Fantastic week out of Oregon Inlet!!!

[offshore]

It sure was a great week at the Outerbanks!! I have quite a few photos and about four hours of video. We have some great stories from last week. I thought I would start by sharing some Pictures of the Blue Marlin we caught this past week. We really thought we had a Bigeye on for the first 30 minutes of the fight but then he exploded with a series of jumps grey hounding off the port side of the boat. After we saw him jump the fight took on a little more of a serious but fun battle. This is the first Blue marlin I have caught and was thrilled to catch it on my own boat. It was also nice to catch and release him with two friends that I have fished with over the years. Enjoy the pics. The next series will be of a sail we caught the next day!!!…….Mark

About half way trough the fight when we realized we had a blue on.


Fighting him on stand up was great and Josh was in the pit keeping an eye on things while Mike was at the helm.


This was the first leader touch after about 50minutes. The only problem he had other plans and it was off to the races for about the third blistering run!!


He stayed deep for all but one jumping sequence.


Starting to put the pressure on when he was deep.




Finally after an hour and about 20 minutes we were able to bring him along side and Josh did a great job of billing.








We revived her and sent her on her way.








Once again thanks to Josh and Mike for doing such a great job!!

[Squidnation]

beautiful shots - congrats on a nice first!!!!!!!1

[Nauti Natured]

WOW!!!!! What a beautiful fish! Who says you cant win Marlin tournaments of center consoles She looked pretty fat... what would you say for weight? 300's? What was the lure?

[offshore]

Carolina Gentleman Grander BL Head BL/WH was the lure we cauhgt it on. I was estimating the weight at between 200-300lbs....Mark

[slip slidin]

Fantastic pics and report Offshore. Congratulations on the blue one. Thanks for the report. Look forward to the video.

[offshore]

Fantastic pics and report Offshore. Congratulations on the blue one. Thanks for the report. Look forward to the video.

Thanks I have a ton of photos to go through and a lot of video to edit so I thought I would start with a few photos. Just trying to regroup and will be vacuum sealing a bunch of tuna and dolphin tonight!!! Mark

[FINRAZOR RODS]

Nice work guys! I bet there was a lotta high fives on that boat.

[whowantstoknow]

Beautiful work....i always like those nice surprises!! ecspecially when they come busting out of the water all lit up!

pretty work and great shots!

[knot for shore]

real nice thread bro. great pics too!! keep them coming.

[stockweiser]

Thanks for the report and pics. We plan on fishing OI next week and only hope for the blue man