Bill Wolf and sons met us early and we high speed trolled to the Otec buoy and put baits out. I was sad to see that the current was dead. The birds and bait were there and it was hard to tell where to look for the big fish so we put baits out and trolled them around the buoy. We got a shark bite first and reeled in a leader with no hook on it. We got 2 more baits and this time we got the right kind. I saw the marlin eat the bait off of the surface and soon after Bill was hook to the first fish of the day. After a challenging fight we got a tag in the 200 pound fish. The reason it was a challenge was because I need to go forward while Matt had the leader and there was a vertical float line off of our bow and I couldn’t move. The fish was in back and the buoy was in the front. We tip toed out of it and got the fish released. Soon the bad porpoise came into the buoy and began stealing everyone’s baits. Once the porpoise come it is the end of live baiting because they eat the meat off of the tuna and leave us the heads. We had marked and missed 2 big tuna on the baits before they got there and put our tuna stick out to see if we could catch a tuna. Our first pass we got a double strike on two 30 pound fish and landed one. Perfect for dinner and our neighbors. We left the buoy hoping that the boats and porpoise would leave so we could come back and try to live bait again. No such luck. The porpoise didn’t leave and so we worked our way to the harbor. Right before we went in we got a mercy bite on a marlin and after we got the lines clear we pulled the hook.
