Marlin and Wahoo off the PIN

[blue_rogue]

Well boys, hope we are well after a very festive season.

Haven't put a post for a while, with work taking up a lot of my time, but we are back and in form...

Went out through the Seaway early Friday morning with two mates and bolted straight to the pin in seas that resembled an OIL SLICK... Trolled around the 45-55m mark for the hour and then worked our way wide off north Stradbroke. Had a small marlin come up and have a look at the lures then flicked off. Found a few balls of bait on the surface with birds working them. Couldn't get a touch so kept moving. Then all of sudden BANG, the rigger let go and a massive splash. Quick fight and had a nice 9kg Wahoo.

Fishing in about 70-80m of water north of the pin bar, then all of a sudden a marlin came and picked up a lure, then spat it. Then he came back and grabbed another lure and had a solid hook up. Good fight for 25 minutes and Steve had his first marlin... Released the cranky little black and kept going. Headed back to the pin and had another fish in the lure spread, knock a lure out of the rigger, but no hookup. Nice day till the southerly got up.

All the best

Dominic

Here are a couple of photos from the day

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Marlin next to the boat

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Another Shot

[krtazy]

awesome photos did you pin the marlin on a pakula

[agnes_jack]

Nice one Blue!
Sounds like a top day on the water
Nice hoo there too mate!
Well done
Regards, Tony

[dfox]

Great to see your into them dominic

[blue_rogue]

Yeah, he hit a purple Pakula. It was the Shotgun lure...

[JB]

Well done Dominic, I knew u'd get into one soon Who needs to travel to hutchies for hoo' eh

Jas

[flattymattyb]

HI Dom,

Good stuff mate was in the same area on friday pity I Didn't see you. Conditions friday morning were as good as it gets hey! but that southerly made the trip home a bit rough best of luck on a few more.

Cheers
Matty

[flattymattyb]

actually after having another look at the pics that doesn,t look like your boat your in, we were in a white 5m half cab did you see us out there?

Cheers
Matty

[blue_rogue]

No Matty, Didn't see you out there. We were in a blue hull 5.5m Sportsfish Centre Console....

We were also out wide and north of the Pin... Mainly fished in about 65-80metres of water.

I saw another small centre console flying around out there chasing the bait fish.

[brad_watts]

ahh thats awesome well done mate, its really firing up there atm im hoping to get up there later in the week weather depending!! my uncle has got a couple up the lately.
Thats a very nice job

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Some more Photos

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