Black marlin

[JDP]

Took my youngest daughter and her boyfriend out for a marlin session after they had finished their morning fish on the beach catching salmon today. 
 

The water temp was too hot for our normal target species of striped marlin but was good for both blacks and blue marlin. Striped tuna were in good numbers, a favourite of most marlin to eat, even though most were in the 6-8kg size. It was so much fun catching these tuna on 10lb spin gear we almost forgot about chasing marlin.

Set up a teaser and dropped two live baits out the back at the slowest speed the boat will troll at. Literally under one minute and we were hooked into an estimated 200lb lively black marlin. This fish was extremely stubborn and had the young fella soon loosing a few beads of sweat!!!!! The fight went on for around 1.30 mins before we had it traced alongside the boat and released. 
 

Most likely fish inshore around the headlands tomorrow if the weather gods allow targeting a few hammerheads etc.

 

 

[Josh]

Nice work !