Hey every1,
Just a quick briefing of the best fishing day of my life yet. had a bottom bash at Browns and with conditions becoming pretty hard to fish the bottom we decided to pull the pin and go for a troll, headed S/E of Browns and within 30min saw a big Marlin tail swim in front of the boat than it went out of sight. We did a sharp turn on the boat, within a couple of minutes the JB Evil Dingo on the shot gun got smashed on 37kg. My 66yr old father jumped on the rod and once settled into the fight, everyone got thinking about how big this fish was gonna be we knew it was big but not that bloody big . After fighting her for 4.5hrs we had it boat side by this time she was pretty much dead. Dad did a top effort fighting the fish on 300lb which, was about 5min away from giving way. Like to thank Ivan from Ambition on travelling 6nm back out to sea in darkness and stormy conditions to kindly cart the fish back to SGFC as towing her boat side of a 7m predator doing 4knt 18nm off shore at 6pm. Also like to thank my crew member Frank who did an awesome job tracing the fish.
We have sent the Marlin down to Fred Marlin Moulds at Callala and after speaking to him today as I was curious to see what was inside her stomach and he told me she had a 11kg yellowfin or stripy couldn’t tell the difference.