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.
(Originally posted on June 30, 2008)