South OC 11/10/16 "The stripes run deep"
 

I’ll keep it short and simple..

Location: Dana Point
Gear: Seeker 30-60lb heavy, Avet JX 2 speed
Line: 65lb pp, 30lb fc leader
Bait: Mackerel
Fish: Striped Marlin
Estimated weight: 200-300lbs…. maybe larger.
Result: broke off!!!!!

Fought it for nearly 2 hours, put on a show that had the Sum Fun party boat and 2 other yachts stopped in its tracks. Fish was huge and the girth was massive!! Had it to my kayak 3 times and it dwarfed my Revo by at least 3 feet. By the time King Saba finally caught up to me for the assist, the fish had stopped jumping. I was determined to land this fish even if it meant being towed out to Catalina.
Heartbreak in Dana....

Up next.... Gonzaga!

oh yeah, and definitely need to get on the Go-Pro program




http://www.bigwatersedge.com/bwegall...00/Marlin1.jpg

I'll get the video on my camera up soon. It was a shocker of a fish! My legs were crying after yesterday lol. At one point I thought I would never catch up to you. Damn fish took you for a ride.

This was Druko's first time at Dana too btw. :luxhello:

Saba was texting realtime updates while I sat in a damn work meeting. I must have seemed very uninterested in the discussions going on because I was glued to my phone the whole time. That must have been beyond-words amazing.

Wow. One man, one rod and a serious fish on the other end on that line.

Better to have hooked up and lost than never hooked up at all?

I'm not so sure. I hope you don't have nightmares of what could been. !

Awesome man. At least you saw what it was. For me it would be way worse hooking that up and never seeing it. And you definitely had the right gear. With my luck it would have bit my 10-20lb graftech and a lexa 400.

What a thrill!:reel:

Happy November.

WOW!!!

Did you know all you had to do was touch the leader, and it would of counted as a hook and release?

Heart break for sure, that is if you were going to kill it and eat it.

Awesome story!!! No one can take that away from you!

Thanks for sharing.

Geno

Dang...! Jim

That's incredible and a once in a lifetime memory. Ain't Kayak fishing fun! Congrats in being able to get it to sight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3Ev...ature=youtu.be

Here it is. I combined the two short videos I took. The volume spikes throughout the video so I advise against wearing headphones.

That what you get for being in a Revo. If you were in a barge of a PA, that fish would have tired out in 10 minutes. Seriously awesome.

thanks for posting, still wounded...lol

Heartbreak for sure, just watched the video...

Absolutely amazing!

Awesome story but why are you know posting 2 months later lol?

I wondered the same, then I started to think it was a typo and the trip was on 11/10/16, especially when things you said were in the present tense, like being sore. If it would have been 2 months ago, everything but your mind and soul would have recovered by now.

Great story!

Losing a local marlin=lost mind=typos.......

Lol, I get that, but to be clear was your lost marlin/lost mind occurrence on 11/10/16, like I speculated, and not 2 months ago? Thanks.

One thing you can always say, you are one of the very few in Socal waters to every hook a Striped Marlin on a kayak, and to fight it for that long is impressive indeed. Congrats on the feat!

That's some serious leverage
I woulda flipped
frickin epic

Inconceivable! Way to go Roger.

It was last Thursday...

Yeah. 11/10/16. The water temp was in the mid-60s which made the hook up even more epic considering that we're not having tropical water temps at the moment.

Oh hell ya.............I'd be super stoked just for the experience!!!:luxhello:

I fixed the date for you Roger, FYI to anyone needing to edit the original title. After clicking on the edit button, click on "go advanced" and it will allow you to change title text. :D

Thanks Andy!

That is bad ass!! Sorry ya lost it, but you shall be rewarded later!

Wow! You are a fish magnet Druko!

I heard you mentioned briefly on Sunday's "Let's Talk Hook-up".:cool:

I marlin fish with my dad...
 

For 17 years...in a 24ft skipjack...what poped the hook or the line, you need a big hook but I don't no what size they are using now days...it was at least 25yrs ago I have yet to see a small marlin off San Diego I'm surprised more kayaks arn't hooking up more using live mackerel.
With a boat you use the motor to wind to the fish and then the fish pulls out your line...that's how they catch them on such lite line with a kayak your kind of limited what you can do I released a big hammerhead that took me on a nice kayak ride pulled it up it was as big as my kayak
Any way congratulations...sounds like you did everything right maybe you lost it for a good reason tight lines:reeling:

Dam epic indeed buddy hooked one in lajolla this year but it was super short fight only saw him surface a few times

Sent

The line broke. Hook was a 5/0 circle