A Merry Marlin Fishing Report!

[merry marlin]

Have missed the good ole days where the fishing reports rolled out around here.... The family just gave me a new camera as I'll soon be getting a year older and so today was the try outs! Also we had one of Patrick's soccer buddies with us and it was a pleasure seeing how enthusiastic he was catching some new species.
The boys this spring and summer have worked the boat hard, not quite adapted for commercial fishing but they did alright putting aside some money for college.
Today the target was gags, we left at sunrise to find some pogies.



They were scattered and hard to catch. We needed them badly as we left with one small bag of frozen ones so things things were tense! Nothing worse than catching bait to get some foul language going! Finally a couple good shots and we could relax!!!!





We headed South, started shallow but only found shorts and untargetted species... Pedro got his right of passage on the MM with his first AJ and Almaco...





A lot less painful bringing a King....



We somehow hung up the anchor 3 times and by 12H30 we only had 2 keeper gags.... Anchor was somehow bent but we took the risk of going deeper as nothing was happening.

The next stop, things turned around and the game was on.

It didn't take long to finish this little popsical of pogies.... The gags were hungry!



Pedro again added a new specie to his list!



The boys were back to smiling. Not happy to take a picture as while it's happening you better keep on producing!!!




Only had to do a couple more spots to finish our bait and the fish came on board nicely...



It was time to head home in some seas the weatherman had not predicted but I did get to take my bean bag nap!
Jacky got one of my favorite reels for his birthday. Caught all my first offshore fish on that old classic and never got a failure. I've not been impressed to see the short life of some of the expensive reels they've had... Would like to see how this one holds out!



It was good to be back in the sound. Great having Pedro who figured things out pretty quickly. He has the bass, cats, bowfin and crappie dialed in on Jordan Lake I hope he'll have the saltwater thing going now....



Fun to post something again on SFC....
MM

[jaws]

Great report as always, thanks for sharing.

[clt_capt]

Another great report and nice pics - Thanks for sharing

[gottaflylee]

My day is made and I will sleep well tonight after reading this. Great to see the MM crew on a killing spree once again.

[Jer]

Ahhh... and I was missing the Merry Marlin reports! Perfect picture to feature on the front page also

[Ponce]

Great report Jacques, its good to see all the hard work paying off.

[Agitated88]

MM Crew back doing what they do best!!! Btw, I don't think I've ever read a MM fishing report...all of them have been CATCHING reports. Excelletn report...sweet pictures...thanks for sharing!!!

[Catcher's Mitt]

great report and pictures Jacques. looks like your persistence paid off for sure. I need to learn that fishing for college dollars thing.

[Robja]

Ag is right there are never any MM fishing reports. All I ever see are killing reports. Great work as always Jacques. All I got this weekend was a brown marlin to show for $400 dollars worth of fuel plus entry fees.

[Greeneyed Pickle]

Great report!! I've certainly missed seeing them.

Tim