Well, so far offshore fishing in Sept. has not been as red hot as I was expecting it to be. In fact, our last three tuna trips were probably the three slowest of the year. Sometimes the truth hurts. However, there have been some nice highlights. Here’s a late summer blue marline caught by Smokey Bauman and crew from Destin, FL.  What do you do when a marlin eats both of your live baits? Well, fight it with both rods, of course. Not surprisingly, 40# of drag catches them much faster than 20#. We didn’t get off scott-free though, as the green blue marlin took it out on the leader man. The gloves with no fingers, while not intentional, were definitely a bad idea. We got another satellite tags in this marlin too, so hopefully in 90 days we’ll get some cool info via Texas A& M.

 

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