Wanted to share this with my Edisto friends. Wife and I fishing Mixed Bag II out of St. Thomas Virgin Islands caught and released this Blue Marlin. We hooked two for the day and went 1 for 2.
Link to the youtube video here:
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Nice fish Tony!
I HAVE SPENT MOST OF MY LIFE FISHING AND WASTED THE REST OF IT!
Awesome video! I bet that was a blast.
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25 Yamaha 2 stroke
Link to new enhanced video above and I’m posting some pics below the content.
Ok Gang, Now that I’ve pulled together some more video and pics of our first marlin, I thought I would share our story with everyone.
First of all this is our first marlin and something my wife had on her bucket list as the top one or two things she wanted to do in her life. The fish has been estimated at 13 feet long and 800 lbs. We caught this sow, on the North Drop off of St. Thomas, VI on Friday, Sept. 5, 2011 and were fishing out of Red Hook Marina, which is a neat little fishing village if you ever visit there.
Here is where the story gets wild. We were visiting due to one of my best friends’ wedding on Sunday. My wife and I went a couple of days early because next month, we are celebrating our 15th Anniversary and we wanted to do some scuba diving together and target our first Blue Marlin while we were there.
We got to St. Thomas on Tuesday and the rest of the wedding party came in on Thursday. Not thinking I could afford to book a charter on my own, we begged many members of the wedding party to help us defray the cost and go out with us on Friday morning. No takers, Thank God and our lucky stars. We were originally booked for Saturday on another boat with people we didn’t know. After talking with some people at Red Hook Marina in St. Thomas we started calling and booked a charter on a smaller boat that was less expensive, $800 for a six hour trip. Every charter told us we needed to book a 10 hour trip to target blue marlin and at a minimum 8 hours because it was an hour ride out and an hour ride back.
We booked the 6 hour trip anyway and were going to try our luck. We had two knock downs early in the day and the captain thought they were Blue Marlin due to the bite in the bait. My wife was up first, and we had another knock down. She reeled in pretty quickly and it was a small barracuda. At least we weren’t going to get skunked. I’m up next, and shortly thereafter, another knockdown, this
Awesome -
You may want to check the internet - there are good sites that will do a replica for you (cheaper)
EWC
You gotta love the South Carolina Lowcountry.
EWC
I’ve searched briefly but would like some recommendations of reputable sources if anyone has any. My captain has already emailed us and is working on some other sources to quote us. The replica’s that Gray quoted are under 2k but clost to 1k for shipping. If I were to purchase from them, I’d just rent a uhaul or something and drive 10 hours and back to save a little cash.
I do want to window shop but want to be careful not to go with the lowest price and end up getting what I pay for. If anyone has recommendations or friends who’ve purchased, I would like to hear from them.
Thanks
That is one hell of a good story Bay Creek…big congrats.
Btw, how bout those back to back national championship Yardcocks?!
fightin cock
I don’t know which is better catching that fish or watching the cardiac cocks pull those extra inning thrillers against UVA and UF. My wife might read this post, so I better go with catching that fish.
Anyway Go Cocks and and send those JawJaw puppies back to the doghouse.