Action started early Saturday morning with the 13 boats that had entered putting lines in the water at 7am. Lucky Jack was the first cab off the rank with a blue marlin tagged on 24kg at 8.13am and had a further 3 strikes. Hinaura was on the board by tagging another blue on 24kg at 12.45
Charles Wheeler skippering Nevergiveup found a marlin on top of Blue Hat for his gun lady angler Gail McPhee who was fishing on15kg line. Russ Housby, the deck hand was clearing the gear when they had a second bite and another solid hook up. With the cockpit already a buzz of action Russ had to fight his fish off the bow with a thong or jandle as a gimble. This fish was also tagged but the big disappointment was that Russ was not a resisted angler.
Reel Capture tagged another blue later in the day and returned at the end of day one with 2 X mahi-mahi to weigh in.
Day two proved hard going with another 7 marlin strikes amongst the fleet however no fish tagged.
For the weekend there were 24 strikes with 5 tagged and 4 qualifying as tagged. The biggest marlin seen for the 2 days was estimated to be around 100kg
Shogun was a non starter for this comp as we were preparing for the arrival of Bruce Martin and Carl Angus in another world record attempt capturing a blue marlin on 3kg line class. The fishing for this week turned out slow with only two marlin raised and one on for the six days. On day three a little bit of luck went our way with a sail fish swimming into the teaser spread and was captured a short time later to take out a new Vanuatu record for 3kg. At the weigh in the fish tipped the scales at 35.8kg.
The fish have been back on the bite for the rest of November with V-Factor and most of the fleet returning home with good catches and marlin tag flags flying. Shogun had a good final week with a 3 marlin day followed by four Vanuatu light tackle records for a group of Aussie anglers.
Pete Phillipps
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