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The Barramundi, also known as Asian seabass, is a species of catadromous fish in family Latidae of order Perciformes. This fish is of the same Genus as the Common Snook, which is found in the waters of Florida, Central and South America, the Caribb

96 Recfishwest Newsletter View this email in your browser Recfishwest Fishing Report 21/05/21 The metro mulloway madness has been heating up off Perth this past fortnight with Cody Suladra among fishers to catch a 1m-plus fish. See the Perth section

We’ve been getting a lot of interest over the last few weeks for dates for the upcoming giant black marlin season out of Cairns which runs from mid-September through the end of November. Unfortunately however we are fully booked an unable to t

Another giant black marlin season has come to an end on the Great Barrier Reef off Cairns on board KEKOA. As we moved away from the El Nino weather cycle that affected the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea in 2015 water temperatures in 2016 returned

I think that this pic of Scott Dave and Ray from our more recent trip says it all. After six days on the water three very tired yet very satisfied smiles.  Its been a great start to the season and very satisfying to be finding the good quality

With thanks to all of our wonderful anglers and clients we are fully booked for our 2016 Gulf of Carpentaria barramundi season and taking inquiries for 2017. We have a few light tackle dates in early September for the juvenile black marlin and only

5 days for this season October 3-7 have opened up today (that were held for the owner and now not able to be used!). Get in touch now if you are interested – they won’t last long!!  These are the only dates we have for this season.

The boys on this trip asked me why I wasn’t blogging this year! Alas but I am. On Facebook. You can see all our latest trip photos on there. I must admit its a lot easier to do it that way with the internet like it is over here. You can see ou

General Information The iconic Barramundi (Lates calcarifer) has been stocked in freshwater impoundments in Queensland for many years now beginning in 1985 I believe at Lake Tinaroo near Atherton from where a fish weighing 45kg has been recorded. In

If you’ve been following KEKOA’s travels over the years you’ll know it the time of year when we head west for our live-aboard barramundi fishing charter season. While we welcome our first guests for the season on board tomorrow (th

If you don't like crowds don't fish here. However for bait anglers this can be a very productive jetty. Spaniards, Giant and Golden Trevally, Queenfish, Barramundi, sharks and rays plus heaps more have been caught here. Early morning before t

September is changeover month in Cairns when we switch from light to heavy tackle marlin.  Traditionally we start heavy tackle season in the last week or so of September and this year is no different. But with the school holidays falling now we

96 Recfishwest Newsletter View this email in your browser Recfishwest Fishing Report 10/09/21 Picture: Perth Fishing Safaris Our Contributers Zach Relph Joachim Azzopardi Peter Fullarton John Curtis G'day > Here's another edition of the Recf

Our Capt. Luke headed to Townsville last week to fish the Mike Carney Billfish Challenge with Pete Val and Leigh O’Brien (O’Brien Boats). As most of you know we regularly fish this comp with Mike as angler but this time the team who spen

Well another great season is over and its time to reflect on the fishing…. but before I do our season recap I wanted to post up the story I shared over on the Blog after our return from fishing out wide at Holmes Reef in early November –

96 Recfishwest Newsletter View this email in your browser Recfishwest Fishing Report 12/11/21 Picture: Zach Relph Our Contributers Zach Relph Joachim Azzopardi Peter Fullarton John Curtis G'day > The Swan River has remained my fishing focus this

96 Recfishwest Newsletter View this email in your browser Recfishwest Fishing Report 09/04/21 Metro mackie! Eddie Sheppard has been among Perth fishers to get stuck into Spanish mackerel action in metro waters of late recently catching this Spaniard

96 Recfishwest Newsletter View this email in your browser Recfishwest Fishing Report 02/07/21 Picture: Marco Fraschetti Our Contributers Zach Relph Joachim Azzorpadi Peter Fullarton John Curtis Dear > Welcome to WA's biggest and best weekly fish

96 Recfishwest Newsletter View this email in your browser Recfishwest Fishing Report 15/01/21 The smile says it all! Vijay Haran made the most of glorious conditions and was more than happy with this plump dhuie while testing tackle with Tackle West

From the Captain himself!  A recap of KEKOA’s 2015 barra season in the Gulf of Carpentaria: We left Cairns the day after cyclone Nathan crossed the Far North Queensland coast making our passage relatively calm and an easy trip to Horn Isl