent of Club boats hit the waters of Bowling Green Bay hoping to get amongst some 2008 Billfish action & boy was there some action.

With bait schools the size of football fields, gannets all over the place like they were 10 years ago, there were packs of 5-6 Billfish at a time terrorising baits with multiple hook-ups not uncommon. Every boat experienced action sometime throughout the weekend but it was the stand outs such as Rose Red who had a massive 19 hits on one morning, Leigh O’Brien on his new boat OB26 who tagged 4 fish & Mark & Jan Parkes aboard there new Boat, Mojo with 3 tags. All fish have grown slightly compared to the early season captures with most fish up around the 15kg-20kg.

All this excitement has happened at the right time with the Billfish Bonanza fast approaching this weekend 26th & 26th July & with the grounds firing, it is looking like it will be a fantastic Tournament. See you down there!!

Photo Right: Young Reece O'Brien first ever billfish caught aboard his Dad's new boat OB26

Princess C Tags Marlin

Further to my report from yesterday lunch time, I'd like to advise that Princess C successfully tagged & released a little 12kg Black Marlin yesterday afternoon...Good job guys!!

Update from the Grounds

Mick Meires aboard his good ship Princess C is currently on the Billfish Grounds down at Bowling Green. Mick has reported that the yakka schools are still very plentiful throughout the area but at this stage the crew have only witnessed the 1 small Black Marlin which he estimated at approx 10kgs when it presented itself in there spread, unfortunately though they were unable to get a bite out of it. In the mean time, they have been kept very busy with great numbers of Yellowfin Tuna to 20kg and Spanish Mackerel to 8kg

Stay tuned for further updates as they come to hand