Hola Anglers,
A few days ago I got word that there was a great marlin bite just short of the known 30-30 mark.
Great Captains like Capt Kiwi saw as many as 6 big blues, while releasing 2. And our Captain Hurcules went 1 for 2 on blues, and he indicated that the first one was over 400lbs.
Figures....it was my one day off.
Two days later 10-29-2014, I headed out with a local group. Very nice day, 15 second swells, flat calm, BLUE BLUE water. We tried inshore fishing, caught a couple nice bull dorado, and then decided to run off shore where the fellas left off some days earlier. We were 15 mins into troll when a nice blue lite up my center teaser (we run a flat teaser off the rigger, and two longer daisy chains off the rigger that I control from the bridge and the mates have a center teaser with a boat rod). We pitched the mackerel out, she grabbed it, dropped it and that was it. Good size fish, around 300 lbs.
We kept working the area when I caught in the corner of my eyes, a series of giant splashes a couple miles further off shore. I made the line to where I thought the last splash was and that's when it happened. My short flat teaser got crushed by something massive. The angler who had a sailfish bait on the flat clip couldn't avoid the bite (we wanted to use a 50 lb pitch bait Mack), and he was tight in a matter of seconds. 2.5hrs later!!! We released a BIG Blue over 400lbs on 20lb test! That's right, very hard to do. As we trolled in we raised a triple sailfish tease and released one sail. We decided to call it a day. Very exciting. We were strictly targeting the marlin. Sailfish seem to be in a different area further off shore. But when you hear a great marlin bite you drop everything and GO!!!!!!!!
Sailfish:7-3-1
Marlin: 3-2-1
Dorado: 3-2-2
Tight Lines,
Capt Chris Starrs
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