Hola Anglers,

A few days ago I got word that there was a great marlin bite just short of the known 30-30 mark.
Great Captains like Capt Kiwi saw as many as 6 big blues, while releasing 2.  And our Captain Hurcules went 1 for 2 on blues, and he indicated that the first one was over 400lbs.
Figures....it was my one day off.

Two days later 10-29-2014, I headed out with a local group.  Very nice day, 15 second swells, flat calm, BLUE BLUE water.  We tried inshore fishing, caught a couple nice bull dorado, and then decided to run off shore where the fellas left off some days earlier.  We were 15 mins into troll when a nice blue lite up my center teaser (we run a flat teaser off the rigger, and two longer daisy chains off the rigger that I control from the bridge and the mates have a center teaser with a boat rod).  We pitched the mackerel out, she grabbed it, dropped it and that was it.  Good size fish, around 300 lbs.

We kept working the area when I caught in the corner of my eyes, a series of giant splashes a couple miles further off shore.  I made the line to where I thought the last splash was and that's when it happened.  My short flat teaser got crushed by something massive.  The angler who had a sailfish bait on the flat clip couldn't avoid the bite (we wanted to use a 50 lb pitch bait Mack), and he was tight in a matter of seconds.  2.5hrs later!!!  We released a BIG Blue over 400lbs on 20lb test!  That's right, very hard to do.  As we trolled in we raised a triple sailfish tease and released one sail.  We decided to call it a day.  Very exciting.  We were strictly targeting the marlin.  Sailfish seem to be in a different area further off shore.  But when you hear a great marlin bite you drop everything and GO!!!!!!!!

Sailfish:7-3-1
Marlin: 3-2-1
Dorado: 3-2-2

Tight Lines,
Capt Chris Starrs