A big announcement this week with the dates for the 50th Anniversary Tournament – anniversary of the first 1000lb black marlin off Cairns. The tournament dates are 25-30th September 2016. Kekoa will once again be fishing this prestigious event and will be celebrating our 10th anniversary as a team after the first Kekoa (the Kekoa 47) was launched...

Well it’s begun! After a pretty uneventful trip down to Townsville from Cairns (even though we were straight-lining we usually see a few little blacks along the way. This time not so many! We did see this sailfish free feeding on the surface and managed to find a dead bait to pitch to him (left). After arrival we had a days R&R which we spent on b...

Some of the little black marlin action in the leadup to this weekend’s Mike Carney Toyota Billfish Challenge. © KEKOA Sports Fishing 2014. Content including images not to be reproduced in any form without permission. Visit our website to find out more about Cairns marlin fishing or Gulf barramundi fishing tours at www.kekoa.com.au.

We welcomed KEKOA regular and tourney major sponsor Mike Carney back on board for the tournament this year – and accompaning Mike a couple of familiar faces. Nigel Lucas who is part of the Toyota team with Mike and a tourney regular as well as Brian Christensen who hasn’t fished with Capt. Luke since the old Assegai days to return to fish with Mik...

I’ve been remiss!  Now that KEKOA has finally left Cairns for our giant black marlin season for 2014 I’ll be back and reporting weekly. But in the meantime here’s some shots from the last couple of weeks to catch up.   © KEKOA Sports Fishing 2014. Content including images not to be reproduced in any form without permission. Visit our website to fi...

We have KEKOA regular Jason “The Hass” Hassett joining us on board again this week for our first live aboard of the Cairns giant black marlin season.  And joining Jason again this year is son Josh for what is now his fourth year joining Hass on board with us.  And Josh has brought along his mate Harrison to keep the tradition of introducing marlin...

Well my reguar marlin season updates lasted a whole week! Haha! But as you know things are quite busy on the boat during the giant black marlin season each year. Aside from the marlin fishing we are of course spear bait and sport fishing in the mornings throwing poppers along the reef edge having a snorkel in the shallows there’s a lot happening a...

It has been really hard to get online this year to keep the trip reports up-to-date for several reasons. The boring reason being that phone and internet service on the reef this year are tough (perhaps due to damage from Cyclone Ita that went through earlier in 2014?). But the really exciting reason is because of the great black marlin fishing we...

Well known Kona skipper Capt. Chip Van Mols introduced daughter Jada and partner Dan to the reef this year fishing with us on KEKOA for 9 days immediately after the Lizard Island tournament.  While Jada is a seasoned fisherwoman and fresh from a week in Nova Scotia fishing for giant bluefin right before this trip she had an introduction by fire (w...

We had Anthony and Joe Andy and Sean joined us on board for five days in the last week of October and had a ball.  With most of us already friendly courtesy of what we like to call Fishbook we had no doubt that fun would await. And when the four amigos arrived fully resplendent in tuxedo shits and oversize sombrero’s (no they did not get in the wa...

Greetings We continue to see good sea bass fishing along with a mixture of bluefish trigger fish and flounder. The 10hr trip on the 8th returned early with a boat limit of seabass up to 4lbs. Our Veterans Day trip also saw some good seabass fishing with nearly everyone catching their limit. We are sailing 730am […]

Greetings We got out a few days this past week. The seabass fishing continues to be very good. The throwback to keeper ratio on Thursdays trip wasn’t as good as we have seen but we still had some limit catches. Fridays 10hr trip returned early with a boat limit of nice seabass bluefish and triggerfish. […]

Greetings We have seen very good seabass fishing since it opened last Saturday.  Limit catches have been common with the largest fish just shy of 4lbs.  There has also been a mixture of bluefish flounder and triggerfish. Our tile trip for Monday is cancelled due to high winds offshore.  We have added a regular seabass trip […]

Greetings We have only been out a couple times since the seabass closure. We had some beautiful weather on those trips but unfortunately the flounder bite was less than stellar. Zero wind and current made for a tough couple of trips.  We are seeing a good number of seabass but they all have to go […]

Greetings We have had some rough weather the past week and a half. We were only able to get out a handful of days.  Fortunately on the days we got out the flounder continued to cooperate for most folks. We are also seeing more of a mix of seabass now as the waters start to […]

Greetings Flounder fishing remained fairly consistent over the last couple weeks.  We did have a few slow days when the seas were sloppy. We have seen some folks catching their limit of flatties with the largest tipping the scales at 6 1/4lb. Seabass fishing still remains slow hopefully as the water cools the seabass bite […]

Greetings Fishing has picked up since our last report. We are seeing a mixture of seabass and flounder. Flounder fishing has been ok on most days with some folks catching their limit of flatties. Our largest of the week tipped the scales at 6.5lbs. The seabass bite has been mediocre but most folks are going […]

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