Blue Marlin!!

By Lanzarote Fishing | July 16, 2009

It took some time, but one month later luck was again on our side and we caught our second marlin this season.

We left Puerto del Carmen on the Margarita heading Southeast, and not even half an hour had gone by, when the sonda showed a huge shoal of (probably) mackerel. We hanged around the area for a while, but as nothing was happening, we moved on back to our original route.

The hours passed by without much luck, but when we were heading back to port we decided to try that morning spot once again, as if we knew we would be given one last chance. And so it was, all of a sudden a 80lb reel screams out, it’s a marlin of over 200 kilos. It was a very intense 30 minute fight, and even though we were a bit dissapointed not to see it jump even once, when we finally took the hook off and released it, everyone was exultant. Hopefully we won’t have to wait as long for the third!