Marlin Action Continues off Townsville

With another great weekend of awesome weather, 14 Townsville Game Fishing Club boats made there way down to the waters of Bowling Green Bay and were once again treated to some magnificent Billfishing Action. I have not yet confirmed actual numbers tagged but after witnessing a heap of little Black Marlin jumping behind boats all over the place, I believe everyone got amongst some action at one stage or another. I do have actual confirmation that on the first day Sea Baby IV tagged 4 Billfish including a double hookup on Sailfish & then went on to tag another 4 on Sunday, Kanahoee tagged 6 for the weekend, the boys aboard Elektrakushen tagged 4 on Saturday & both Sedative & MOJO tagged 2 litte Black Marlin each.

The bait & marlin were very inconsistant thoughout the weekend but as usual the hot bite started like someone flicked a switch & numerous boats were hooked up at once.

After a red hot days fishing, a total of 9 club boats came together back at the Cape Bowling Green Spit for there tradional raft up & party...& as you would imagine it was one hell of a night

With the Billfish around in great numbers, as you would imagine the excitement is building around the place especially in the lead up to Billfish Bonanza (23rd & 24th August) & Gilbert Group NQ Mining Billfish Tournament (5th-11th September) and after a dissapointing season last year, I have no doubt this year will make up for it!!

Confirmed Stats are as follows:

Sea Baby IV - 8 Tagged (Including 2 Sailfish)
Kanahoee - 6 Tagged
Elektrakushen - 4 Tagged
Nail It - 4 Tagged (Including 1 Sailfish)
Sedative - 2 Tagged
MOJO - 2 Tagged
Flo-tation - 1 Tagged