Faune Conner and 3 girl friends came out today to fish with us on the 37 Merritt. The 40 was getting some work done on it and we took the 37 today. Geza Ciege the owner of the boat and I headed south where the current has been really good to the north. it usually good on a south current but the steady current has been good for the action down in the southern zone. Our plan was to troll our way down to the UU buoy and live bait and troll back. We were a mile from the buoy and we had a unreal bite on the short bait. We had a lure I call Henry short and he disappeared in a hole. what a bite. the fish jumped right away and everyone knew it was a nice one. 15 year old Emily Hokett got in the chair and we hooked up our brand new Aftco harness we just got and went to battle. The fish jumped all over and once we settled the fish down I live planed the fish to the surface. After a 20 minute fight Geza took the wheel and I went down and wired the fish up. It tried to make a switch back and went back to the port side where I was able to pop the fish up. It was a nice fat healthy fish. We were able to get nice video and pictures. The fish was close to 800. Probably not much more but really solid and really held it weight well back by it tail. Not bad for Emily’s first blue marlin. If she would have been able to take the rod to the chair it would have beat the junior record by a mile. We ended up at the buoy like we planned but were forced to troll due to the porpoise taking over the buoy stealing everyone’s bait. We trolled up current a ways when a 550 or 600 pound fish came up on the Polu Kai tube on the short rigger and missed it 2 times. it went back and its bill came up all over the stinger and it took a swipe and left. I went straight for awhile with nothing so I turned around for another pass. I just got straightened out and the short bait went off. I thought alright we got ’em and it turned out to be it partner a fish around 200. Faune made short work of the fish and we were back trolling in just over 5 minutes. Lady luck was with us today and Girl power helped catch our biggest fish of the season so far.