We caught this 175# blue marlin during the last few minutes of the 2 day mini-tournament for Jackson National. We put the trolling baits out on a line just 5 miles from the pass in about 400′ of water and had this marlin on in less than 10 minutes. Brian Low kept his head in the game and we got the blue to the boat in about 20 minutes.

Brian told me he’d caught a marlin before, so I didn’t try to toss him over. However, by the time we got back to the dock, his team mates (in cohots with capt. Beach) pulled the technicality that his previous billfish was a striped marlin, bot a blue, and therefore he could either jump or be thrown in the marina. It was ugly, be he took it like a man.

 Capt. Brett

 

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