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"More experience, greater results"
Viking
II & Captain Bill Billson, the most successful and established
marlin fishing boat from Cairns to Port Stephens, Sydney Australia. |
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Capt Bill has been Game fishing all his life, and professionally sport fishing for 30 years, running Marlin fishing charters, sport fishing charters and exclusive Bluewater fly fishing charters, and one of the few owner operators in the industry.
Starting out as crewmen on Australia's top Marlin boats, and now recognized himself as Australia's No 1 sport fishing and game fishing boat Captain. This statement can be verified by his results through his history, No other Australian Captain comes close to his tournament achievements, as examples Capt Bill and his boats Viking and Viking II have won the prestigious Lizard Island Black Marlin Classic 5 times, and runners up just as many. As Captain he has also weighed the largest fish in this tournament numerous times. The largest tournament in the Southern-Hemisphere, the New South Wales interclub tournament, has also been won by Billson 4 times, this is to name just a few of his tournament results.
The Largest Blue Marlin weighed in Queensland, and the largest on 60kg in Australia 836lb, was caught on Viking 11 with Billson as captain and crew. The largest game fish ever to be caught on saltwater fly an incredible 289lb blue marlin on 20lb tippet, as well as the largest striped marlin on fly, 231lb on 16lb tippet, were all caught on Viking 11 with Billy Billson as captain.
He is consistently in the top placing on all tournaments from Cairns to Sydney. His list of Marlin captures for his clients is outstanding, to say the least, including Ten 1000lb plus marlin weighed, two over 1200 pounds . He is conservative in saying that he has tagged & released another 40 marlin over a thousand pound, in his long history. Billson and Viking II amazed the rest of the Cairns Fleet by consecutively catching over 100 fish for the Giant Black Marlin season, rarely done before. (101 & 105) using a new technique, in cairns waters, implemented by Capt Billy Billson.
He is consistently in the top few boats for most fish caught for the season, and has topped the fleet many times in his history.
Capt Bill's diversity in fishing excels with Bluewater fly fishing. Two of the most famous world records were caught off Viking II., with Billson as Captain. His Fly-fishing records include the largest fish ever caught on fly (289lb blue marlin on 20lb tippet) the largest striped marlin ever caught on fly ( 231lb striped marlin on 16lb ) So you can be sure you are in the best of hands when you chose a fishing charter with Capt Billy Billson.
His boat Viking 11, is perfectly appointed to provide, speed, maneuverability and comfort and is ideal for day trips, live-aboard charters, or working with a mother ship on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, and the east coast of Australia.
Viking 11 moves along the east Coast of Australia following the best marlin fishing seasons. His schedule includes. September to early December. Cairns Lizard Island region. December to January, April to August Gold Coast. February to April Port Stephens.
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