My Turn Finally

[Tackle Junkie]

Hi Guys / Girls,

The last 3 outings in the new boat have been fantastic, we have caught 3 marlin, 2 wahoo and some good dollies. The only problem has been that none of the marlin I have been mine.

I shelled out on the new boat and have put some mates onto their first Marlin. I say this jokingly as we have had a ball and I have traced 2 marlin, which was daunting at first.

Anyway, we have not been out for 8 weeks due to work / weather and I have been busting to get back out there.

Well myself and a mate headed out yesterday in hope of me finally getting a marlin - well job done.............

We headed out towards the shelf / browns and starting trolling 1km before the 12 mile.

We must have been trolling for about 40mins when shotgun goes nuts. It was my own outfit and i chose the lure so I truly consider that the marlin was mine.

The first run took almost every bit of line on the reel and i was at sunset. Only two onboard and we were trolling 5 lures and 2 teasers, with about 50 meters of line left i said to my mate - we are going to have to turn and chase / back up / anything otherwise i would get spooled.

I still don't know how this happened but shotgun went off - line was screaming but we saw a massive splash right next to the boat (5 meters) off the port side. Obviously there was a belly in the line, but how it was running and how it got to the boat so quick?? oh well. Anyway we only saw a splash not the fish - we assumed it was a marlin but were not 100%.

Anyway an hour and 5 mins later we swam and released what I think is a blue marlin - to say I am stoked is an understatement, my partner does not understand my excited but she lets me fish so i guess i can't complain.

We are new to game fishing - this has only been now my 4th trip to the shelf and the boat has raised a marlin every trip. I am wrapped.

With only two on board photo's / video was difficult. I forgot my video camera and still camera was flat.

Either way i have proof - my mate got video on his mobile phone and i got two stills on the iphone. One of my favourite rods became a short stroker, but who cares, the marlin box has been ticked.

Job Done....bring on next Saturday.

Cheers,

Josh

[Mike Armour]

Nice blue Josh,

Well done especially on light gear.

[Pongrass18ft]

:thumbup:

Hi Guys / Girls,

The last 3 outings in the new boat have been fantastic, we have caught 3 marlin, 2 wahoo and some good dollies. The only problem has been that none of the marlin I have been mine.

I shelled out on the new boat and have put some mates onto their first Marlin. I say this jokingly as we have had a ball and I have traced 2 marlin, which was daunting at first.

Anyway, we have not been out for 8 weeks due to work / weather and I have been busting to get back out there.

Well myself and a mate headed out yesterday in hope of me finally getting a marlin - well job done.............

We headed out towards the shelf / browns and starting trolling 1km before the 12 mile.

We must have been trolling for about 40mins when shotgun goes nuts. It was my own outfit and i chose the lure so I truly consider that the marlin was mine.

The first run took almost every bit of line on the reel and i was at sunset. Only two onboard and we were trolling 5 lures and 2 teasers, with about 50 meters of line left i said to my mate - we are going to have to turn and chase / back up / anything otherwise i would get spooled.

I still don't know how this happened but shotgun went off - line was screaming but we saw a massive splash right next to the boat (5 meters) off the port side. Obviously there was a belly in the line, but how it was running and how it got to the boat so quick?? oh well. Anyway we only saw a splash not the fish - we assumed it was a marlin but were not 100%.

Anyway an hour and 5 mins later we swam and released what I think is a blue marlin - to say I am stoked is an understatement, my partner does not understand my excited but she lets me fish so i guess i can't complain.

We are new to game fishing - this has only been now my 4th trip to the shelf and the boat has raised a marlin every trip. I am wrapped.

With only two on board photo's / video was difficult. I forgot my video camera and still camera was flat.

Either way i have proof - my mate got video on his mobile phone and i got two stills on the iphone. One of my favourite rods became a short stroker, but who cares, the marlin box has been ticked.

Job Done....bring on next Saturday.

Cheers,

Josh

Great work josh,it,s a great feeling isn,t it.Good to see alot of fish being caught.

I can still feel the excitement of my first hook up a few weeks back.Keep up the good work mate :thumbup:

chris

[brickman]

well done josh it takes about a month to stop grinning now you need a stripe a black a short bill spear and a sword fish god i love game fishing it can be as boring as bat shit then all hell brakes loose

cheers gary

[REEF MAGIC CHARTERS]

Well done Josh.. any blue is a great effort on anything less than 37kg even then they can be hard to stop!!! Keep it up there are still quite a few striped marlin out there at the moment, Huntress had a bait ball on the weekend with 5 ripping through it.

Cheers

Mike

[SurfNazi]

Hi Josh

Well done mate what sort of boat and motor are you running there seems to be doing the trick

cheers jas

[Tackle Junkie]

Hi mate,

new boat goldstar 6m plate boat 150 yammie 4 stroke.

I love it and am very happy. Every trip it has raised great fish, I am very lucky it seems for a novice to game fishing.

Cheers,

Josh