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LAND based gamefishing (LBG) is within reach of the average person. It’s always challenging, but the possibility of not knowing what you're going to hook next is what keeps us coming back.

What comes to mind for me – and many other anglers – is catching a land-based black marlin (Istiompax Indica). It’s the holy grail, a crowning achievement of fishing and there are few ledges that can still be fished for marlin within Australia and the world. That make this even more challenging! When the tropical currents push down the Australian East Coast there is nowhere more productive than the sandstone ledges of point perpendicular, Jervis Bay.

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