Fished very deep outside the Cigar yesterday. We pulled up 5 miles short of the 500 fathom line - 77 mles from Cape Henry and set the spread. 1 hour later a beautiful white marlin, completely lit up, comes up on a very short flat line, less than 30 feet from the stern. He strikes 3 times, all short, on a black and red skirt ballyhoo combo. After he eats the whole ballyhoo, leaving only a small portion of the head -he disapppears -unbeliveable we could not hook him. An omen of things to come. I finally find the break at the 000's in a 1000 fathoms -temp jumps to 80 degrees - the water - a deep cobalt blue is completely void of any life. After 3 hours we gave it up and moved inshore to a reported gaffer bite near the Cigar. On the way, catch a very fat 30 lb bull dolphin-actually the biggest I have ever caught. Listening on the radio I hear some guys yacking about some bluefin - way inshore. Since it is on the way home I find them with our RDF (a magic tool) and set up with them in 90 feet of water. Hook a good one on the planer and drone spoon, only to lose him with an inexperienced angler on the rod. Three more strkes, obviously small ones. No hookups on these either. By this time I know we are competely snake bit, Headed back at 4:00pm in the same 4 foot rollers we arrived in, only this time on the tail. A great day, although somewhat fustrating, still a great day offshore. Lesson relearned --do not solely rely on perfect satelite shots and temp breaks--inshore in the cold water was the place to be Sat.

Congrats on the dolphin and sorry the white didn't come tight. You'll get 'em next time. Thanks for the report Kent!

Yep when the water heats up look for cold core upwelling thats where the bait will be.Thanks for the report.

Great report Kent! Its an awesome sight to see a Marlin working the spread, but frustrating when you can't get tight with it. We're going to start to have more drop back set-ups ready!!!
Tight lines!
Dave

It is exciting to see a marlin in the spread, although we were rigged way too heavy for him with 50w's and heavy tuna stuiff on. I think if I had my TLD's with some light hooks, we could have got tight on him, but oh well, 1st one this season. I think I am going to rig some TLD30's and dinks from now on though --with all this hot water the tuna are going to be more scattered, I think. May have to mix in some marlin fishing. Down south the only consistent thing was those dolphin on the Cigar. Very few YF caught there Sat.

Pretty work on the bull, the whites will be back in the spread for you soon!

Very good work. You'll get one soon enough...

Kent,

I fished on the "Wired-Up" Saturday, I think we were the "other boat" fishing out there with you guys. I called you on 68/72 around noon, but figured we were too far for anyone to hear us (17 miles east of the Cigar). I did not realize that was you til I read your post. Maybe next time I'll cathc up with you, cause that was a lot of pretty water with no fish in it!!

-Mike

Hey Mike,
Sorry I didn't hear you. I thought about where you might be as a result of our posts last week. I stay on 79A when I am offshore, so always try me there. But we should talk when we are out there, it really helps having two of three boats. I made a bad mistake by leaving the place where I raised that white. He was feeding on something. There had to be bait there. I got fixated on finding that break we were looking for -- wrongly thinking it would be "better" there. Really dumb move. Another boat released a white and lost ANOTHER one, right in that area about two hours later, then he hammered the gaffers at the same place. Mega Bite is right on when he says we've got to find that upwelling. With all that hot water the bait is going to stay on the cool side. I know that and why I left the right place I'll never know. Thought about it every since. After that episode, I getting my dredges in order to go MARLIN fishing this weekend.

Kent's a cool name (Its my name too)! nice job out there

Kent

Thanks, Kent --what kind of do you fish?

[quote=gradyman,Jun 27 2006, 01:58 PM][quote=hijumpstar,Jun 27 2006, 09:48 AM]Kent's a cool name (Its my name too)!  nice job out there

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Thanks, Kent --what kind of do you fish?

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haha What kind of what do I fish? Ah I'll guess I'm only 16 so it's tough to get out as often as I like (plus I don't have a boat ) but I usually do the surffishing thing but I like it all. I taugh myself to throw a castnet a couple of years ago so thats helped me a lot! But whenever I get the chance you can bet I'm out on the water doing what I love most....catching fish and looking at girls! ...Well...thats what most of my money goes towards anyways How bout you Kent?

--Kent

Kent! whats up man! It's Dallton. Your sn (hiJumpStar) is a little much
i think u have to be good to be a star.
hah jk man

[quote=hijumpstar,Jun 27 2006, 08:05 PM][quote=gradyman,Jun 27 2006, 01:58 PM][quote=hijumpstar,Jun 27 2006, 09:48 AM]Kent's a cool name (Its my name too)!  nice job out there

  Kent
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Thanks, Kent --what kind of do you fish?

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haha What kind of what do I fish? Ah I'll guess I'm only 16 so it's tough to get out as often as I like (plus I don't have a boat ) but I usually do the surffishing thing but I like it all. I taugh myself to throw a castnet a couple of years ago so thats helped me a lot! But whenever I get the chance you can bet I'm out on the water doing what I love most....catching fish and looking at girls! ...Well...thats what most of my money goes towards anyways How bout you Kent?

--Kent

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hey Kent i know what ur talkin about im 16 also (will be in a month) but i live for it too. i learned how to throw a castnet back when i was 11 and love to do it. and whenever i can get my dad to take me im out there too. the life of a fisherman is a great one. someone needs to tell my old man that but since i live in richmond i do a lot of freshwater fishing.