Christmas Marlin…It ‘s that time of year, the water warming, the bait gathering. It is Christmas Marlin time.

Another interesting day at sea yesterday,  interesting in that it all seems to have changed again. The bait was not as prolific and the water a little cooler with hardly any current.

We started trolling in eighty fathoms where the was some patchy bait and worked our way out zigzagging across the shelf between eighty and one hundred and thirty fathoms working northwards.

After a couple of hours of futile zigging and zagging I turned East and started to pick up bait balls but they were quite deep.

So, we did eventually get a strike on the ‘Lumo’ but nobody saw it. The sun was behind us and there was a decent chop due to the twenty knot North Easter blowing. The fish didn’t jump consequently there was a lot of guessing as to the species as you’ll hear in the video.

All in all it was a good day made so by a beautiful Striped Marlin being a first for the angler and his more then ebullient mates.

So far this has been a great start to the Marlin season especially since the currents have not really set up yet.

Tight lines,
Ivan

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