Marlin on the Brain (8/18)

[Latimeria]

This is a real pain losing a few weeks of posts because it took a few weeks to migrate over to the new revision.

Anyway, I'll keep it brief in order to catch up a bit.

Decided after seeing the bullet tuna and warm 75 degree water, there were marlin around.  My buddy and I decided to target them specifically since neither of us have ever targeted local marlin before (maybe marlin in general).

We found hot clean water and it wasn't long before we started spotting Marlin!  We ran up to some and threw bait on them, but couldn't get any to go.  We boxed the area in trolling big marlin lures just waiting for a strike.

We stopped and fished a few paddies, but they were loaded with bait, blue perch and a bunch of mola getting cleaned by said blue perch.



There was a stupid amount of small bait out there.



We wound up missing 4 marlin within 50' of the boat, and then I had one take it's bill and slash the marlin lure!  It made the clicker scream for a minute and was really cool to watch, but after we dropped a mack back, there was nothing around that wanted to play.  Ugh... another heartbreaker.





Towards the end of our trip, we saw a HUGE marlin!  Maybe close to 300#!  Not sure if it was a blue or a big striped, but it was MUCH bigger than the previous ones we've seen so guessed it was a blue.

What a crazy cool creature in the wild, but alas, another one that didn't want to bite.  Hell, more lost another one since I don't know the tricks to get a marlin to bite if it's being finicky.

We searched with the gyros and saw bait, birds, mammals, and marlin.  No tuna.... Ugh



Sorry to keep it brief, but nothing really happened except having 5 or 6 marlin next to the boat and even raising them in the spread only to have nothing to show for it.

Oh well....  My next 3 trips are almost similar....  lol

[KogaHead]

You need some Coggins lures.

[vdisney]

I have faith Tom, it'll happen