Myself (Boneshaker) and Cpt Kenny Brown left the Hatteras Harbor at approx. 6am to do a small meat fishing up to the east of the inlet. It was the final day of the HVOO and Kenny’s dockmate and eventual winner Marv on the Wired Up was holding down initial area. The experience out was significantly less than excellent and we ended up only ready to make about 25knots in a baffled sea. As soon as we hit the blue h2o we deployed our spread of sea witches/ballyhoo combos on 100lb fluoro.

Trolled out past the one hundred fathom curve with out a single knockdown. Around an hour without a bite and I was commencing to worry. There was a great deal of grass, but it was not made up regrettably. Right after trolling east for a lengthy time, Kenny pointed the boat back again toward inshore and we ended up in the approach of placing line on one particular of the reels when the port quick rigger snapped out of the clip. The fish was taking drag and since no splash was witnessed I was contemplating tuna. That imagined evaporated rapidly when off the port aspect of the boat a massive marlin was greyhounding speedily previous us. That is actually when the panic set in. With only the two of us onboard I was trying to distinct the lines, drive the boat, and take photos. Just a notice: the throttles on an Everglades are a little touchy. I consider I only threw Kenny out of the boat once…perhaps two times. Sorry about that buddy!

Anyway following about two hrs of chasing we have been on leading of him but obtaining the last 100 feet of line back proved to be the most difficult. Following having the leader five or six occasions we obtained her boat facet and swam her for 15 to 20 minutes ahead of releasing her. We have been so defeat I believe we have been each hoping not to see yet another blue that day. Hooked her in sixty fathoms at approx seventy five degree h2o.

Ended up trolling back home and selecting off six good gaffers for the dinner table. Manufactured it back to the dock at around 6pm to find out that Wired Up held on for the win. Congrats to Marv and his crew. Pretty work.

Kenny we require to enter one of these marlin tourneys one particular of these days. Thanks for the huge time exciting.

Wish everyone loved the report. Sorry about the photographs. Possibly I should stick to driving the boat.

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