Late report - sorry.
Fished GTH area in the morning. Other than a pair of gaffer dolphin, the bite was slow. Worked our way South in the early afternoon, picking up another 2.
Just before 1pm, Blue #1 hooks-up Kamakazi style on a hard-bait, left long. Angler Troy P. rises to the situation: 70 on stand-up. The fish attempts lift-off to the South. After re-gaining good line, fish goes deep and hangs there, sulking. We go slow forward, planing the fish just enough to get an angle to reel on. 25 minutes later, release is made. Fish’s bill is leader-wrapped, the hook perfectly hitched into the leader…hookless catch!
~17 minutes later, [Bigger] Marlin #2 pops up under the right flat lure, fades to the right teaser and starts beating it out of the water. Once it’s finally jerked away, he fades into the right short, eats and after a short run on a 50, hook pulls. D’amn.
Reset the spread at ~2pm and talk about running in shallow to look for a wahoo on the ledge. Just then, from the left, marlin #3 slams into another lure on a 50 in the left short. Angler Art B. hops into gear, fish grey-hounding off to the right and then back left, spool goes down past the backing, down to 1/4 spool. Lines in and easy reverse till fish is vertical. Slowly, the angle changes enough to keep getting line back. Got leader once, then fish makes a second small run down. Now we just want our plug back. Fish comes back up near the left corner, we grab leader second time. Fish turns a 180 back towards the S/east, and the hook pulls, 2:40pm. Fish #2 @ ~150lb.
Busy 1:40.
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