Phoar! That is one red hot day!

Mate that is frickin awesome. Well done, what a fish. When you have recovered would love to read a more detailed report.

Cheers

Mullows

 great fish Adam! 

Good stuff, still livin the dream

 well done great feed of blues there

Ok i`m jealous  nice effort today and love the bill pics . . .

Just plain nuts

today was aweseome. Calm seas, clear water.

Went out to Peak Is. visibility to the bottom in 15mt of water and crystal. Went for a dive, vis was about 10 mt, havent seen it like that for a while !

Ended up with one stonker of a mackeral, 2 trout, 1 red and a few great size spanglies.

Didnt have any canapase though. missed out !!

Can someone ban Adam from the site please?

That is one hot couple of days! Nice.

Gotta love those days out on the blue briney   Flat as a tack and clear as a bell and a few fish ta boot top stuff

you rock , see ya in a couple of days ....

Just the picnic on the beach is heaven for some but throw in a marlin or two and an eski full of bluebone and theres no doubt its been a farking awesome weekend!!!

Can I ask what lure the blue took? Or is that taboo in gamefishing?

man that is seriously awesome. respect

 great fish there Ads finaly got the big blue mate

  good looking blues there as well  ,no trout tho ??

          jeff

Top work Adam. A day to remember. Great marlin pics.

Nice work Adam. Looks like the perfect weekend.

 gotta say i am jealous. looks like your going to need a few days rest after that lot and your arms must be just a bit longer now after tackling the marlin. great effort .

nice feed of blues there as well. gotta be stoked with the effort.

Thats dam right awesome! So jealous. WTF am I doing here???!!!!

 by all accounts. Love the knowing smile tinged with a bit of pain in the first pic. 

Nice blue there Ad's. Looks like she was putting some hurt on ya. Good work bud.

Better add some more to this.  Went out Thursday and hooked two striped marlin almost at the same time, both around the 70kg mark if not more, both hooked up but the first didn't stay connected after 20 seconds and the other one we had on for 15-20 minutes before the hook pulled.

Had some serious decisions to make Saturday, do I go over the islands and go spearing or go marlin fishing with Tim who didn't have a deckie for the day.  Decided to go even the score out wide with Timbo and that we did!  Around 10:30 we hadn't seen a fish and were heading north, Tim said take the wheel, we need to change something up to see if we could get some luck.  Anyway, I picked up the speed an extra knot and headed the opposite direction back over a ledge in 450m, about 10 minutes in a solid stripey came up on the short corner and had a good chew on the big brekky - unfortunately not hooking up.  Luckily he hadn't had enough of the hook and switched to the left rigger (lumo williamson 11 inch, not sure exactly what type of lure) and sat there all fired up with his dorsal out of the water finning, waiting to eat it.  (would have been a perfect switch target if we had some bait)  Anyway, took no more than 30 seconds for him to eat up, staying connected for about 40 seconds before the hooks pulled.

Trolling the same area we had finally had some adreno to keep the eyes alerted.  I went back to the deckies chair and waited patiently, my rotation on strike finished up, Tim had his with no love and then I was back on strike (half hour rotations)  About 10 minutes into my time and around lunch, the left lumo rigger loaded up and snapped out, a hidden take as there was no action on the surface to indicate what it was.  By the time we had the spread cleared a solid bill started greyhounding the surface for what seemed like a good 5 minutes, taking a shizenload of line and keeping Tim on his toes with the positioning the boat.  Once done on the surface he decided to go deep and fight it out, the next hour was spend winning and loosing line with some serious nervousness on my part knowing that in all likelihood it was a solid blue.  All I can say is that by the end of it I was in some serious hurt, not completely from the fish, but the 38 degree's and no wind and furious pump and wind when the line was ready to come back.  (I give serious koudos to those fighting the 400lb'ers + in those conditions)  Anyway, once close to the boat he really made an effort not to come in easily, just putting enough on to keep away from the leader and swimming either side of the boat, finally we managed to get him and control long enough for a few pics.  I was too cactus to hold/swim him so got Tim to do it, within a few minutes he was having a good chew on Tim's hand and was ready to go and away he went.  Stoked.

Tried for another few hours to get Tim onto something with no luck.  Was a pretty good day considering Eddie from Peak didn't turn a reel in 12 hours and quite a few other well known game boats didn't see a fish all day.  The pelagics seem to be very sporadic out there at the moment and there are going to be some long hours put in between fish (we put in 15 hours before our first stripey hit and Josh from Onstrike hadn't seen a fish for 2 days when we hit those)  There are quite a few rat blacks around inclose, but the bigger fish out wide are pretty hit and miss.  Coming back from the Murions on Sunday we raised a little black in 40m, but didn't stay connected.

Bloody good weekend though.  Here's the action from Monday of the long weekend:

http://fishwrecked.com/forum/monday-blues-5312

ok ok enough adam! Enough!!! Cant take it no more. How the real estate up there?