Blue marlin
Just a quick laugh at my wife Hannah .
Decided yesterday to look for rubies on the 300m mark at ningaloo station, and after half an hour or so thought with the water temp at 28.3 should put out a couple of pushers one black Bart on only 10 kg line and the other a blue soft grassy on the 20 kg .
20 minutes later the black Bart takes off and I gun the engine , line screams off and Hannah grabs the rod, solid hookup !
Fish jumps quickly and I just know we are undergunned massively, Hannah however is and I quote so excited she could wet herself.
I think to myself that attitude is not going to last if we stay connected.
One hour in she's still excited, fish has jumped a couple more times about a hundred meters from the boat but we are staying close now.Two hours in she is starting to feel the burn in her arms but is staying positive , we only had the crappy travel camera so fish has jumped again and we've got a few photos, (hope can download some to laptop when we get home)I still believe she doesn't realise just what she has hooked because her last black was under a hundred pound.Two and a half hours fish has sounded and Hannah is almost done, but wants to see it jump one more time....
Three hours and Hannah is finished fish comes up jumps 30 m from the boat grey hounding across about 70 m and that's when Hannah realises the blue she has hooked isn't even tired so at the three hour and twenty minute mark she asks me what to do , I take the rod and bust off the line as estimated weight of fish was 250kg and on the gear we had would probably taken 5-7 hrs if at all . Hannah was happy with her ruby though today is suffering from some very sore arms and sunburn !
Cruise Control
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Three and a half hours on a
Three and a half hours on a loaded rod. I'd say Hannah did a great job. 250kg on 10kg, if she had landed that . . . . . Wow !
Chinbald
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Happy wife .........
Cool story, looks like a keeper
Auslobster
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Did the right thing...
...another couple hours and the fish would've been stuffed, too. Well done to Hannah for hanging in there for as long as humanely possible!
holth
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So you made it there in one
So you made it there in one piece.
So Hannahs out fishing you again. Ha. good fish.
Send through some pics
Fisheagle
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Great read
...would loved to have seen the fight.
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meglodon
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Now tha's a knock down drag out fight.
I have to say that I'm glad that you didn't take the fight to it's absolute end. As has been said above the fish would have been dead or dying and I don't think it deserved that type of ending.
It's a sport fish and by ending the fight the way you did it can live to give another angler the thrill that it gave Hannah.
You did a bloody good job Hannah and a high five to you for it.
scano
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Long fight!
Looks as though the dog is just as tired from the ordeal as what your Mrs was. Hahahah
on a more serious note, top work for taking the Mrs and the dog for a fish, hookingg something awesome, and letting her have a go at fishing the fish solo for so long.
plenty of other blokes would interrupt after a short fight and say "here I will show you how it's done". Some blokes do this with their kids fishing also, and for that they learn nothing. You let them have a go and make their own angling mistakes so they know for next time what not to do.
good job
scano
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meglodon
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I agree
Totally agree with your comments Scano
striker
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Hi Holth
yeh getting done by Hannah again but I like to take her and she likes to fish as do both Chloe and Skyla our two bluies. As a side note I deliberately busted the fish off to keep it in good health had done over 7nm in a straight line so well over 8nm overall and ended up at the 700m mark I would hate to spend 5-7hrs on her and see her not swim away, rules are kill nothing for no reason except foxes and cats!
Weve not really fished hard but spent a lot of time sounding around for future trips but got some nice rubies and a few goldband . The 588 reads well out to 450 at slow speed and little chop so pretty pleased with that. Will show some pictures of the blue when I can download them to a laptop. Crappy reception out here (a good thing with work) and only get it when the wind blow from the south but will call you re Pepper when we leave Thursday mate.