325 Kg Blue Marlin

Written by:
Hans Kruit, 21 August 2010

325 KILOS BLUE MARLIN

Patrick Cardoso de Bastos and Erwin Welling from Holland fished this morning their last of 4 booked charters on the boat CAVALIER.
They left the harbour this morning still at 8 a.m.
Unfortunately without success, because also on this last fishing day, they couldn't find their dreamfish.
Sorry boys, but the fishing can be a very hard sport.
Thanks anyway for the 4 nice fishing trips which we had with you.

The crew of the CAVALIER fished in the afternoon with their clients on the 23 meter reef.
There has been caught lots of Seabreams.

The heaviest fish on this trip was a Roughtail Stingray with a weight of approximately 125 kilo. (view: Hall of Fame)
Philippe de Keersmaeker from Belgium caught a good sized Butterfly ray and his son Arno a Common Stingray.

It was also on the EXPLORAMAR the last fishing day for Steve and Lesly Prowse from England.

At 12.15 p.m. Steve hooked up with a Blue Marlin.
The fish took a 500 meter run and Steve needed about 50 minutes to bring this `giant` back to the boat.
We saw that the line was tangled around the tale of the fish.
The crew tried everything to safe this beauty but unfotunately without success.

Shit happens and the fish died behind the deck.

In the harbour we have cleaned and sold the fish.
The yield we will donate to the TBF.


Hans

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