Fishing on Number 10 ribbon reef angler Bill Borkan from Miami Florida Tagged a 900 pound Black Marlin with a satilite tag. The fish was very healthy when released. Bill has been fishing in Australia since 1988 when he fished on the Kamari with Geoff Furguson and myself. Bill had a great 5 days fishing. We [...]
There’s been plenty of great fishing for the team on Castille since the last update–from fishing Osprey Reef with Step and Mark Ripper (blue and black marlin) and our latest trip fishing with Bill Borkan out of the Lizard Island Lodge where we’re up to 10 giant black marlin four days fishing including some good [...]
Team Castille released another big fish on Day 5 of the Lizard Island Tournament yesterday tagging a solid 850lb-er for Chris Caron with a satellite tracking tag. The fish gave an awesome aerial display and Tara took these great photos — you can see the satellite tag on its side. The satellite tags track the [...]
Well the weather is great and it is day 1 of the Tournament. Good luck to everyone. There are 22 boats and ready to start at 11 am.
We started our first charter with a South Africian familly. Barnie, Barnie junior and mum Bonny Barnard. The Giant trevally fishing was a bit slow but we ended up catching a few nice ones and some nice trout. But for the son BJ. He caught a dog tooth tuna about 150 lbs. he was only [...]
THe weather has been great and we fished the Innisfail tournament last Friday to Sunday. Our anglers were Ben Heath and Anthony Genocchio. The winning boat was Jim an I. We caught 2 from 4 sailfish.
Castille III has returned to Townsville for the start of the light tackle season which culminates in the Townville Billfish Challenge on September 2-7, after which she will head further north for the Innisfail Game Fishing Club tournament and Cairns for the 2011 Giant Black Marlin Season in late September. On the way through the [...]
