his majesty the black marlin
March 3rd, 2007yours truly scored our second black (billfish #103) and a day later it still hurt so good.We ended up putting in 3 full days offshore at Pinas with 4 shots.Missed 1 black and 1 blue.Bite was slow by local standards with the fleet releasing 9 blacks,1 blue,1striped and 1 sail during our stay.(see sidebar for tropic star link)Although slow the size of the Marlin was world class by any standard with a 500lb class average.Unfortunately the trip underscored our mechanical shortcomings with autopilot,watermaker,and glendenning still out.Also we have at least 1 injector out on the starboard engine.Fortunately yesterday we found James Tobiasson (jdt@manpanama.com)the MAN man who can and will put it together.Now all we need is a weather window on the Atlantic side(currently 12 ft.at 8 seconds..bouyweather.com)and we can transit the canal and make a run for Isla.
wyas to Inta show the boys how its done congrats Chris on the 2nd black wishing i was there
seeya soon