JDP Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 After a few hours sleep from the hectic beach session it was back at the boat ramp at 6am for another day offshore with the young fellas chasing marlin. They had been a pit unhappy we were have fun out there while they were at school through the week. Normally we travel around 20k offshore to the start of the continental shelf to target marlin but this black marlin almost jumped into the boat as we left the harbour. We didn't stop to have a fish as we seldom hook a fish we've seen free jumping. There were a few boats out wide with a weekend comp on, so we headed away from them in search of mackerel or small tuna to use as bait. When you find bait it will often have marlin on it. This is mackerel virtually the same as the UK variety. After catching a couple of strings of them for the live bait tank we setup some live bait trolling outfits and started the search. Wasn't long before we found bait with a fair amount of marlin showing on the sounder and suddenly we were hooked into three marlin. Another boat soon moved in and they got a double hookup. Fighting three fish was crazy and had the youngsters pumped with excitement. Luckily two pulled the hooks and we were able to concentrate on handling just one. Two of the boys (brothers aged 13-15) worked together, with the youngest lining his elder brothers fish when he was able to get hold of the leader. Soon after the elder brother had the same opportunity to leader his younger brothers fish, which was his first time doing it. Funny enough the youngest lad has caught many game fish and also works for my daughter most weekends on the charter boat she skippers. More to follow as my picture size won't allow more. Geoff, Saintly Fish and Josh 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDP Posted March 12, 2023 Author Share Posted March 12, 2023 Part two. More bait schools were found and more marlin. The young fella got to skipper the boat while I took a few pics of jumping fish, he did a great job even at the close stage work where fish can often be lost under the boat. Plenty of other boat porn all around us with everything from 17ft boats to 50ft boats hooked into marlin. Saintly Fish 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDP Posted March 12, 2023 Author Share Posted March 12, 2023 Part three. Just fishy pics from the seven we caught for the day. Saintly Fish and Geoff 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JDP Posted March 12, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 12, 2023 (edited) Just a few more. Should be back out there in a couple of days. Edited March 12, 2023 by JDP daio web, Saintly Fish, Geoff and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDP Posted March 12, 2023 Author Share Posted March 12, 2023 Bait and marlin. daio web and Dicky 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 3 hours ago, JDP said: Bait and marlin. Bait and marlin? Looks more like the image of a balding guy taking a picture of an LGBGTQ+ graph! Lovely fish btw 👍🏻 JDP 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 Looks insane loved to get out there well done JDP 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDP Posted March 12, 2023 Author Share Posted March 12, 2023 5 hours ago, Saintly Fish said: Bait and marlin? Looks more like the image of a balding guy taking a picture of an LGBGTQ+ graph! Lovely fish btw 👍🏻 Thats because its a simrad piece of junk, far better images from the bold guy on my own boat using Garmin. In saying that I smashed another screen on the 8410 on my last trip in my own boat!!!!....as far as LBGTYQ, Im neutral. Saintly Fish 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 23 minutes ago, JDP said: Im neutral. Gender? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDP Posted March 13, 2023 Author Share Posted March 13, 2023 3 hours ago, Saintly Fish said: Gender? No not really as some days I consider myself as a tree. Andy135 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted March 13, 2023 Share Posted March 13, 2023 6 hours ago, JDP said: No not really as some days I consider myself as a tree. That's good to sea, yore very down wiv da kidz! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted March 15, 2023 Share Posted March 15, 2023 Quality fishing Jon. Well done. Great pics as always as well. 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDP Posted March 15, 2023 Author Share Posted March 15, 2023 9 hours ago, Andy135 said: Quality fishing Jon. Well done. Great pics as always as well. 👍 Cheers Andy, had another cracking day on them yesterday, two pretty stubborn black marlin. Also followed by another beach session, now needing a rest fro it all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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