Nice Blue Marlin on the Sportin' Life (6/16/18)

Friends of mine fishing out of Toler’s Cove Marina on the Sportin’ Life caught this nice blue marlin the other day. Conservative estimate at over 400lbs. Found a nice video of the fish and wanted to share it on here. Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFH35H8ZGKs

Great footage!

Awesome video…whoever was on the controls was not too shabby either.

Awesome fish and footage! Question… In the video I noticed the amount of water over the deck when the Captain was backing down. Is that amount of water normal for a big sporty? Looked like the boat cleared all that water in no time.

Capt. R. Killin
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did it break off or pop

Love the video and nice fish!

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Yea the captain of that boat is arguably the best captian from SC, he was in this past issue of Marlin Magazine… As for the boat, it’s 61 garlington arguably one of the best boats ever built. Yes water in the cockpit is normal, escpecially when a good size BM is on the small pole.

Opinions are like wrecked-ums…everybodys got one…

https://www.thehulltruth.com/sportfishing-charters-forum/326629-backing-down-taking-too-far.html

Personally, it depends on being in a tournament and no other choice.

Definetly wakes up the cockpit better than Skinny showing the love.

My new signature:

The Enter-net fisherman

Captain yells at him to open the tuna door- this is normal when backing down.

quote:
Originally posted by mdaddy

Opinions are like wrecked-ums…everybodys got one…

https://www.thehulltruth.com/sportfishing-charters-forum/326629-backing-down-taking-too-far.html

Personally, it depends on being in a tournament and no other choice.

Definetly wakes up the cockpit better than Skinny showing the love.

My new signature:

The Enter-net fisherman


why you sonofab****

DawnFishing, was this caught on Saturday the 16th?
We were fishing a little tournament out of Edisto and saw a boat hooked up to a big blue marlin near us about 80 mi out

'07 198 DLX Carolina Skiff
DF90 Suzuki

quote:
Originally posted by striperskiff

DawnFishing, was this caught on Saturday the 16th?
We were fishing a little tournament out of Edisto and saw a boat hooked up to a big blue marlin near us about 80 mi out

'07 198 DLX Carolina Skiff
DF90 Suzuki


Dah…Nevermind… I just reread the subject line.

'07 198 DLX Carolina Skiff
DF90 Suzuki

“Open the door.”
“OPEN THE DOOR!”

That is a Captain that has been there before.
Great stuff.

“No… it’s okay, I know the way out…”