Left dock late around 6:00 am. Little more bumpy ride than expected. Started trolling Little before 9. Nothing the first hour then the short rigger starts screaming & takes a lot of line off the reel. After about 20 minutes gathering line back fish was staying WAY deep & takes a huge run of at least 300 yards & shows his self. NICE size blue marlin. Got him back to the boat & wind on on the reel almost a dozen times. Wanted to grab his bill for some pics due to not having a camera man. (There was only 3 of us. One driver, one reeler, one leader man). Finally after playing ring around the rosey for 45 minutes decided to grab the lure leader & see what happened. ( only a 5 foot 100lb mono leader) she finally broke at the hook. Total fight time was a hour and a half on a 50 wide. Picked up 6 more dolphin Could have had about 5 more we needed one more guy
nice report. I hear ya. That 4th guy is major when they’re bit’n