Striped Marlin And Blue Marlin!

STRIPED MARLIN!
Winter months are our best for"Striped Marlin" . These smaller Marlin put up a great fight and are often found in schools where you can get multiple hook ups. This is a large "Striper" that we tagged and released last winter.

Here's a Blue Marlin these boys caught off the pier! (All fishermen are liars except for me and my crew..........and I'm not so sure about my crew!) This fish was really caught on a lure off Lanai on July 8th 2003...on the "Luckey Strike II".

It's called "WAHOO!" when you get it in the boat and "ONO" when you get too close to those teeth! Anyway you spell it they are a great fish to catch especially while slow trolling with bait and light gear.

Blue Marlin

This Blue Marlin was caught off the North Shore of Molokai while fishing for giant Yellowfin Tuna. We hooked the fish at 9:00 am and wanted to tag and release it and go catch some tuna. After 22 times to leader the fish finally made a long 200 yard run straight down and the leader got wrapped around it’s tail. Dragging it backwards killed the fish and any chance of releasing it. We finally got the fish on board at 5:00 pm. Total fighting time……………8 hours! We were 5 hours late getting back to the harbor, hence the dark background.

This big Blue Marlin was caught on the south side of Lanai. After two hours the fish wasn't moving and the line was straight up and down indicating that the fish was deceased! Trying to hand line the fish up we found that it was ANCHORED to the bottom in 850 ft. It had gotten snagged on the bottom terrain. Not wanting to dive down and take a look we circled in different directions for over an hour and the fish came loose and we muscled it up to the boat.