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If day one wasn’t exciting enough day two would end in an unforgettable bang.  The action wasn’t as fierce as the day before but we still managed to catch two blues and a striped marlin before ten in the morning.  Rob, the captain of the Lightspeed had joined us for the day to help out and film.  Having two mates on board we decided to bait and switch.  With a tank full of live Opelu( cigar minnow) we raised a nice fish on one of our teasers.  As I teased the blue from the bridge  Tracy quickly grabbed a bait and pitched it to the on coming marlin.  The blue had chased my teaser all the way past the bait, but in one quick move she switched over and lopped the opelu from the side.

Martha and her husband Larry came to Kona in pursuit of catching Martha her last species of billfish to complete the Billfish slam.  Short nose spearfish are usually the last species for an avid sport fisherman to catch and Martha had come all the way to Kona for just that reason.  We started the week off with a bang and on day one she caught three Striped Marlin and a small blue.  This day was full of action and most of our bites were doubles, including blues and striped marlin together.  On our way home from the grounds a large blue climbed on one of our 50’s and we chased it for over 2 miles never letting it get very far away.  After close to an hour into the fight we finally had the big blue beat.  Ten feet from getting the leader we added some more pressure to plane the fish up and the 50 lb test line gave out.  Though it can’t be considered a catch we definably got the best out of that fish.

Catching two nice fish in two days is a pretty big feat to accomplish.   On June 29th we tagged the first of the two blues for the wife and on the very next day we attempted to release the second fish for the husband, but unfortunately the marlin wasn’t able to survive.  After being lassoed with the leader, the large blue fought herself into exhaustion, and we were not able to revive her at the boat.  We swam her for fifteen minutes and let her go three separate times only to have her float back to the surface.  With no other choice we pulled her through the door and ran her in. Even though we release 99 percent of our marlin, we do have a few that die once in awhile.  In Hawaii all fish are eaten and a large marlin like this will not go to waste.  Our blue ended up weighing 635, not bad considering we were calling her 600 before we had to pull her aboard.