Gallery

: Mitch helps a perfect specimen scad show off his good side

: Marlin spills his guts, previously tagged fish

: Long distance release, snapped off right here

: Offloading fresh water to the thirsty

: Hang in there baby

: Black marlin bill, ready for preservation

: Mothership and her chicks

: All that’s left after the taxman takes his cut

: Dawn on the reef

: Aidan the Horse, with Goldfinger Mitch

: Sunrise on the reef

: Tiger shark, caught by Steve, Goldfinger on the leader

: Steve wrestles with a tiger shark

: Horse with a horse of a coral trout, caught on a popper, released

: Horse stitches up a bait

: Tony and Steve pulling in the scads

: Mitch and Gaz demonstrate bait techniques to Tony and Steve

: Offloading the last of our baits to the less fortunate

: 10 meters long log was jammed across both bows

: November Rain out on the Great Barrier Reef

: Mitch get’s himself bitch slapped

: Our transport

: World Famous

: Mitch and Aidan under the 1150 pound black

: Mitch cleans up

: Aidan inspects a hummingbird nest over the pool table

: The crew surprised Gaz and Lori with new sun hats, which how somehow already gotten lost

: Mitch takes a Jet-Ski tour out Crocodile watching

: Mitch rigging a scad

: Baby geckos are appearing around the boat

: Aidan rigs a bait under Mitch’s tutalage

: Black Marlin

: Aidan is hooked up on a big girl

: Lizard Island

: Lori with Spanish Mack

: Aidan sniffs the bait for freshness

: Gaz rigging up a swim bait

: Ultimate Lady

: Mitch wrangles a 600 pounder

: Playing with Red Bass

: Aidan keeps a tight line on a big girl,

: She’s a really big girl, but takes a lousy photo

: Turtle

: Giant Clams

: Giant Clam

: Cairns, here we come!

: The crew, ready to party!

: Horse and Goldfinger tanning their guns

: Gaz puts the rods away

: All along the watchtower. Flinders Reef

: Lori’s Black Marlin, Goldfinger on the wire

: Our pets, roosting on the poop deck

: Lori’s Cyclops

: Sushi dinner with our yellowfin

: Mitch leaders a feisty sailfish for Aidan

: Tail walking

: Birds and Bait

: Double hook up for the boys

: Birds and Bait

: Lori with a tuna, released

: Sailfish

: Sailfish

: Billfish Ballet

: Sailfish

: Acrobatics right at the boat

: Goldfinger leaders a sail

: Sailfish Bonaza in New Caledonia

: Nice GT for Lori, released

: Mighty nice GT for Aidan, released

: Off for a tiki tour in the wop wops

: Repairs on the steering pump

: Horse’s Coral Trout

: Tax man takes his share

: GT for Mitch

: Goldfinger and his dog

: A Horse and his Dog

: Horse tries his luck with poppers

: Horse

: Goldfinger

: Horse and a Travelly

: Goldfinger

: Aidan on the rod

: Doggies

: Double hook up. Mitch with a red bass and a coral trout. Released

: Gaz in the tuna tower

: Gilligan’s Island

: Lori and a foul hooked GT, released

: November Rain

: Gaz replaces the alternator that went down in flames

: Mitch shows off dinner

: Wahoo!

: November Hurricane sitting on mid level tide

: The long and the short of it; Lasse and Laura, former crew members

: Got to be 70 + kgs

: Aidan and Lasse with 50+ kg yellow fin

: This fish ended up being the smallest one caught that day!

: Gaz and his panty and bra collection.

: Extremely zoomed in and blown up in post editing. Not really my best effort.

: Dolphin at sunset

: Lori leaders a bill fish

: Lori smashes it on the tuna

: Aidan casts a popper into a frothing school of yellow fin tuna

: Billfish Babe

: Blue Marlin

: Leading Lisa’s Blue

: Our secret place

: The monster under my bed; this doggie was estimated to be 60 to 70 kgs.

: A good fight

: Second sailfish for Lasse

: Aidan

: Who let the dogs out?

: Best fishing ever

: Sunrise into Diver’s Bay

: Ureparapara

: Ureparapara welcome November Rain

: Lasse’s first sailfish, with Aidan at the tail, Lisa on the bill

: Praise Be

: Lisa, Lori and Aidan

: First Mahi-Mahi

: Playing my fish guitar

: Misty Mountain Top

: Beautiful waterfall on Maewo Island

: Aidan shows off his prize, with Lisa on the leader

: Aidan’s prize

: Lisa and Aidan

: Lori with just another wahoo

: Praise Be!

: Lisa’s first doggie

: Me and my little Doggie

: Lori on a doggie.

: Another beautiful sunset off Wusi

: Local ladies show us how its done

: Gaz gets a turn on a popper rod

: Lisa doles out the daily catch to the locals

: Lisa and Lasse cast poppers

: The scenery is stunning

: The tax man collects from Aidan

: Lisa

: Wahoo mania

: Ni-Vanuatu villagers great us every evening at anchor

: November Rain in her home-sweet-home on Aore Island.

: Lasse GT on a popper

: Gaz and Ryan in the crow’s next

: Ryan’s first GT

: Ryan on a GT

: Walpole Island

: Captain Gaz

: Walpole Island

: Frigate birds

: Lisa cleans the deck of suicidal flying fish

: Sushi/Sashimi Bonanza

: Booby Birds

: Ryan’s first wahoo is a decent specimen

: Lasse’s first yellow fin

: Lasse with his first yellow fin tuna

: Ryan leaders Aidan’s first Blue

: Aidan on his first striped marlin

: Lasse shows his aura off while Aidan fights a kingy

: This one went back

: Lasse with his first legal size snapper.

: Lisa shows us who is boss

: Lisa demonstrates her knife skills

: The kingfish put up a great fight.

: Relationship Goals: Find a man that looks at me like Aidan looks at his first NZ Snapper

: Garry’s Fishing Boat and Chinese Laundry Service

: Aidan reels in a skip jack tuna, with Lisa leading

: New Zealand’s North Cape

: The view as we leave Bay’s Water Marina

: The crew (left to right) Ryan, Garry, Lori, Aidan, Lisa and Lass

: Garry teaches Aidan and Lasse the basic knots

: Lori’s Snapper

: Sean’s Snapper – You be the judge of who’s is bigger!

: Close up

: Sean on a stripey

: Barry leaders for Yvette

: Sean leaders for Yvette

: New crew, Yvette and Sean get an orientation to the helm by Garry

: The troops settle into their barracks

: My best snapper, released

: Gaz at his workbench again

: A restful night in a peaceful anchorage

: Tony’s whooper, released

: Glenn’s keeper, unfit to be released

: Bobby”s photo worthy snapper, released

: Kerry with a small kingie, released

: Bobby is camera shy, so Tony shows off the Golden Snapper, released

: Kerry’s on something

: Tony with kingfish

: Brendan with kingfish, released

: Mike on the jig rod

: Glenn has words with a barracuda

: Barracuda, released

: Mike on the one that got away

: Kerry help the fish present her best side to the camera

: Brennan’s fish puts on a show

: Hook removal

: Bill damage to boat

: Towing the beast

: Glenn leaders, the fish’s stomach has been expelled

: Fish’s bill taking a chunk out of the fishing platform

: Kerry, ready with the tag pole

: 1000 pictures and this is the best one.

: Glenn cools off Tony’s hot feet. What service!

: Gaz motors back on a fish

: The troops support Tony on a striped marlin

: Tony fights a 140 kg stripey

: Kerry documents the action from the flybridge

: Glenn digs his heels in on a Blue Marlin

: Lori’s Tom Bowling Bay snapper, released

: Brennan’s Mako

: Giant Trevelly

: Red Bass caught on a popper

: Coral Trout

: Jonas with a Monster Doggy

: Snapper

: Job Fish

: Baraccuda

: Jonas with Dog tooth tuna

: Lori with a small doggie

: Lori with a Wahoo

: Jonas gets a nice GT

: Jonas gets ready to release his marlin

: Laetitia’s first marlin

: Jonas catches his first GT jigging

: Black GT, caught with jigging

: Leon with a dog tooth tuna

: Laetitia with a small doggie

: Blue Marlin

: Marlin just before release

: Glenn releasing Tony’s Blue

: Gaz got this guy on a strip bait. Released after photo

: Kerry fought this bad boy for all of 5 minutes on 37 kg. Winched him in.

: Kerry and our dinner guest

: Jonas get a wahoo

: This little guy gave us a huge show

: Anna with a nice red bass

: Manu gets close to his tuna

: Sailfish gives up a show

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