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Our 10 day
charter was one of the strangest trips I've been on. Usually we can
count on plenty of tuna, but this year there was no red meat to show.
Instead we caught carp! Yep, the marlin were so thick you couldn't
help but get bit. Fact is, one angler caught and released 19 of 'em in
only two days. The boat brought over 212 marlin to the rail in two
days! It was incredible, but not what we were targeting at all. The
marlin were mixed in the waters where we caught wahoo and dorado, they
were an unintended by-catch. If someone wanted to pull on billfish
they could. If you wanted to avoid 'em you'd fish iron for wahoo, as I
did, but even then I caught several marlin using wahoo iron like Sea
strike 33's. It was downright strange. There were some big tuna off
the Mag Bay area, but they weren't biting at all. Probably some of
these fish were in the 150-200# class, but the water wasn't making 'em
active for us. Like I said, it was a strange trip this year, that's
fishing. You never know what it's going to be like until you're at the
rail fishing. 10 day trips offer the widest variety of fishing, and
this one was no exception. We caught everything from ling cod,
rockfish, wahoo, dorado, peanut size yellowfin, tree-fish, and mucho
marlin. We fished a lot of 30, 40-50# gear this trip instead of the
heavy 60-100#. This year it was an uncrowded rail, with only 19
anglers fishing 105 feet of boat! With the fish counts low, financial
markets pessimistic, there was plenty of room on the rail. Don't count
on that happening again. 
