ON-THE-CHEW
11-01-2010, 07:58 PM
Was fishing off north straddy last week and heard everyone on the radio going on about all the wahoo they where catching at hutchies so on sunday we decided to give it a go for ourselves.
Had lines in the water by about 5.30am, the aim of the game was trolling, to start off with we had two diving lures and two skirts to cover all our bases. After a few passes our first hook up was on a nice dollie (pictures below) on one of my skirts, took a few jumps but got him in and he was very green, had no intentions of eating him so attempted to take some photos whilst he was going absolutely nuts, these three photos are out of about 20, new pb for me he went 120cms and 7kg.
I also had Matty on board (trolling virgin) and Gordo (got his first wahoo last week) but all three of us and the boat where marlin virgins. During the morning we had a double hook up on dolphin fish on the divers but lost both very quickly, had another good hit from a dollie on the skirt but no hook up.
Then all of a sudden had a small black (guess 30kg) come up in the spread and give one of the skirts a few wack with his beak and then decided he wasn't interested. This got us all pumped as this is our first season at having a go at trolling (usually jigging, popping and plastic boys), and the first marlin we have raised with the galeforce.
Decided it was getting a bit crowded around hutchies so moved out a bit wider. Then all of a sudden one of the divers go off, then out jumps our first marlin to hook up. We rushed around to clear the other rods while Gordo made sure he stayed connected, once that was done to our suprise the marlin was almost to the side of the boat. Gordy made easy work of it and got it to the side of the boat within 5 minutes, we where a bit worried that it was too easy.
Got him boat side and grabbed his beak and was about to grab his tail, when he let it sink down so he was pointing strait up. New what was going to happen next (thanks to previous stories) and let go of the beak. Next second he jumped vertically right next to the boat almost totally out of the water. He decided he would use all of the energy he had been saving and went nuts next to the boat, he took a quick dive straight down, this is when I realised that gordos rod was directly above my head (wacking me in the head a few times on the way down), in all of the action, he dislodged the trebble hook and just swam off peacefully just to rub it in.
In all of the action, and the fact that it was boat side so quickly we didn't get any photos or video which was a bit of a bummer for all but especially gordo. Just curious on the size, it would have been about 5-6 foot from end of bottom jaw to fork of tail. Guess 40kg plus ???
Got two Pb's, broke the boat's and Gordon's marlin virginity, and can't wait to get out there again. Sitting in an open boat for 6 hours absolutely kills you, still buggered today, but it was all worth it. Next time will hopefully get photos, hopefully it will be my first ....
Andrew
Had lines in the water by about 5.30am, the aim of the game was trolling, to start off with we had two diving lures and two skirts to cover all our bases. After a few passes our first hook up was on a nice dollie (pictures below) on one of my skirts, took a few jumps but got him in and he was very green, had no intentions of eating him so attempted to take some photos whilst he was going absolutely nuts, these three photos are out of about 20, new pb for me he went 120cms and 7kg.
I also had Matty on board (trolling virgin) and Gordo (got his first wahoo last week) but all three of us and the boat where marlin virgins. During the morning we had a double hook up on dolphin fish on the divers but lost both very quickly, had another good hit from a dollie on the skirt but no hook up.
Then all of a sudden had a small black (guess 30kg) come up in the spread and give one of the skirts a few wack with his beak and then decided he wasn't interested. This got us all pumped as this is our first season at having a go at trolling (usually jigging, popping and plastic boys), and the first marlin we have raised with the galeforce.
Decided it was getting a bit crowded around hutchies so moved out a bit wider. Then all of a sudden one of the divers go off, then out jumps our first marlin to hook up. We rushed around to clear the other rods while Gordo made sure he stayed connected, once that was done to our suprise the marlin was almost to the side of the boat. Gordy made easy work of it and got it to the side of the boat within 5 minutes, we where a bit worried that it was too easy.
Got him boat side and grabbed his beak and was about to grab his tail, when he let it sink down so he was pointing strait up. New what was going to happen next (thanks to previous stories) and let go of the beak. Next second he jumped vertically right next to the boat almost totally out of the water. He decided he would use all of the energy he had been saving and went nuts next to the boat, he took a quick dive straight down, this is when I realised that gordos rod was directly above my head (wacking me in the head a few times on the way down), in all of the action, he dislodged the trebble hook and just swam off peacefully just to rub it in.
In all of the action, and the fact that it was boat side so quickly we didn't get any photos or video which was a bit of a bummer for all but especially gordo. Just curious on the size, it would have been about 5-6 foot from end of bottom jaw to fork of tail. Guess 40kg plus ???
Got two Pb's, broke the boat's and Gordon's marlin virginity, and can't wait to get out there again. Sitting in an open boat for 6 hours absolutely kills you, still buggered today, but it was all worth it. Next time will hopefully get photos, hopefully it will be my first ....
Andrew