Well another Cairns season has come and gone, but we finished this year on a high, landing a 950lb black marlin for Katie. This was our last marlin charter for the season and by far the most exciting. Over the last 2 days of the charter, we had times where there were 6 fish up [...]
The 26th Lizard Island Black Marlin Classic started yesterday with 7 of the 26 boats tagging marlin, Castille Charters being one of those boats – well done team! The tournament runs from 20-27 October 2012 and is hotly contested every year. Keep up to date with the action over the tournament – click here to [...]
OCTOBER UPDATE Our season kicked off this year with owner Mark Ripper in Townsville for some light tackle fun. The juvenile black marlins were very active this year. Mark caught and released 5 from 8 bites, all fishing on 6 kg congrats to Mark! Our next group to join us was Shane and friends Kyron [...]
Castille Charters has arrived! With 2 happy charters already under our belt, let the games begin. After a change over in Cairns from our last charter out of Cooktown, the team are back out today on a 5 day Coral Sea charter. Good luck to our punters on board! “The thrill of Marlin Fishing is [...]
What a strong start to the season! Castille Charters arrived in Townsville over the weekend and kicked off the season with a bang! Owner Mark is on board to start the season off with his first two days of fishing going 5-4-2, tagging two sailfish on Sunday and 2-2-2, tagging two juvenile black marlins on [...]
Captains Update from the Bridge With the warmer weather of spring upon us, we are ready to head north to start the annual light tackle season. With a record year for small blacks and some saying the best for 20 years, now is the time to book your “trip of a lifetime”!! We still have [...]
Catch your Grander aboard Castille Charters III 1000lb plus black marlin are a plenty in the warm waters of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) and the crew on Castille Charters III have caught more than their fair share. It is a fact that 70% of all 1000+lbs black marlins in the world caught or released [...]
