Victorian Marlin

[Dano]

didnt even know they existed :-o
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[cobby]

Hardly ground breaking, but very underground. Locals have been doing it for years with varying success. Same as those with 2 heads down south doing it from the Tamar River and Bridport instead of driving by car a little further to St Helens. Take a look at a map of the continental shelf south of Eden and pinpoint just how much boat travel you'll be doing for a "Victorian" Marlin. Travel that distance straight line and you'll probably end up high and dry on Flinders Island

[re-tyred]

It is a minimum of 48nm travel from Lakes entrance to get to where you will get an upwelling of the East Australia Current. So take a good boat and get the forecast right. When I was a profisher in the 70's and 80' we would see them plus lots of tuna and a few turtles. Usually around Autumn when the water temp peaks. They follow the East Coast current all the way down to Tassie then head east with the current and eventually circulate back to the Equator. These last few years the current has increase in strength due to the Pacific Decadel oscillation. Conditions are now similar to the 1960-1970 period. That is a warmer stronger current. These conditions should persist for a couple of decades.