Fishing has slowed quite a bit since the mad rush of blues and stripes we had in February. We headed out with a good return client of our john doe on a full day of fishing. We trolled most of the day in a good area that had been producing for us, but we couldn’t seem to find any fish in the area. Around 2:30 in the afternoon I made a last tack through the area and a blue exploded on the short rigger PoluKai tube. The bite seemed as if everything went normal but the fish started jumping before she had taken the line out of the rigger. The line came tight and we were off to the races. We chased her on the surface for about 10 minutes and we were certain she was foul hooked somewhere. She made a last and final dive and that would be the end of her. We planed her up and as we expected she was hooked right in the middle of the tail. After 5 minutes of trying to revive her we agreed that she wasn’t going to survive. Our policies are simple, we try and release 99 percent of our marlin but we will not waste fish . Instead of sinking out a dead marlin we brought her aboard to later be sold at market. Unfortunate things do happen but 257 pounds of marlin meat feed a lot of mouths.