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Sunday 7/9 Wilmington -- 300#+ Blue Marlin Release
First off a BIG F freaking YOU goes out to the weatherman, he really blew it this weekend. Kept many boats at the dock Saturday and Sunday up here. Luckily both days we stuck our nose out and followed it all the way to the Canyons!
Saturday fished on the Island Lure out of the Canyon Club. Left at 4:30AM lines in by 7. The 38' Out Island is a pocket rocket and eats up 2-4's. Fished the Baltimore and worked the piss out of some nice water and pulled small 15#YFT and put one 35# and one 45# in the box for some meat. Lots of bait down deep but no big boys or bills came up to play. Pulled the lines at 4 and headed to the barn. After some scrubbing and cleaning of the boat and not myself yet headed up to OC NJ in hopes the weatherman was wrong again.
Got up to OC at 9ish and rigged up a few dozen for the next day. Nighty Night at midnight with a box full of nakeds and the battlewagon is iced with 250#s and ready to go.
Ahh, wake up at 3 after a great nap and the crew starts rolling in. The OH WELL is ready to go a 38 Henriques. We're fishing a little club tourney challenge and only one of two boats fishing it for the day. We only need a few decent fish and put some points on the board and we win the tourney. Capt Frank rolls down the dock with his coffee, 240 shows up with a nice lunch spread and a cheesesteak stromboli for breakfast. Paulie two times is pacing as usual with his A.D.D. and winged sunglasses and he's ready to go. Jimmy the self proclaimed Kid is on board too and off we go. Break the inlet only to find a lake in front of us at 4AM. 26kts from the get go and we roll with another big F you to the weatherman! Lines in the water inside the wilmington and three hours later no fish yet and we didn't find that 74 degree water life or break yet. So we pick up run a little south, fish a while, nada, pick em up run a little east, fish, nada, pick em up run a little further...with no help and not many guys on the water, except our boys from the Fighting Angel out of Cape May who were a little further north, we make the call which made the day for us. We put a call into Hinch Marina in Cape May to Mary and Chuck on the sat phone who we owe big time. TWO THUMBS UP TO MARY AND CHUCK !! All the shots we had were clouds before we left, luckily the first morning shot was a good one. They tell us where the water is that we were looking for and off we go four miles to the North. Bingo 74 degree water and blue...its on now boys! Drop the lines a spread of meat and spreader bar or two with a WWWWWFB 18 monster squid spreader bar in the back hoping for an eyeball. Teasers go in and we're set. 5 minutes later we got boils everywhere and some MEATNDABOX. Throw a few 35# tuna in, lines back out. Boils again on everything 4 lines hooked up, 4 guys in the cockpit, 4 for 4 on 3 YFT 30# and one 50# tuna caught by the kid...who of course had to brag about how he caught the biggest fish...a fun time. Go by a few pots and pick up dolphin. Had fun all afternoon looking for the pods of breaking tuna, whales and porpoises...find them troll over to them and around em and away the lines went 9 rods out all of them getting smacked and eaten. Tuna hanging on the squid teasers and spinning on them, even had tuna rip squid off the teaser and take the outside squids off the spreader bar which we later found in one of their stomachs. Fun times!! .........drum roll.....its getting late but its too fun to leave...everyone is setting the lines back out and 'click' and Paulie two times picks up the left long on a 50 thats got a black and purple hatteras doorknob with a horse bally and immediately says.... I didn't see anything on this one as the line is screaming off....BIG EYE?? BIG YELLER ??...line goes tight and 100yds behind the boat comes mr blue suit halfway out of the water shaking his head...marlin marlin marlin
....he sounds and we set the big polock up in a harness, clear the cockpit and lines and its game on stand up style...no chair, he's 6'2 luckily he grabbed the rod and not one of us chunky little bastards
. Unfortunately the tourney was over and we called in to say don't wait for us to weigh in, we were having too much fun picking at the meat and it was a beautiful day. About an hour later after some great driving by Big Frank and hard fighting by the big POLE we got a 12 foot blue marlin at the side of the boat getting ready for the release. He finally gave up and we planed him up on the side of the boat for some great pictures and a clean release even taking his lip jewelry out. I was almost tempted to jump in with him and take a shot swimming along with him but he was big. The crew of the Fightin Angel came in and fished the water with us and luckily they have an expert cameraman on board who circled us the whole time taking shots and I cant wait to see Big Jimmy Gatos photos. We got some great shots from the tower but couldn't get a girth measurement, he had some fat shoulders we're thinkin 3-350. Awesome to see this thing come back to life and get its color, like someone flipped a switch on and he lit back up with light blue, purple and some other colors i never saw before that close.....after he slapped his big tail a few times we watched him swim back into the deep. Made my day billing this thing and have him looking at me with his big eye ...no way to explain that to guys that never fished before. Good stuff!! First Blue Marlin for the boat, first Blue marlin in OC this year and Paulie two times gets thrown in the drink when get back at the dock at 8 oclock after another great day on the OH WELL!! We'll get some pics up here as soon as we get them off the cameras. F U Weatherman!!
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I spoke to A.D.D. boy this morning and he sounded like a kid in a candy store.
