Kekoa Sports Fishing

KEKOA Sports Fishing & Personalized Charters


Marlin Fishing Charters or Gulf Barra Tours

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Your whole operation is the best I have ever fished with! - Mike Curtius, December 2012

Cairns Marlin Fishing: Giant Black Marlin

KEKOA is a 56 foot O’Brien Boat custom built for the Cairns marlin fishing season. She integrates luxury, quality and comfort to cater for all your individual charter experiences.

KEKOA offers packages at all prime light/heavy tackle destinations on the East Coast of Queensland including Giant Black Marlin Fishing off Cairns, Lizard Island & Cooktown as well as light tackle marlin fishing off Townsville.

Gulf Barra Fishing Tours

KEKOA also offer extended live-aboard barramundi fishing tours in the Gulf of Carpentaria during the run-off season yearly from April to June.

Photo & Video

We hope you enjoy the marlin and barramundi action photos and video throughout our website. Every client who fishes with us takes home a disc of similar photos and video taken on their trip.

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Charter Options

Cairns Marlin Fishing


Giant Black Marlin Fishing Cairns


Gulf Barramundi Fishing


Light Tackle Marlin Fishing


More Charter Options


Watch the video from the Queensland Weekender TV’s crew time on board KEKOA.

Recent News & Fishing Reports

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    Carpentaria Barra Season Wk 10: Keeping up with the Jones

    June 11, 2013
    With Capt. Bobby Jones, Lorraine, Noel (Jones) and Chris on board its been a fun week with these guys who regularly fish together. We are now winding up our season 2013 in the Gulf of Carpentaria will soon head home to Cairns. Next up – the juvie black marlin in...
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    Carpentaria Barra Season Wk 9: Victoria’s on FIRE

    May 31, 2013
    Photos to come – has been very busy on MV KEKOA these past few days. Some highlights: JD hasn’t quite found his sea legs yet. Yesterday he went for an impromptu swim. I heard he also found out from the experience that he can also walk on water! ;-)  Message...
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    Carpentaria Barra Season Week 8: Oh what a feeling!

    May 24, 2013
    We have Mike Carney and his Toyota team back on board with us at the moment. And we’re back in phone range (so the blogs will be more regular again!) and fishing in one of our all-time favourite spots. The first two days so far have seen the boys enjoying...
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    Carpentaria Barra Season: Week 7 – There’s always big bananas

    May 19, 2013
    Some of NQ’s big faces in the banana farming industry are back on board with us again this week. Here’s some photos of the action fishing two different locations on the Gulf of Carpentaria coast. River and beach barra and lots of other species as well.
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    Carpentaria Barra Season: Week 5 – Burls was here, promise!

    May 7, 2013
    I’m a bit behind with photos this week as we are back in Weipa for changeover and a new GPS…but that’s another story! Tougher fishing this week but the boys are still going home with full fish boxes. Burls was here…though not sure how he managed to avoid the photos!