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Nexus - Marlin on!



Wow....out of desperation I put a large plug with a double hook on one of our lines this afternoon since we've had no luck and I thought it would make lots of commotion and attract a fish. About 7pm the reel started screaming and took out half of the line on one of our large reels in one continuous smoking run. We were pouring water on the reel to cool it. We got the sails down and boat stopped and drifted with the motors running. The line sounded straight down off the back of the boat and pulled hard for 20-30minutes and we made no progress pulling it in with Finnbar fighting hard on the reel the whole time. Then the fish started to surface but gave back no line and kept pulling. We were sure it was tired and because it sounded we hoped it was a nice tuna! However 5 minutes later the fish surfaced...and it took off tail walking like a jet ski on full throttle taking like off the smoking reel, taking a total of 750feet before it broke the line near the leader and swam away. It didn't look the least bit tired, but we were all shattered. It was about a 200lb white marlin, a beautiful silvery white water rocket. Thank God we didn't get it on board! What fun...who get to do this?

Russ and Laurie on NEXUS at 21:15 02/02/2015 at 13 12.7S;29 44.4'W

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