After dropping a small hardtail to 400-feet, a huge blue marlin ate the bait and did it ever put on a show.
) - A pair of Pensacola fishermen who you’ve seen on FOX10 News before catching massive sharks, including Great Whites from the beach have another tale to tell. This time, they’ve really outdone themselves.
It was earlier this month when Dylan Wier and Blaine Kenny took their 22-foot, single engine boat 95-miles out of Orange Beach with the hope of catching yellowfin tuna. Instead, they got a fish tale of a lifetime to tell. Expecting it to break off at any moment, imagine their surprise when 55-minutes later, not only was it still hooked, but it was boat side where they were able to get a hand on the leader before breaking off. That made the catch official.
“Since we were using such a small reel, we were just kind of chasing him around. I was just easing him up to the surface and the whole time, in my mind I’m thinking, if he’s mouth-hooked and he’s done all the jumping, all the acrobatic stuff, by now we’ve got to be hanging on by a hair on sixty-pound fluorocarbon.”
As it turned out, the fishermen say the marlin was foul hooked behind the pec fin which allowed them to fight it so long on a small tuna set-up.
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