Started at the Hole yesterday at 6am and picked up 4 dolphin in the next half hour. Decided to head offshore to find some warmer water and current. After ten miles of nothing we were starting to regret our decision. Spotted a weedline around 11:30am about a mile from bubble rock and the game was on. 14 gaffers later we were pretty content with the day.
I turned around to clear weeds from the outrigger line and saw a stick shoot up behind the flat time. Dropped back and pushed the drag forward, Marlin ON. After about a dozen hard head shakes he took off but with no acrobatics. The fish stayed down the majority of fight until the last half hour. Very cool fish. We used to tangle with them regularly on our ocean yatch but this is the first for the contender.
Put the lines back out, picked up three more dolphin on the next pass and called it a day. Great day with great friends and my father.
Of note, the angler for the blue had never fished a single day in his life. Lucky man.
Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.
Definitely a different game with outboards. It’s tough backing down with spinning machetes between you and the fish. I think we did 9 miles of loop-de-loops.
Something else that was pretty interesting about that fish; she would peel off two hundred yards of line and then immediately return to a specific patch of weeds on the weedline we hooked her on. She probably did that five different times. We released her on the same weedline we hooked her.
Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.
Definitely a different game with outboards. It’s tough backing down with spinning machetes between you and the fish. I think we did 9 miles of loop-de-loops.
Something else that was pretty interesting about that fish; she would peel off two hundred yards of line and then immediately return to a specific patch of weeds on the weedline we hooked her on. She probably did that five different times. We released her on the same weedline we hooked her.
Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.
More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927
31’ Contender
Twin 250 HPDIs
and that outboards don't attract the same amount of bills as inboard diesels
“I’d hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.”
Hunter S. Thompson
