I was up that morning at 2am watching a ferocious lightning display just a few miles off the coast and the storm was moving in the exact location of where we were going to be fishing.
We left the dock at 4:45am and we traveled directly toward the same storm that I watched some 3 hours earlier, which had moved farther offshore. Literally, we traveled straight toward the lightning which was about 40 (?) miles in front of us. After about 2 hours of cruising, we throttled back when we were just about 3-4 miles from the rain. We were in the Gulf Stream waters. This is how close we were to the storm.
We were on board The Run Off with Capt. Brian Harrington and the 1st mate was "wahoonbox" from www.sportfishermen.com fame...
It was rough water going out, I would say maybe 10-12 foot swells. The 1st mate said that it was the calmest that they had seen in a month. For us, it was pretty rough! As the day went on, the waves subsided very nicely. At the end of the day, there were maybe 3-4 ft. waves.
We fished for 1/2 a day and caught some meat fish (Mahi Mahi), and then there was something important coming in over the radio. I knew it was important as the ships 1st mate stopped to listen. After a brief verbal exchange between the crew, wahoonbox spoke, "there is some world class blue marlin fishing occurring close by. Do you (we) want to go to it?". We said yes.
This world class marlin fishing action was just over 2 miles away. We switched gear and lures. I mean the lures went from 12 inches long to about 20-22 inches long and the hooks were about 2-3 inches in width. Heck, we caught two big mahi's as we were trolling to the marlin hole. We caught, well, I mean that actually Jay caught, a blue marlin. We actually hooked a second marlin, but it threw the hook out of its mouth as it jumped about 4-5' out of the water. We sacrificed the chance of catching some additional meat fish for the chance at some sport fishing. It was the equivalent to going for the big buck.
Guess where this marlin fishing was occurring? It was on the offshore side of "The Big Rock", as in the Big Rock fishing tournament fame. This was the location of where Jay hooked and caught his Blue Marlin.
I put the pictures of the Blue Marlin in its separate photo album. I "grabbed" these photos from a video shoot. In case you are wondering, the marlin flag flying on the boat is flown upside down to indicate that the fish was released.
To view the pictures as a slideshow, click on the slideshow link on the first picture in a photo album. It saves some navigation (clicking). See this picture for the slideshow link location.
Posted by Craig on Monday, June 01, 2009 (15:20:33) (886 reads)
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