June 6 blue marlin

[Morning Wood Sportfishing]

Had a fun trip today. Had just four customers in from Ohio, two guys and their wives, and they just wanted action. We made bait early in the morning and headed offshore. En route to our first stop for tuna, we passed the killer river rip, but kept on truckin towards the tuna grounds. Luckily, that was only a few miles further south. We tried for tuna for a few minutes before we convinced our customers that trolling the rip would be worth it today. After some easy convincing, we headed back north towards the rip and put baits out. Killer green on blue line with tons of grass spelled out a potentially epic day. We slowly started putting some solid gaffer mahi in the box when our short flat went off. Woody dropped back to the fish but before he could eat it, he was all over my rigger bait. Hooked up! Gave us a great show while we were clearing baits. Not 30 minutes later had a perfect sized rat blue for our customers, who had never caught a marlin before. After some quick pics and a short revival, the blue was swimming strong on his own again and made for a great release. Here are a few pics. Video to follow in a few days.

[CaptAnthony]

Nice job and congrats. Yea, the river is making a dead zone alright...and the dead zone equals completly out of this world fishing?? You guys will just show them how wrong they are...

Im waiting on word, might be there tomorrow-sat will definitely swing by venice marina.

Later!

[Capt Josh]

Awwwww...that weather sure sucks!!!! Nice job on the blue dog boys!