Rum Cay, Bahamas

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Greetings from Rum Cay

Finally, after a trip to the states with the Relentless for our annual maintenance/haulout/provision trip, we returned to the island and started our blue marlin season. And our first guests of the season were not dissappointed. New friends and first timers to the Relentless, Tim Jubach and his sons Chris and Tim Jr. along with Faryt'Pepine'Kalhil arrived to great weather and a good blue marlin bite.

On our first day things began slow, we caught a dolphin in the 20lb. class and a couple of cudas in the morning but the afternoon heated up with billfish bites. All of the Jubach clan released marlin with Chris tagging and releasing a white marlin and Tim Sr and Tim Jr. each tagging and releasing blue marlin in the 200lb+ category. And we wound up jumping off one more.

Day 2 the weather and conditions were perfect and we had lines in the water for less than an hour when we had a bite from a blue marlin which promptly jumped off. We didn't have long to wait before we hooked up to a marlin in excess of 400lbs which put on quite a show for the first 10 minutes. Faryt had his hands full as the fish pulled off 400 yards of line on her initial run. After 20 minutes of hard work Faryt had her close to the boat but she wasn't done and began a long run. As luck would have it after 45 minutes we pulled the hook. The big one got away! But that's what keeps you coming back and we are looking forward to their return.

We are in for a few days and then begin a long stretch lasting until the middle of July with very few open days. We do, however, have some prime dates available and with the way the season is shaping up anyone interested in marlin fishing should contact me soon. We have July 6th-12th and July 20th-31 available and any of these dates will produce good action. So until my next report

Tight lines,

Captain Ross'Flash'Clark