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 Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 4:54 pm Post subject: Port A offshore on NYATI 6/18/05 -Marlin |
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YT, Troy and a good crew headed offshore early Saturday. After hitting one spot without any knockdowns, we moved further offshore. After we put out a nice spread, Dr. Rob Williams caught a nice (15-18#) blackfin, the first we had seen trolling since April. About an hour later, Christian got another blackfin about 15#. Trevor then picked up a 20-25# wahoo (number 64 for the boat this year).
About 3:30, one of the 50's next to me started screaming, and we looked up to see a marlin going ballistic. I grabbed the rod and settled in for a nice 40 minute standup fight. After the initial jumps, the fish stayed down. Troy was the first to note that the fish was acting funny and was probably tailwrapped. Sure enough, we got him to the boat and he was wrapped up in the wind-on leader.
After removing the hook, we got a rough measurement of 113". Since he had been hogtied by the leader, we then carefully revived him before release. We picked up one more blackfin before calling it an epic day.
Pics should be up soon on the bbluewater board . (http://2coolfishing.com/ttmbforum/showthread.php?p=197779#post197779).
As always, thanks YT and Troy for another great day on the NYATI.
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