06-07-2015, 06:23 PM
many of you probably don't care too much about this, but in the off chance some do...
We went out in search of dolphin (mahi-mahi) yesterday. Just couldn't put anything together despite a great deal of preparation etc. Started out 10 miles offshore, and just worked our way in. Our last ditch effort to save that day was to drift between 150-180ft depth and just put as many live pilchards out as we could.
We were in 150ft, and on the verge of pure depression, when 30 ft from the stern, what we thought was a HUGE sailfish (just with his sail down) cleared the water in one huge jump.
We all came out of our funk instantly of course and we proceeded to fight this 7+ footer to boat-side on my little penn spinfisher v 4500 rod/reel combo I use for bass (20lb braid, 30lb fluro leader, size 1 hook). When we got him in close we realized he was a young blue marlin, which explained what our eyes could see (size, coloring, pointed dorsal, etc.) but what our brains just couldn't fathom.
Apologies in advance for the video, very shakey, piss poor quality, and I completely lost it seeing this thing go NUTS, so volume might need some adjusting. I wasn't really paying attention to the video, I was mostly in total AWE.
Anyway - crazy friggin' day that I'm still shaking my head in awe over.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h35EXGj07vM[/youtube]
We went out in search of dolphin (mahi-mahi) yesterday. Just couldn't put anything together despite a great deal of preparation etc. Started out 10 miles offshore, and just worked our way in. Our last ditch effort to save that day was to drift between 150-180ft depth and just put as many live pilchards out as we could.
We were in 150ft, and on the verge of pure depression, when 30 ft from the stern, what we thought was a HUGE sailfish (just with his sail down) cleared the water in one huge jump.
We all came out of our funk instantly of course and we proceeded to fight this 7+ footer to boat-side on my little penn spinfisher v 4500 rod/reel combo I use for bass (20lb braid, 30lb fluro leader, size 1 hook). When we got him in close we realized he was a young blue marlin, which explained what our eyes could see (size, coloring, pointed dorsal, etc.) but what our brains just couldn't fathom.
Apologies in advance for the video, very shakey, piss poor quality, and I completely lost it seeing this thing go NUTS, so volume might need some adjusting. I wasn't really paying attention to the video, I was mostly in total AWE.
Anyway - crazy friggin' day that I'm still shaking my head in awe over.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h35EXGj07vM[/youtube]
Gameless (for now)