I wish the story involved me in it but it does not.
We set out on the 030 north of the fleet in shallow, 35 fathoms. There was a little bit of life and small change so we figured that to be as good of spot as any so lines in at 6:45. We had a couple of mystery bites right off the bat and shortly after we hooked a yellowfin and put it in the boat. Continued pushing NE and had a couple more mystery bites, and one huge knockdown on our big bait that took a lot of drag at 18 pounds and pulled off. I'd like to think it was probably a blue marlin but we had the early sun at our back in a turn and could not see the spread well. Finally got the bite we were looking for around lunch and hooked a white marlin in 150 fathoms and brought it to the boat in short order for a release. As we were clearing lines to head in we had another yellowfin hang himself on a circle hook and broke off a nice 40-50 pounder right next to the boat on light leader.
The real story of the day came from Steve Richardson and the Backlash out of Virginia Beach. He was less than 10 miles north us white marlin fishing when he got wolfpacked by blue marlin. From what I could hear on the radio, he hooked 5 fish and caught 3 blue ones in one pass! Pretty incredible. All the fish were 100-150 pounds and perfect size for a bite like that.
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