Captain
Craig "Sparra" Denham
Member since October 2016
Main Beach, Australia
- Background
- Captain Craig "Sparra" Denham has been in the fishing charter industry for over 30 years, during which time he has explored numerous sportfishing hotspots, including Fiji, New Zealand, New Guinea, Hawaii, Japan, Ghana, Cape Verde and all over the east coast and north west of Australia. He always returned to Australia for the Cairns Black Marlin season, working as a crewman for 10 seasons and as captain for 20. He is very experienced in a wide range of techniques, and holds a string of records for light and ultra light tackle Marlin fishing, including the one, two, and three kilogram men's Black Marlin records and the two kilogram Striped Marlin record. He has guided countless anglers to big game catches on the fly, including an incredible 101 kg Black Marlin on 10kg tippet! On heavy tackle, he has caught over a dozen granders, including one Black Marlin that weighed 1389lb. As well as this, he won the Billfish foundation award for top-tagging captain for pacific Black Marlin.
- Techniques
- Baiting and switching for blue marlin on the Gold Coast and dead baiting for the giant black marlin off of Cairns
Hey, I'm Captain Craig "Sparra" Denham
- Background
- Captain Craig "Sparra" Denham has been in the fishing charter industry for over 30 years, during which time he has explored numerous sportfishing hotspots, including Fiji, New Zealand, New Guinea, Hawaii, Japan, Ghana, Cape Verde and all over the east coast and north west of Australia. He always returned to Australia for the Cairns Black Marlin season, working as a crewman for 10 seasons and as captain for 20. He is very experienced in a wide range of techniques, and holds a string of records for light and ultra light tackle Marlin fishing, including the one, two, and three kilogram men's Black Marlin records and the two kilogram Striped Marlin record. He has guided countless anglers to big game catches on the fly, including an incredible 101 kg Black Marlin on 10kg tippet! On heavy tackle, he has caught over a dozen granders, including one Black Marlin that weighed 1389lb. As well as this, he won the Billfish foundation award for top-tagging captain for pacific Black Marlin.
- Techniques
- Baiting and switching for blue marlin on the Gold Coast and dead baiting for the giant black marlin off of Cairns
My Charter Listings
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$2,552
Fishing Reports
31 Tagged and Released Billfish for Janu
31 Marlin Tagged And Released So we have added up our tag cards from The Billfish Foundation and HotShot has had a pretty good start off to the New Year! When we reported last month at the beginning of… Read Full Report →
Red Hot Fishing on the Gold Coast
January 2019 has started off with a bang here on the Gold Coast of Australia! We have been flat out at HotShot Charters and have had red hot fishing both inshore and off shore. The bait schools are thick… Read Full Report →
June 2018 Blue and Striped Marlin
Weather has been a bit hit or miss lately but we were able to catch a great window opportunity to take out young Riley and his dad Doug from Gladstone. We had a great day going 2-3 on blue… Read Full Report →
February Fishing Report for HOTSHOT Char
February was a great month for lots of juvenile black marlin, mahi-mahi and Wahoo!!! The weather Gods as well as the fishing Gods were good to us. We had great currents and heaps of bait inshore allowing us some… Read Full Report →
Dolphin bite on the Gold Coast
Hotshot was happy to have a great couple from Brazil join us today. Lots of action with the Dolphin fish today, going 2-4 and we also jumped a little black off. Read Full Report →
Amazing black marlin caught after 2 hrs
Great day out with some fantastic people celebrating Leigh's 40th birthday with us! Went out wide to look for some blue marlin only to have the water go off after a few hours. We ended up heading back in… Read Full Report →
Hotshot Charters Marlin Report
February had some fantastic weather on the Gold Coast. This allowed us ample opportunity to fish the in shore waters for black marlin using live bait, trolling lures and baiting/switching. Taking full advantage of conditions we also were able… Read Full Report →
Hotshot Charters latest catch
What a fantastic day out fishing with our new friends from Costa Rica. We started the day out a bit slow but thankfully because as the day went on so did the action! We started with a beautiful feisty… Read Full Report →
