Incoming…..
January 19th, 2011It’s 3PM Monday Jan17 one day before the full moon.We are 6 for 12 so far today working the location we found late yesterday with 2 blacks and 4 blues to 400lbs.released….#13 eats the magnum black and purple softhead off the right short rigger and is greyhounding for Australia on a standup 80 with 24 lbs. of drag screaming.We clear and I’m hooking up Tommy to his harness when out of the corner of my eye I see a wall of white water crashing towards the transom.I hit the deck taking Beto and Tom with me as the impact shutters Thumper.From my knees I see Mitch still standing on the other side of the pit stunned.Capt.Sean from Boca was on the wheel up top and said the bill stopped a foot from Mitch’s chest.I look over the transom and the Marlin is 10 feet off stone dead on the surface.His lower jaw is shattered from the impact as his bill was over the transom and the force hurled his body into the corner of the cockpit and crushed his heart.Everyone was silent,shocked and as a man hit the beer cooler.
Oscar+Mike+Foxtrot+Golf there are no kevlar vests on board! Capt. Sean is screaming “somebody check the transom” all I can do is think, damn these blue beasts are pissed and they’re coming after us! My mind can’t process what just happened, I’m awestruck. Now I KNOW what “taking blue marlin on stand-up” means.
WTF… I’d hit the beer cooler after that also.