LIGHT, POWERFUL, DURABLE…
Billfishing remains steady INTUITIVE CONTROL EXMOUTH
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LIGHT, POWERFUL, DURABLE…
INTUITIVE CONTROL
Barry Taylor
This month’s report has been supplied by Connor Luff. GameX has been run and won, and there was a good turn-out this year. It started off pretty windy for the first couple of days, but then the weather game good, so everybody got a good crack. Out of the 237 billfish tagged, there were 161 black marlin, 68 sailfish, seven blue marlin and one striped marlin. There were 59 pointscoring fish weighed in, which included Spanish mackerel, shark mackerel, school mackerel, queenfish, golden trevally, cobia, dolphinfish, yellowfin tuna, striped tuna, wahoo, barracuda, spangled ALBERTON
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Maccy Dave has been putting his clients onto some good mackerel, but it was a surprise when a jobfish showed up as well. Image courtesy of @Maccydave. BRAESIDE
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