June 29th, 2010 | By Rowan Stanek
If this doesn’t reinforce the message, nothing will: always have your fishing licence on you when you’re on the water! The crew aboard Citation lost close to US $1 million after being disqualified from the 52nd annual Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament in North Carolina.
June 28th, 2010 | By Rowan Stanek
For anyone who missed the article, read Grant Dixon’s story from NZ Fishing News recounting their readers’ trip to New Caledonia’ west coast with Ocean Blue. Plenty of good GTs were released, including a few 40kg+ specimens and a 28kg GT caught on snapper gear!
June 25th, 2010 | By Rowan Stanek
Check out this amazing bait ball footage from the BBC series, “Blue Earth”. This video gives an incredible underwater perspective of the mayhem around an underwater seamount around lunchtime, we love it when the school of yellowfin come in towards the end!
June 24th, 2010 | By Rowan Stanek
A quick reference guide for the Japanese PE rating system used to measure the diameter of modern braid fishing lines. Using these figures you can accurately predict how much you’ll be able to fit on your spool based on the line’s PE rating.
June 24th, 2010 | By Rowan Stanek
Check out this amazing video of world champion freediver Guillaume Nery’s special dive in the Bahamas at Dean’s Blue Hole, the deepest blue hole in the world. This was also filmed entirely on breath hold by the French champion Julie Gautier…
June 16th, 2010 | By Rowan Stanek
We stumbled across this video that Jon Shaw at ginclearfilm recently shot at Fish Rock Cave off South West Rocks, featuring some awesome underwater footage. It reminded us of last years world record freedive through the same treacherous tunnel…
June 15th, 2010 | By Rowan Stanek
Andrew Cox, the new Australian Jigging Master agent, recently got back from his first trip to the legendary Three Kings Islands in New Zealand. Read the report and check out all the photos from the trip below!
June 11th, 2010 | By Rowan Stanek
Check out this new video of Dan Theodoulou’s awesome dogtooth tuna!
Caught jigging off Fiji’s Ono Island, Dan hooked this beast on the very first drop of the trip, setting the new resort record at 65kg!
June 4th, 2010 | By Ocean Blue
A Near Miss!
This is definitely a moment when you don’t want your pull-start to fail!
June 3rd, 2010 | By Rowan Stanek
NSW Fisheries Management Regulation 2010
Recently made available for public consultation, this document proposes a commercial fishing ban on striped marlin, news that will no doubt be welcomed by the state’s recreational game fishers.
