NeilD
03-08-2004, 05:43 PM
This is about a mate who picked up his first Marlin (30kg) on Saturday.I wasn't there but his son in law let me know. He caught it out of his 45ft timber boat on a pink squid trolling for Tuna for bait on the way outside(Hutchies). He has taken the boat outside 4 times since buying it and on one other trip we caught another one on a small Leads bibbed minnow about 4"long.
I brought the boat down from Innisfail when he bought it and about 4hrs out he hooked a fairly big Marlin on a CD18 and lost it as it dived under the boat after about 45 mins.
After all the days I have spent dragging carefully rigged expensive Marlin lures around bait schools and not catching any I have come to the conclusion that this old timber vessel is a Marlin Magnet.
Cheers Neil
I brought the boat down from Innisfail when he bought it and about 4hrs out he hooked a fairly big Marlin on a CD18 and lost it as it dived under the boat after about 45 mins.
After all the days I have spent dragging carefully rigged expensive Marlin lures around bait schools and not catching any I have come to the conclusion that this old timber vessel is a Marlin Magnet.
Cheers Neil