Dragging baits around Gove

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Dragging baits around Gove

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Last week we fished the Carlton vb NT Billfish championshipn hosted by Gove game fishing club. We headed up to Wilberforce which is 20 miles NW of Gove harbour and started fishing by 10 o' clock we tagged our first fish a marlin around 27kgs :clap: on 15 a good start for the comp and that was the only fish we raised for day 1.
Day 2 saw us fishing over a couple nice bait balls we raised a nice sail but couldn't set the hook. 15 min later we raised another sail and set the hook on nice fish around 23kgs. :mrgreen: and again that was last fish we raised all day.
Day 3 we found a nice colour change fish it hard for 4hours before raising 2 sail dropping both fish :banghead:
Day 4 we started fishing in front of No Name bay over few bait balls and 1/2 hour later we tagged a small marlin around 18kgs (125 cm) which turn out to be winning fish for us :cheers:
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Top results guy,s :mrgreen:
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Congrats on three great fish and a great result :cheers:
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Well done good to see you got amongst them..... 8-) 8-) :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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Post by Balls »

G'day Fly

Congratulations on the win, its a great area, we fished it a couple of years ago & stayed on the Islands, have to get back there one day & fish it again, cheers Balls.
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Post by Moonman »

Nice work over there Fly! God to get a few on board and take it out...
Might have to give up this barra gig and head out wide for some of that action! 8-)

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Post by fly »

Thanks Moonman,balls,andrew,faulksy&john I will be moving back to Gove next month so i will be slowing down chasing barra and get back into my blue water fishing again . I will miss the barra fishing the Daly. So if any FFF fisho make it over here give me email so we can go for a fish :drinking1:
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