612 lb Kona Blue from a Jet Ski

[Satans_Chariot]

Shit, they aren't gonna catch themselves rite?

[tom@marlinstar]

Shit, they aren't gonna catch themselves rite?

That's right....what did they say when Carey Hart tried the first backflip on a dirtbike???????

Then you had Travis Pastrana bust a double backflip....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VngJrAIzFNE

[richmake]

Unbelievable.... and that run's right behind and very fucking close to BADASS...in the dictionary...

[Captain Fred Archer]

Unreal! That's one for those with the utmost in many things that I do not have. I'd have been running across the top of the water if someone even tried to get me into a jetski with a 130 and a marlin lure! Of course, I'm an old fart now and the same thing applies to those little trick bikes. It sure was a well written story. Had me on the edge of my seat more than once and I had to remind myself that the guy made it because he was writing the story.

Hats off to Tim and Cappy Gene Van and the others who came out to help.

Now, for an observation and a question. I has to do with the bite, or more correctly, what looks like many bites. Has anyone else noticed that they look like they came from a much smaller critter than a big tiger? I have seen those things attack the big blacks that we hauled out to dump just off the reef down in Aussie Land and have seen the results of those attacks on hooked fish that got attacked and that we got away from the tigers.

The bites, or what sure as hell look like them on that fish do not look even remotely close to what I have seen big tigers do to a big marlin. The edges of the wounds appear to be nice and circular with none of the jagged rips I've seen tigers make around a bite. Plus, they look very small. If those circular "bites" I am looking at came from a tiger, it was a very small one...a way small one, in fact.

And they look more like "scoops" than they do bites to me. Just like a giant ice cream scoop would make. Or the beak of a giant squid or more likely, a pack of them. I have also seen a marlin that got done in by one giant squid and danged if the "bites" didn't look just like what I am seeing on and in that marlin, only even bigger "scoops".

I dunno. Maybe I'm nuts and seeing things. But, man, that sure looks like the kind of damage that the big squids inflict. I'm also surprised (and relieved) that a tiger didn't follow his victim up to the jet ski. They are usually very relentless and don't give up a kill easily. Every one that I have ever seen that had bitten a marlin was a scary mother once you got his dinner up to the boat.

Giant squids? Down deep is where they are in the daytime and unlike the tigers, they shun daylight most of the time. Night is a different story. And the giants are no myth. Not by a long shot. Just ask Whyknot from down under about the one that ate a marlin on the angler and crew of Ultimate Challenge (or Ultimate "something") and ask them about the bite marks on what was left of a big striped marlin.

So anyway, I don't know and am not saying that I do, but I wonder? Whatchathink?

[wide open]

wow, my man looked tired in some of those pics! i bet that was just an unreal fight. satans chariot said it the best. this is certainly something for a select few to even attempt.

[Capt Josh]

That's my kind of madness right there...

Hat's off to ya Greg!

Not sure how you say "Lunatic" in Hawaiian, but "jet ski marlin a wanna nutbar" must be close!

Keep on rockin amigo, watch yer toes though!

[makomyday]

Nice Grateful Dead decal on the jet ski . Dead heads never die they just catch big fish .

[Duke Blue Blood]

I don't know why he had to call for help, when he must have had two HUGE floatation devices in his scrotum!

Nice catch!

DBB

[RobB]

that story is insane !!

[Ravens16]

Crazy