| 9/6/08 Rough waters, no fish on board, marlin hookup at the 9
Went out with pops and the bro to the 9 and hoped to pull in some yellowfin again, but we couldn't find the right porpoise. We found some great big pieces of kelp, but no one was home until we found one huge one. We fished it for a while 3rd drift i hooked into a dodo that spit the hook while jumping. 2 passes later my brother hooks into something that wasn't moving much just a dead wieght. He turns it and starts to bring it in. We think it's a shark. Turns out to be a striped marlin. The thing swims right under the boat and then decides he wants to go and starts zinging out line and jumping out all over the place. We think it was about 150# range on the marlin. Mind you my brother is using a pole w/ 30# test and a rod rated from 10-30#. He's getting close to getting spooled so we try to fire up the boat and the boat is not having it. Pump the ball choke the enguine and NOTHING! Finally the line snapps and what do you know the enguine fires up. It's like we were cursed out there. No dodo, no tuna, no marlin, and we got our asses kicked coming home! Tough day for us hope others did well.
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