Saturday the 2nd of may was not the prefect weather day but the fishing really made up for it. In the morning the winds were up to around 20 knots out of the south west. Not too bad for us because we are use to it here! We started off fishing down the gulfstream change catching a few Gaffer Dolphin and missing a wahoo bite. Then the tuna hit three lines and we ended up catching two of them . After a couple of circles we didn’t have any more tuna bites so we started back to the change Dolphin fishing. It was a good while before we started catching some dolphin again but a couple of nice schools came in and we ended up with a good catch. The last school of Dolphin hit all the lines and we ended up catching most of them but there were a few left. So I made a circle back down the grass line to try and find them again when a Blue Marlin grabbed my right teaser. I yelled at Joey “RIGHT TEASER!!!” and he grabs a pitch bait putting it in front of the marlin. The marlin didn’t want the little ballyhoo and continued to attack the teaser even when I pulled it out of the water!! So Joey grabs a bigger bait and put it in front of the fish. Still no response from the marlin. This went on for quite a while back and forth from right teaser to left teaser from bait to bait. Finally I told Joey I didn’t see the fish anymore. Then the left long rigger came down screaming off line. I FOUND HIM AGAIN JOEY!! Here we go off to the races. It wasn’t so bad fighting the fish going down sea in 3 to 5 foot but when we where backing down into the sea the party got a little wet. oops!!! Sorry about the bath guys. Crank FASTER. About 15 minutes into the fight we got the leader in a wall of white water coming over the stern. Congratulation’s on your release. I guess it was around 300 to 350lbs. A great bonus to the days fishing.
Thanks capt. Aaron