Holiday time & FNQ’s magnificent weather has brought many punters out of the woodworks and back out on the water. Holiday makers from all around Australia and the globe were treated to some excellent fishing condtions throughout the christmas period along with some unreal catches such as Large Mouth Nannigai Red Emperor and Spanish Mackerel.... rea...

The Great Barrier Reef is home to some of the worlds most beautiful marine life. ‘Trout of many shades’

This happy angler hooked up and hauled in a “horse” of a coral trout………the trout have been biting better with some tropical rain coming on….

With just one week to go before KEKOA leaves Cairns to head over the tip and into the Gulf of Carpentaria for our 2013 Gulf Barra Season I couldn’t resist sharing some photos from previous years to get all of our returning guests as well as our new guests joining us for the first time in the mood! Retro filter for past season shots – a selection f...

As the clock counts down now until KEKOA departs Cairns for our fully booked Gulf Barramundi Season the boys have found some time to fish on the weekend and ‘get their barra on’! Luke’s been trialling a few lures that he thinks will smash the barras up on the rivers but it was the ‘old faithful’ Jonesy Rhino that put him onto this monster barramun...

In late October 2012 the KEKOA team hosted Queensland Weekender’s Dean Miller on board for a trip down the Ribbon Reef from Lizard Island to Cooktown. Aside from fishing for Giant Black Marlin we also showed Dean the true live aboard marlin charter experience complete with dinner at Lizard Island’s famous Marlin Bar a swim at the ‘Cod Hole’ at the...

Congratulations to Team KEKOA! Team KEKOA’s black marlin was the winner of the 2012 Lizard Island Great Marlin Race! Our fish traveled 1875nm making it a standout winner. Congrats team Capt. Luke and the wonderful Mr. Scotty Taylor. It was an awesome fish which gave us a great fight. We said it was released in excellent condition and it looks like...

Queensland’s barramundi fishing season is literally just days away from opening once again (that’s midday on February 1st in case you were wondering!) As we gear up now for our fourth Gulf Barra Season on board KEKOA Capt. Luke has been getting some pre-season practice in at the dam (exempt from season closures due to the fact that the fish are st...

There’s been a few great marlin action shots of KEKOA circa the 2009 Lizard Island Tournament circulating on the web and Facebook so I tracked down a few of the originals to share. These shots are courtesy of NSW DPI (our Australian tagging program) manager Phil Bolton who took these pics from Hard to Swallow (now Afishionado) who were fishing nea...

Still the best place in the world to catch giant black marlin An excerpt from Marlin Magazine article by Editor Dave Ferrell who joined KEKOA during the 2012 Giant black marlin season off Cairns: View the full article on Marlin Magazine online here. Thanks Dave – a pleasure to have on board! © KEKOA Sports Fishing 2012. Content including images no...

Wishing our extended KEKOA family our valued guests and team/crew and your families a very Merry Christmas and all the very ‘fishy’ best for 2013! © KEKOA Sports Fishing 2012. 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...

THe 2012 Cairns black marlin season has finished on a high with some of the best fishing we encountered coming in the last couple of weeks.  With the water temperature quite cool for most of the season Capt. Luke picked it for a late run and that is definitely what we experienced with the most exciting action happening wide of the bank on the tuna...

The 2012 marlin season has come and gone with Christmas now just around the corner.   Overall it was actually  pretty tough  with some good fishing in every month though some definite hard times experienced by all out there. This year we had a change around from La Nina to El Nino and I'm not sure if it was the cause but our water temperatures have...

The 2012 Ladies Ribbons Tournament was the final day of our regular heavy tackle season with Kelly and Kat from Mooloolaba GFC joining us again for the third year running. The one day comp was held on December 1st this year. This year Sue and Georgie joined Kelly and Kat and the team put in an impressive performance in the annual water bomb fight...

The 2012 Ladies Ribbons Tournament was the final day of our regular heavy tackle season with Kelly and Kat from Mooloolaba GFC joining us again for the third year running. The one day comp was held on December 1st this year. This year Sue and Georgie joined Kelly and Kat and the team put in an impressive performance in the annual water bomb fight...

From Pelagic’s The Waterman’s Journal a pictorial wrap up of team Pelagic’s trip to the reef during the 2012 giant black marlin season.   “The Pelagic Film Crew recently returned from an epic trip fishing during Australia’s heavy tackle season on the Great Barrier Reef with long-time Pro Team Captain Luke Fallon.  Five full days aboard Capt. Luke’...

Fished with Peds and Bernadette for 6 days getting a few bites from small ones at Lindenbank over the first 4 days without catching one then heard a whisper of a large aggregation of big eye tuna yellowfin tuna and black and blue marlin between 15 & 20 miles off Lindenbank. Fished out there for the last 2 days with great results getting Bernadette...

We finished up our final day of fishing with Team Pelagic USA yesterday with 4 from 5 marlin.  What an awesome end to what has been a fantastic trip. After quickly putting away a 250lb-er for Ron the big bite came on the right rigger to put Mike in the chair onto a solid 900lb black marlin.  It gave us plenty of photo opportunities with runs away...

Capt. Luke has been a Pelagic Pro Team member for many years but it’s the first time that we’ve been able to host the guys from the USA on the Great Barrier Reef. And so far it seems like they’ve picked the prime time for their first visit. We’ve done some swimming and snorkeling on the reef swum with whale sharks caught yellowfin and big eye tuna...

A fantastic last day of fishing for Rick Benitez from Miami.     Another two beauties released late this afternoon.   1 estimated 900lbs and 5 minutes later   hooked and caught a fish that I thought was a good 1100lber.   What a way to finish - in 4 days he caught 6 4 of which were "goose bump" marlin. Congratulations Rick - not quite sure how we'r...