after 1 hr or so of trolling a sail hit the planer line and set the hook just in the middle of the jaw, go the fish to the boat and took some pics, funny looking sail, almost like a 1/2 marlin 1/2 sail, I think the sail was injured when the fish was a juvenile or something like that
continue trolling and a second sail jump and nailed the short rigger, after few seconds of excitment, the fish got off the hook
all this happen in 1.5 hrs of trolling !!
had one leader cut clean just above the hook on the naked ballyhoo, hit the line so hard, it pop the leader and cut trough the line on the short rigger
found really nice weedline at 275’ trolled both sides and saw a lot of bait jumping around, but all we had was 3 short strikes
great day and great way to close my trolling season, just like last year, last trip of the year brougth the only sail of the season
boat went back to storage, full fuel tank and two bottles of stabil
ran back to the hill at 45 mph, ocean was the best I have seen it since I fish out of charleston
I would like to think it was, but… I still think is a sailfish with a deformity/scar on the sail area, seems to me that was injured when it was a baby or something
this is another pic, (which the PETA fanatics will love to see)
fish was the first for the fellow next to me, so we had to take the close up as well, fish was release and swim perfectly after release
Don't be h8tin... You said you were putting the boat up on ice when there is some good bottom fishing to be done...that's all I meant... congrats on the fish btw...
My vote: Not a spearfish… maybe a new species? It wasn’t that long ago they discovered these new species: “roundscale spearfish” http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20070303/food.asp. Maybe you released a new “fernando marlin”.
