Marlin Sickness (9/13)

[Latimeria]

Rough week at home and work, so I was planning on taking Friday off to recoup.  Got a call from Spencer wanting to head offshore and offered to pay for gas and ice.  Well hell, I called Shaun and he was in.

I thought I've met Spencer before but realized I've known him 10+ years online, but never met in person.  I had some ideas about making a collaboration with his shop, so it would be a good time to catch up and maybe talk about some possibilities.

Surprisingly, there were few people down at the ramp.  The Thunder Boat races are going on, so I'm thinking that was keeping people away.  Spencer arrived and we headed to catch some mackerel for marlin bait.



Tough pick at Mackerel, but we finally got 2-3 dozen in the well.  About 5 miles out and we spot our first marlin, but it sunk out so we kept going to where we have been seeing the most life.

Water was still warm, but about 2 degrees cooler than last week.  Very few paddies and nowhere near the bait and molas that were on them either as like last week.

We would spot a Marlin and cruise up to it before it was nowhere to be seen.  We trolled and checked the gyros all day.



Spencer spotted one that stayed up and we went right by.  We had a bait already rigged and Spencer dropped it right in front of his face as we passed by.  Unfortunately, it was not hungry and never took the bait.  That was our best opportunity this morning.



We found some awesome paddies that were void of life.... except for a really small amount of bait

We trolled areas we were watching marlin jump around apparently for fun.

All in all we saw 8 marlin close to the boat, but only had one real opportunity to bait one.  We also saw a 4-5 foot mako doing summersaults next to the boat, but it didn't want anything either.

Well damn.  We didn't catch anything, but it was great finally meeting Spencer and catching up.  I now realize what a juggernaut he created with Terrafirma and I don't even know where to start with PSoul.  lol

In any case, it's amazing these marlin have been in the same spot for 3 weeks now.  I'm almost over the marlin fishing, but feel like I want one more to call it the season...  hahaha

[Pinoyfisher]

Spencer has built quite the brand! He's put in the time for sure traveling all over the world for stuff very few target or knew was worth targeting. I'm super impressed with that!

[jrodda]

Well, sounds like marlin fishing. You've been seeing some pretty remarkable numbers of them, though. I'm surprised you've been getting more than a couple shots each outing, let alone 7-10 it seems. Cool that you finally met Spencer in person.