We offer personalised multi-day live aboard marlin fishing charters fishing off Cairns & along the Great Barrier Reef to Fraser Island
— With Captain Luke Fallon —
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May – Sept annually: Fraser Island. Booking Now! More about fishing Fraser Island.
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Cairns blue marlin
Cairns isn’t really known for its blue marlin fishery but it can be very good at times. We regularly catch blues trolling lures off the edge during the season. This is one from early November wide of Linden Bank. To be perfectly honest we would have expected more blue marlin action than we got but I guess we have the whole of the rest of the year at Fraser Island to target the line burners!!
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A catch up shot of Anna's big fish at the end of October. She did so good in the chair! #bigfishphotos
And little story from me (Kelly) below to go with:
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Fried rice bite!!
(explained below)
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This is the fish with the big head. We always say that the big fish have small heads. This one was (is!) super long and super skinny. Still a big one, but filled out would have been a wooooaaahhh fish I think!!!
Big fish and calm days are the best ever combo for photos. When this fish bit, I was in the tower with Luke. We often eat lunch together. We were eating Kelly’s special fried rice with battered fish and prawn toppers (yum if I do say so myself). We saw the bite and I was off scrambling downstairs with a mouthful of rice. Big one!!
Luke says “where are you going? We haven’t even hooked it yet?”. Kelly = “I don’t care, I need to be down there!!! “
We hooked it.
I hot tailed it down two flights to the deck to wind in the third rod and then headed back to the bridge where I keep my camera gear, to take photos. I switched cameras and came downstairs from the bridge once the peg mark was on the reel which is my habit. Sometimes it’s a rush because depending on the bait, the peg mark on the shortest bait is only 22 arm spans. This fish bit the stinger so I had a bit more time (as we troll the stinger in a different postcode😂).
Except that I didn’t have more time. I got downstairs and the first jump, no shoot. Camera is no go. Error, error. Proceed to freak out. So I scrambled back upstairs switched this lens onto my other camera body and rush back down. Still freaking out, do a few test shots, adjust the settings, this is very first shot after all of that. And then it did proper leader jumps.
I think it was worth the stress lol. What do you think?
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Cool shot, very impressed about the fish and prawn topper for lunch😎
Your pics are definitely WorldClass Kell , keep doing what you do , love your photos...👌👌❤️
PS that's the head of a scaley mackerel you see out of its mouth on the left there. For scale!
Great story and awesome photo Kelly
So good...does not look real.
Awesome shot 👍
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Marlin Art & Photography
Kelly’s latest photos and art from Instagram below. Photography from on board KEKOA. More information about Kelly’s work here.
