Hal Westbrook caught this blue early in the morning outside of an area we call the grounds. After a great show close to the boat we released the fish as we do with 99 percent of them we catch. Shortly after catching the marlin we had a series of stripped marlin attacks but weren’t able to get any of them stuck. We waited until later in the day when a spearfish gave us a few tries but unfortunately it wasn’t able to get stuck either. The day ended one for one on blues zero for four on stripped marlin and zero for one on spearfish. Lots of action for the day, it would have been nice to get something else stuck but that’s why they call it fishing and not catching.
(Originally posted on February 9, 2009)