THE MAN IN THE BLUE SUIT!!!!!!

[Chumlord]

James (jmet), Eric (sawdust), Patrick (Midwest transplant) and I decided to venture out to the Norfolk Canyon to see what was happening after a week long blow. Left Rudee at 0445 and went directly to the 30 fthm. humps. Not much going on until I get a call from my buddy boat that they have been hooked up to a Marlin for about fifteen minutes. We decide to troll that direction to hopefully see their fish and we see the angler in the stbd. rear corner of the boat with the line straight down and all of a sudden he stands up and they lost the fish. We continue trolling east when the stbd. long pops but does not come tight so I jig it and feel the fish pick it up but once the fish felt tension it would drop it, I dropped the bait back and again it picked it up but dropped it when it felt tension. This scenario repeated at least 10 times before the fish lost interest and left us all puzzled. Started trolling west and when we were precisely on top of the northern 30 fthm. hump. I see the short shotgun rod bend and pop back up. I tell Eric to jig the rod and again the fish picks it up but drops it, drop back… picks it up and drops it, this time it repeats only four times before the fish loses interest but this time she gains interest on the stbd. long BIG TIME, she grabs it and TAKES OFF!!!!!!! James looks aft and screams MARLIN!!!! I look up to see her grey hounding from right to left four times coming completely out of the water each time. That image will be forever burned into my mind. The fish was out there a ways but still close enough to make a positive ID… and we are hooked up to a Blue Marlin. We clear every rod, get Patrick in the harness and start the fight. 35 min. later we have her along side, she got tail wrapped at the very end of the fight. It took about 30 min to revive her and we let her go to fight another day!!!! We believe the fish was between 8.5 and 10 feet long. AWESOME DAY to say the least!!!! Thank Eric, James and Patrick for making this happen!!!! Congrats to Patrick for the release citation!!!!

VIDEO LINK:
http://www.chumlordfishing.com/movies/Bluefinalweb.mov

[Yellow Dog]

Sounds like you were in the middle of a pretty hot billfish bite. I believe the others that didn't come tight were bills as well the way you describe the bites. Try feeding them the baits a little longer next time.

Awesome catch. Congratulations.

[hunt4fish]

Congrats on a damn fine catch,Damn cool pics and video.

[junior trade]

Nice catch, and great job not giving up on reviving the fish.

[SeaBiscuit]

Congratulations on catching, reviving and releasing a great fish!
Thanks for sharing.
SeaBiscuit

[Ravens16]

Man, that things beautiful!
Great pic's
Thanks

[trollman]

Great Job Boyz!

[clt_capt]

Purty Work Guys.

[POON MAN]

Nice team work and beauty of a blue

I can't play the vid link ?

[KEY-LIME-PIE]

Great Job guys! That was an awesome day!


Tom