GFH Would like to introduce and welcome Rip Charts as our lastest online partner.

Rip Charts offers the finest satellite imagery service on the market directly aimed towards anglers. The service offers True Colour Imagery, Sea surface temperature, Chlorophyll imagery, and Altimetry data and you can select the dates in which you want to view.

Once you are logged in you can select your region and the type of chart/data you are interested in. You also have the option to overlay the map with currents, Bathymetry, Altimetry, reports and labels.

Although these services are an invaluable tool to anglers, the feature that sets them apart are the reports.

The RipCharts team and their various contributers/members can add a capture/tag report with the exact GPS marks, a description, photo, and other important data. These reports are also overlayed on the maps. Combining all of these features creates an amazing visual image of the ocean patterns and shows exactly where the fish are/were at a particular time/date.

Check them out today www.ripcharts.com

Sea surface temperatures, overlayed with currents and showing some marlin captures/tags

Currents and reports
 

A Great Read -The Complete Guide To Game Fishing, by Glen Booth & Alistair McGlashan

Game fish, from the humble bonito to the majestic black marlin, are accessible to anglers from many walks of life, and can be caught from boats as basic as the family runabout, right up to luxury sportfishing cruisersfitted with all the mod cons.

The Complete Guide to Game Fishing covers the basics of how to catch over 30 popular game species and will help you locate, hook and ultimately capture — or tag, as is more often the case these days — these mighty fish on a more regular basis.

It covers everything from where to find a given species, what tackle to use, step-by-step guides on rigging lures and baits, how to recognise the often subtle signs that can lead to greater game fish success, and what makes a successful and safe game fishing boat. There is advice on looking after the various bluewater species that might be kept for the table, and even a section on photography to help create a permanent record of that special catch.

This book is also about appreciating the amazing environment that game fishing takes place in and theincredible sea life that lives above and under the water.It is said that no two days offshore are ever the same and even on no-fish days,observant anglers will always see or learn something new.With increasing numbers of game fish being tagged and released every season, there is also an important section on best tagging practices, satellite tagging, and releasing fish in a way that is safest for the fish and its captor.

Authors Glen Booth and Alistair McGlashan are two well-known fishing writers with many decades of bluewater fishing experience between them.

Glen has visited many of the world’s game fishing hotspots as an angler, deckhand, writer and photographer. He has been a key figure in the fishing media for over twenty-five years, including editing Modern Fishing, the National Australian Fishing Annual, and Barra, Bass and Bream Digest.

Al spends more than 200 days a year on the water. He contributes to dozens of magazines, both locally and internationally, does weekly fishing reports for radio stations, has authored four books on fishing, and produced the Strikezone DVD range, which is now a TV series. He donates time to assisting in fisheries research, visiting schools, and is a government advisor on sustainable fishing.

Anyone interested in a copy can buy one from any good book store or online at Wellsys Tackle

Captain Tim Dean can arrange the ultimate deep sea, marlin fishing charter to anywhere along the East Coast of Australia from Port Stephens to Cairns North Queensland. Come and explore the great deep sea fishing charters Calypso can offer you at great locations and at great prices.

Continue reading for more info on Calypso and to see their availability for the upcomig Cairns season.

Castille Charters 2011 Cairns heavy tackle season is almost fully booked but Captain Dean Beech has a few great openings available, including some excellent time in October 10 - 15, 22 - 26 and 1 - 7 November. Contact Dean Beech here. 

September to December every year the Female Big Black Marlin come into the Reefs of North Queensland to spawn. The area is huge over 200 Nm long. Most of the breeders are between 700 and 1300lbs. There are also many male marlin 200 lbs up with the females which give our angler plenty of chances to catch all sizes of marlin.

It is a fact that 70% of all 1000+lbs Marlin in the world caught or released each year are caught of The Great Barrier Reef. If you want to catch a grander marlin, fishing of Cairns is by far the best chance you can give yourself.

The action never stops from dawn to dusk. We usually start with a snorkel on the GBR, then some bait fishing, jigging and popper throwing for many different species. They include Scad, Mackerel, Yellow fin and dog tooth tuna, queen fish, coral trout, Giant trevally and of course Giant Black Marlin. We usually wind up and head to our anchorage behind the reef about 6 PM each night.

FREE DVD record of your trip for every guest.

Castille III is fitted with 8 state-of-the-art HD cameras that will record all of the action - including an underwater Tow-cam.

COME WITH US ON THE CASTILLE III FOR THE ULTIMATE FISHING EXPERENCE.

Traditions 2011 Cairns heavy tackle season is almost fully booked but Captain Tim Richardson has a few great openings available, including some excellent late September time and due to a couple of clients not being able to make it, some GREAT OCTOBER dates have now opened up. Email Capt Tim for your chance to catch the fish of a lifetime.

Capt Tim is currently fishing in the Carribean on the 61' Garlinton "AMBUSH" and are available for charter till late August for the blue marlin season and cruising.

Below is a sneak peak of the 2010 Cairns -Lizard Island black marlin season on board the TRADITION with Capt Tim Richardson on Australias Great Barrier Reef.
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