Report forwarded from our customer JFT, via email from Andrew Thorpy fishing in Australia.
Not bad
Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2009, 6:03 PM
Im back fishing in Australia aboard Sea Baby IV with Capt. Peter B Wright. We just finished up our first 5 day charter of the season Oct. 9-13th. On the first day we caught a 400lb Black Marlin and saw two other tailers. The next day was one that I will never forget. We started off catching a 300lber, then hooked a real nice one. After a 15-20 min fight I got on the leader with a 900lb+ Black that made 7 huge jumps on the leader. We got the tags in her and cracked her off the leader. Not more than 15 min later we hooked another nice one. Peter B called this one 950lb+ but said she was real close to the mark and could possibly make it. Again we tagged and released this Black as our clients didn’t want to weight any fish. What an incredible day to catch two really big ones that put on a great show with only 15-20 min fights. I really thought it couldn’t get any better than that but was proved otherwise when the third day we hooked into a really nice one.
After a 30 min fight we got the tags in another marlin Peter B called 1000lb+. That day we saw 10 marlin and pulled another one off. On the fourth day we caught a 450lber, pulled one off and saw another. Last day we caught a 700lb Tiger shark on a live skipjack. Had a great five day trip with 6 fish, 2 over 900lbs and 1000lb+ We are off again today for a 4 day charter, will send another report when I get a chance.
Cheers,
Andrew
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