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Captain Luke Fallon’s dream of a life on the sea started while day dreaming in the school classroom, and now 20 years on Luke has carved out a career, which has seen him become one of the most respected, and successful Captains chartering the East Coast of Australia.
Working the decks as a 16 year old for many of the regular Cairns Heavy Tackle captains such as Jim Dalling, Greg Edwards, Terry Parker, Bill Billson and the likes, enabled Luke to lay the foundation for his already successful career. His eye for detail, strong work ethic and enthusiasm left such an impression on the fishing fraternity that they had no doubt that Luke Fallon would start the next generation of successful skippers to fish the Great Barrier Reef
Luke’s resume includes being at the helm of The Warrigal, Reef Hunter, Reel Easy 2 and the last 5 years on the Assegai. Throughout these times Luke has competed and been successful in many of the big game fishing tournaments along the coast from Lizard Island to Bermagui. Some of Luke’s highlights have been catching 9 big marlin in a single day heavy tackle fishing, and a career that has landed many fish close to and above 1000lbs, the biggest being a staggering1298lbs.
Luke is now relishing the opportunity to be at the helm of his latest charge, a brand new
47-foot custom built vessel KEKOA, coming from the already popular and very successful stable of O’Brien boats in Townsville, Australia. Luke’s years of experience have been moulded into the 47ft design, working hands on with the highly renowned boat building team of Peter and Leigh O’Brien ensuring that nothing is left to spare in producing the ultimate game fishing weapon. |
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