moe Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Hi fish raiders, Wednesday the 15th. Left rose bay at 6:30 heading towards browns mountian. Started trolling at the shelf towards browns, picked up a striped tuna roughly 3KG. Arrived at browns at 8:30 am and started to cube for yellowfin. As we were cubing we were bottom bashing and picked up 2 nice sized blue eyes 11KG each and 3 Gen fish. at about 12 we caught an albacore. around about 3:00 pm decided to put the striped tuna under a baloon. we were still cubing, at about 5:30 the 24 went off slowly with the whole striped tuna as bait, my mate paul thought it was a shark the way it took the bait. so he gave it some line then set the hook. At the back of the boat something went flying out of the water and we realised it was a Marlin. about half an hour into the fight the yellowfin decided to turn up on our trail. while my mate paul was fighting the marlin i decided to feed the yellowfin and i wasn't allowed to put the line in. finally after a hard 45 minute fight we had the fish aside the boat. since we havn't got experience we failed to gaf it. but in the end we got it aboard. headed back for long journey home. Please help, is this a blue or striped marlin? since its my first marlin and estimated weight since we had no scale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtosea Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 (edited) Nice work looks like a Stripe of about 80kg thereabouts. Edited July 16, 2009 by xtosea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marlin01 Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Nice fish Moe, definite striped marlin approx75-85kgs. Sounds like a top day out and some great chewin to boot (blue eye, YUM)!! Why couldnt you gaff the fish? Anyway good on ya Cheers Marlin01 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hodgey Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Congratulations on your first marlin mate. Nerves, adrenalin, inexperience: a whole swag of things playing against you for your first gaff shot. The end result is what's important...and there's the photos. Well done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke1 Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 nice first marlin mate, you must've been over the moon when you saw that thing. Congratulations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunghead Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 you boy's have done well a striped marlin of approx 80kg the gemmy's and blue eye but what about the fin?got say nice rig you guy's have got Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray R Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Congrats boys, that's a great catch, I bet he really tested the gear out.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penguin Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Mate what a top and unexpected surprise that fish would have been. Congrats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve07 Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Excellent capture,that's a very nice Striped Marlin. Well done on a great day out on the mountain. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squid hunter Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 hey mate great catch looks like a striped to me regards Squid Hunter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jewdreamer Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 Great effort boys!, whens the Barbie?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewgaffer Posted July 19, 2009 Share Posted July 19, 2009 Good effort heaving up a Marlin of that size when you couldn't get a decent go at it with the gaff... did you rope it the end ? Cheers jewgaffer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plankton Posted July 19, 2009 Share Posted July 19, 2009 Nice fish... any size to the Finn? Brett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stinger Posted July 19, 2009 Share Posted July 19, 2009 sweet good on ya would have been some serious fun ay cameron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinnerbell Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 Hi fish raiders, Wednesday the 15th. Left rose bay at 6:30 heading towards browns mountian. Started trolling at the shelf towards browns, picked up a striped tuna roughly 3KG. Arrived at browns at 8:30 am and started to cube for yellowfin. As we were cubing we were bottom bashing and picked up 2 nice sized blue eyes 11KG each and 3 Gen fish. at about 12 we caught an albacore. around about 3:00 pm decided to put the striped tuna under a baloon. we were still cubing, at about 5:30 the 24 went off slowly with the whole striped tuna as bait, my mate paul thought it was a shark the way it took the bait. so he gave it some line then set the hook. At the back of the boat something went flying out of the water and we realised it was a Marlin. about half an hour into the fight the yellowfin decided to turn up on our trail. while my mate paul was fighting the marlin i decided to feed the yellowfin and i wasn't allowed to put the line in. finally after a hard 45 minute fight we had the fish aside the boat. since we havn't got experience we failed to gaf it. but in the end we got it aboard. headed back for long journey home. Please help, is this a blue or striped marlin? since its my first marlin and estimated weight since we had no scale. Gday Moe. Great catch for a days fishing. Awesome marlin. Very unexpected at this time of year. Very nice rig also. Go the Shark cat. Did you get into the fin? Tight lines Dinnerbell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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