Friday, October 10, 2008

Accurate Boys Hit Great Barrier Reef





We just got off the Great Barrier Reef on Friday, October 3rd. We fished 4 days with Captn. Laurie Wright out of Cairns, Australia. 

This was great adventure trip, we took off from Cairns toward the Great Barrier Reef. The reef is about 30 miles off the coast. Each day we would troll outside of the reef in the open ocean. At the end of the day we would just come to the inside of the reel where the water was really calm. Pretty cool how you can be so far out and be safe behind the reel for the night. We would sleep on the boat then wake up in the morning for some skin diving and jigging on the reef. After a couple of hours of playing around we would head outside the reef to troll for the Giant Black Marlin. In 4 days we ended up traveling about 400 miles north of Cairns. 

Fishing was pretty good. We ended up with raising 7 Black Marlin and tagging 3 of them between 200 -450 pounds. We were looking for the 1000 pounder!! Now we'll have to go back next year and do some more product testing! 

Thanks Laurie, Davo and Dingo, we had a great time on the boat. Check out their website at Australian Fishing Adventures

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