First Stripy of the Season

Lot’s of action on sunday as Helen Thompson managed to reel in a small striped marlin. Two stripies were spotted swimming together and after one strike with no hook up, skipper Mike Wilson managed to bring the boat round into the perfect position to get the fish’s interest again. The second strike proved much more successful and Helen managed to land the fish after a 40 minute battle. Congratulations to Helen on landing her first ever marlin!

Large Black gets away

Today ended with disappointment after an epic 5 1/2 hour battle. On the northern end of the trench Alan got hooked up on a 300kg+ Black. We caught a few glimpses of the fish as it came up thrashing, but despite Alan’s hard effort in the chair, this fish refused to be landed. We got a few more glimpses of the fish and Alan managed to bring it up to the double on quite a few occasions, but in the end this was just too big a fish for the line. Hard Luck Alan.