Well Mr Patata Head ewe've cum tu the right place
1st thing ewe need tu du is burn that glass HUFFA thing ewe float around in & get yourself a FULL BOAT, cant ketch blues in HUFFA boat
Next ewe to spend a FULL day on the water, no more of these HUFFA days
Oh yeah lose your KUNG FU PANDA costume

Well peeps looked @ weather yesterday & today was looking GooDarus so i hooked up the goat & went for anutta wun of my solo trips thought a marlins would be nice but was morso geared up for a dolly fush
Glorious day on the water lucky for auto pilot cause i was having nanny naps was having wun around 2ish when all hell broke loose.
Now said i was out to chash dollys did pack 3 game stics they were 24kg outfits but the wuns i use when walking slimmys not my trolling outfits they had 50A's on them not the LRS's i use on the bent buts @ wun stage i was ruing my choice of outfits.
I've been fushing for many many many moons no stranger to the gamefishing scene not to much i haven't done nor caught BUT TODAY i saw the bottom of the spool for the 1st time ever reckon maybe 30 meters of the braid backing.
I top shot outfits with around 300 meters of mono that 300 meters diappeared just as i pulled 1st outfit in concerned left udder outfit out turned the boat to chase fish wise move me tinks on 4 occasions i was down to 100 meters on the spool but managed to get line back cause fish was playing nice on surface.

It's last run was a killer it went deep & i was out in 800 meters of water that was the run i saw bottom of spool, i knew i had a awesom fish on the udder end cause i saw it jumpus early in the fight really do believe not to many fisho's would've landed this fish dont think they would've had what it took, i called on all my years of expirence & something i'm very good @
I'm as calm as they get & never panic i didn't up the drag as many would i backed it off to allow for water pressure & drag increase due to diminishing spool dia.
I dont fish club scene so dont have to abide by rules fight was a bit over 2hr ordeal & that last run well put it this way i couldn't lift the fish on rod strokes so i put rod in rod holder used the motor & current to elevate fish to the surface all with only 30 meters of line left on the spool.

In the end all to no avail cause the fish came up dead as a door nail i was not happy about that @ all a magnificent specimen of a BLUE MARLIN my estimation on the weight was over the 180 kg mark
Did have it along side of boat & overall length was 3300 mm

Did take camera out today to much going on for me to worry about pics no different to all the BLUE's i've encounted over the years they jump @ start of fight then you dont see them till they're boatside i did take pics with camera but been years since i last used it & have lost lead till i replace lead

I assume there is more to come to complete this story, as it seems to have been cut a little short.
It's never good having a dead fish at the side of the boat, only happened to me once, I have had them go down deep
and stay there and as you did had to use the boat and current to persuade them to come up.
Last Marlin I was ever connected to did it to me and unfortunately I had a ill fitting harness and I broke my back,
the crew managed to get the line wrapped around the prop and lost the fish while I was laying on my back in the cabin.
Never held a game rod since then, and doubt I ever will again.

Hoping to hear more about this adventure.

Jumpy. IF it's the Olympus camera you need a cord for let me know and I can post mine to you for a lend to download the shots.
OR drop in to my place and we can down load them on my comp.

interesting story but no photos no prize.

Found the lead to no avail pics came out crap prob me not remembering how to use camera
Here's wun off the ph camera

Yo KUNG FU PANDA
This is wot a real marlins looks like

Nice colour water. Marlin looks dead.... This is a live one.

was probably a blow up marlin... he is into blow up things lately

It was a BANANA BLUE looked just like ewe
Complete with Alcohol oozing out it's rear end to the port side

4got i had this pic took it on ph after i got a bit of line back on after fishy's final run

Did you leave this one on free spool, rather than strike drag? Whose good at untangling line?