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179 Marlin and 1 sailfish released in one day - Cabo San Lucas Mexico - World record
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179 Marlin and 1 sailfish released in one day - Cabo San Lucas Mexico - World record
Cabo San Lucas Mexico , 4th November 2007
World Record 179 Striped Marlin Released and 1 Sailfish
After the Bisbee's Black and Blue Team Reelaxe with the Brazilians went up to the finger bank for some fun fishing and striped marlin fishing.
The Team released 61 striped marlin in one day. Seeing this called Dave Brackmann and advised him and we decided to fly down and fish it.
We left the dock at 3.00am with 6 feet seas and only 14 knts heading towards the Golden gate and made +- 60 pcs bait then headed up to
Finger bank 54 nautical miles from cabo. We arrived at 8.30 am after a head sea and winds but this started to die down when we arrived.
Anglers - Dave Brackmann, Steve Brackmann, Alex Rogers - Jose Espanoza , Saul Contrearus, Dennis and myself. Camera's rolling
onboard Reelaxe we found the marlin crashing the bait balls and we were hooked up.
We had Released 102 fish by 12.00 noon with Dave successfully releasing number 100 but were running out of live baits. We had to run 3.5
miles away each time in search of bait, made macs but lost many sabiki rigs due to marlin taking them full with macs on. Making 5 runs back
to make bait each time took 2 hrs off our fishing time as the marlin, seals and dorado were splitting the bait balls up and took longer to make bait
as the afternoon progressed.
We fished our tournament tackle that that we used in the www.wcbrt.com with 14 Melton Custom rods GTN 40lb fitted with Shimano reels, Torsa's
and Trinidads spooled with 30 lb Spectra tuff line topped with Berkley high test and 8' 0 Eagle claw circle hooks using live bait and dead bait including
fresh Ballyhoo.
The bite was non stop wide open in a wide area on bait balls from the time we arrived , doubles, triples, and quads.
An absolutely amazing day of fun fishing with some great guys, we all live for days like this and certainly suggest anyone sitting there reading this
should get themselves down to Cabo and experience this for themselves.
At 5.10 pm every bat , bird, seal, porpoise and marlin disappeared , we tried to slow trol live and dead bait but the bite shut down as quick as it had
started. Left the area 6.30pm and back into Cabo by 7.45pm
Pictures attached are of Bait balls with breaking marlin all over, Dave releasing fish and the team. The CD and underwater footage and video will be edited
and online as soon as we can get it done. Dave the the team will post with additional pictures and comments.
179 Marlin and 1 sailfish released in one day - Cabo San Lucas Mexico - World record
Sailfish is more up the East Cape although there are some around Cabo and surrounding area's but not in the large numbers like they used to be due to the commercial pressure.
Generally we using very light drags and freespool on the fish then very light drags, if you button them down the fish really fight and dive down dogging you for a long time. This way the fish stay on the surface not realising they are even hooked yet and then back down fast and hard cutting them free at the leader.
The video shows one fish been released and then immdiately dive right back into the bait ball feeding as it has not been hurt or traumatized with a long fight time or heavy drag making it jump or sound.
In the morning the bite was a batch of smaller groups of fish 90lb - 120 and later in the afternoon we had some bigger models well over this
__________________ A release today is a fish tomorrow
RE: 179 Marlin and 1 sailfish released in one day - Cabo San Lucas Mexico - World record
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Finnseeker - 11/5/2007 10:38 AMThe video shows one fish been released and then immdiately dive right back into the bait ball feeding as it has not been hurt or traumatized with a long fight time or heavy drag making it jump or sound.
Phenomenal pics and story.
I would love the opportunity to jump in and watch the show below the water blue-planet style. More than the number of fish reeased, I would like to see the specticle of it all.
Do you feel that these were 179 unique fish or that some may have been caught more tham once?
No cast nets on board to net the bait balls and avoid the run for more baits (or is that illegal in MX or just not feasible?)
i wish that I was at a place in life where I could head to cabo b/c I heard about a hot bite.
RE: 179 Marlin and 1 sailfish released in one day - Cabo San Lucas Mexico - World record
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Lazy Bones - 11/5/2007 10:44 AM
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Finnseeker - 11/5/2007 10:38 AMThe video shows one fish been released and then immdiately dive right back into the bait ball feeding as it has not been hurt or traumatized with a long fight time or heavy drag making it jump or sound.
Phenomenal pics and story.
I would love the opportunity to jump in and watch the show below the water blue-planet style. More than the number of fish reeased, I would like to see the specticle of it all.
Do you feel that these were 179 unique fish or that some may have been caught more tham once?
No cast nets on board to net the bait balls and avoid the run for more baits (or is that illegal in MX or just not feasible?)
i wish that I was at a place in life where I could head to cabo b/c I heard about a hot bite.
We have 8 x Camera's going for 12 hrs of footage each thats 96 hrs we have to download then edit, on one bait ball we counted 21 marlin on the inderwater footage around teh baitball.
No no nets illegal for gringos but legal for MX , believe me we wanted to and it would have pushed us up and saved time making bait.
The bite is still on for those interested
__________________ A release today is a fish tomorrow
RE: 179 Marlin and 1 sailfish released in one day - Cabo San Lucas Mexico - World record
507 views and only 8 comments says something's amiss here. I don't believe it. I'll bet you double counted, at least once or twice. I saw this posted elsewhere and those folks aren't fooled either. 400 min = 179 striped marlin = 2.2 sec per fish. No way. I don't care if you're Superman - can't be done.
I've fished off tuna boats in the 60's and 70's where you double and triple teamed 200# tuna = after two hours, replacement crew took your place. You can't do it for any length of time. Striped marlin have shoulders as much as yellowfins do and they are tough, not like those little Guat sailfish. I seem to remember Ronnie Hamlin's crew boating and releasing 124 sails in one ten hour day. That's 12 sails an hour - those guys were beat.
RE: 179 Marlin and 1 sailfish released in one day - Cabo San Lucas Mexico - World record
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59022 - 11/6/2007 3:52 AM
507 views and only 8 comments says something's amiss here. I don't believe it. I'll bet you double counted, at least once or twice. I saw this posted elsewhere and those folks aren't fooled either. 400 min = 179 striped marlin = 2.2 sec per fish. No way. I don't care if you're Superman - can't be done.
I've fished off tuna boats in the 60's and 70's where you double and triple teamed 200# tuna = after two hours, replacement crew took your place. You can't do it for any length of time. Striped marlin have shoulders as much as yellowfins do and they are tough, not like those little Guat sailfish. I seem to remember Ronnie Hamlin's crew boating and releasing 124 sails in one ten hour day. That's 12 sails an hour - those guys were beat.
Anyone else Bullshipper or Capt. Josh to comment?
We having the video's edited and each release will be counted numbered as proof, you can believe what you want we did not double count, there are othes doing 71 and 60 fish days there still with charter boats.
None were tagged however we did release a fish that had a tag in it already. There was no time to tag fish as it would have taken to much time. For those who dont believe fish came off the leader here below I have freeze framed several shots so you can see the fish when hooked up were taking off and running
I have 8 x cameras that were running fulltime filming from different angles with 12 hrs of footage each thats 96 hrs of video been edited and produced backed up with another video camera and digitals. One underwater video image shows 21 striped marlin surrounding the bait ball and thats what we could see and count in the view of the underwater camera when we freeze framed it.
Our first hook up was 7.03am from our camera data recordings , I made an error with the mexican time change clocks so it was not 8 or so.
The tackle we used as follows:
The tackle was -
14 x 7' Melton casters, Trinidad 30's and Torsa 30's (Trinidads were the reel of choice with the high gear ratio and better casting freespool spooled with 65 lb. hi-vis braid worm knotted to 100 yards of 30 lb. line to 30' of 100 lb. regular clear Berkley Hi Test (we had a 1,000 yard spool sitting behind the chair) then snelled on through the bend side of the eye an Eagle Claw L2004EL 8/0 circle hook with the bait either just pinned through the mackerels nose or using Quick Rig bait clips. When we got down to 6 top 10 live baits we would have Alex Rogers and Jose use the live bait and Dave and his brother Steve would use the Quick Rig clips to horse ballyhoo. They would just cast the ballyhoo to the bait ball, let it sink for 3 seconds and then wind and then stall the bait when a marlin was trailing the casted ballyhoo for the bite.
We started off with 14 rigged casting outfits, broke two rods near the tip, dropped one in the drink. We would have Alex Roger's father-in-law stand behind the chair all day and as we would release a fish would hand Dennis the rod and he would re-rig. He was one hook snelling S.O.B. this day..lol! He was working on 4 outfits from the back of the chair all day long. As a rod was finished being re-rigged it was put in the rod holders in the gunnels next to the bridge and we would rotate through rods this way. As we would run out of bait and leave for the 3.5 mile run back to the bait at 35 knots we would re-spool the 100 yard top shots on as many outfits as we could get down before three guys would start making bait. We burned though four 50 packs of Eagle Claw 8/0 L2004EL hooks - 200 total for 180 billfish not bad - very few fish lost - a lot of times we got the hook back on fish.
Re: 179 Marlin and 1 sailfish released in one day - Cabo San Lucas Mexico - World record
so you hook em, use minimal drag so no pressure, chase them down an cut the leader before they know they are hooked? Sounds like record chasing more than fishing - but amazingly impresive nontheless congrats. That was the intent right - to break the record? Must have been some amazing boat driving. I'll be down there during Christmas - hopefully you save me one or two.
BTW, I'm bringing a Vanstaal 2500 custom spinning outfit. What do you recomend I fill it with, I'll be targeting stripe marlin only. I'm used to whites and blues only being from the gulf coast. I was thinking straight 30# mono or 60# braid.
Re: 179 Marlin and 1 sailfish released in one day - Cabo San Lucas Mexico - World record
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gator75 - 11/6/2007 9:38 AM
so you hook em, use minimal drag so no pressure, chase them down an cut the leader before they know they are hooked? Sounds like record chasing more than fishing - but amazingly impresive nontheless congrats. That was the intent right - to break the record? Must have been some amazing boat driving. I'll be down there during Christmas - hopefully you save me one or two.
BTW, I'm bringing a Vanstaal 2500 custom spinning outfit. What do you recomend I fill it with, I'll be targeting stripe marlin only. I'm used to whites and blues only being from the gulf coast. I was thinking straight 30# mono or 60# braid.
That is correct, we try to back down and retrieve the leader with little preassure and cut it a foot from the jaw. We wanted to try and see if we could do 100 as many boats were doing upper 70's releasing fish with localo charter boats doing 25 - 30 fish in some instances for the day with their tackle and less experinced crew. I buried the stern backing down yes and filled the cockpit with water.
The Saturday before we did 61 with anglers from Brazil and they bought 3 x Stella 10 000's. Great to cast for the person who cant cast a trinidad and for long casts but all 3 literally blew up with bits and pieces flying all over the place fighting these striped marlin. I can see the benifits for long casting on smaller models but when we had bigger fish they could not put the drag to them and then the reels exploded.
We put 30 lb Spectra tuff line hi vis yellow topped with berkley Hi test 30 lb clear and 90 lb Seagar fluro snelled to the 8/0 eagle claw circle hook. I have never fished with the 2500 but the striped marlin are alot bigger than your whites there and if you have gotten blues on your 2500 you will not have a problem with the striped marlin.
Swing by and see the video's and say hi when you do come down and if available take you out .
There will be plenty of fish in December and thats why we putting on another tournament and many boast are doing well over 60 fish days - not the small charter boats.
__________________ A release today is a fish tomorrow
Re: 179 Marlin and 1 sailfish released in one day - Cabo San Lucas Mexico - World record
thanks for the info.... much appreciated. If my Vanstaal explodes at least it has a lifetime warranty! I've caught a white and huge cobia and wahoos on it, but never would try to catch a blue on any spinning reel. I am booking a charter, can you PM me one you'd recommend?
No need for 60.. If a small charter boat can put me a couple I'll be happy. are the sea conditions snotty in Dec/Jan?
Re: 179 Marlin and 1 sailfish released in one day - Cabo San Lucas Mexico - World record
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gator75 - 11/7/2007 4:38 AM
thanks for the info.... much appreciated. If my Vanstaal explodes at least it has a lifetime warranty! I've caught a white and huge cobia and wahoos on it, but never would try to catch a blue on any spinning reel. I am booking a charter, can you PM me one you'd recommend?
No need for 60.. If a small charter boat can put me a couple I'll be happy. are the sea conditions snotty in Dec/Jan?
Shoot me an e-mail or your phone number and I will get you a very reasonable local boat with great skills and not to expensive. Dec/Jan is a great time and a lot of marlin. You can call Mini from Minerva's tackle also and compare.
__________________ A release today is a fish tomorrow
RE: 179 Marlin and 1 sailfish released in one day - Cabo San Lucas Mexico - World record
I dont think he's lying , i was reading some reports from the long range fleet out of san diego , and it seems they are having 100 marlin days for days in a row, for all the boats down there . They actually reported the marlin being a problem and moving from those areas in search of tuna instead. Read for yourself @ www.fishermanslanding.com check the current conditions.
RE: 179 Marlin and 1 sailfish released in one day - Cabo San Lucas Mexico - World record
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tarpon007 - 11/7/2007 5:02 PM
I dont think he's lying , i was reading some reports from the long range fleet out of san diego , and it seems they are having 100 marlin days for days in a row, for all the boats down there . They actually reported the marlin being a problem and moving from those areas in search of tuna instead. Read for yourself @ www.fishermanslanding.com check the current conditions.
500 Marlin Caught & Released on the Polaris Supreme
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500 Marlin Caught & Released on the Polaris Supreme
“What an absolutely, fantastic, unbelievable day,” wrote Tommy Rothery aboard his Polaris Supreme November 2. “We had more marlin than you can imagine. We hooked and are released over 220. The wahoo fishing was also fantastic. The group had a blast pulling in "crocodile" size wahoo. And we topped off the day with even bigger dorado than yesterday. The weather is good and we just had an awesome day on all three: wahoo, dorado and marlin.”
The next day Rothery wrote, “Well if we thought yesterday was phenomenal, today was even better. I know I'm repeating myself but the fishing was just great again on the wahoo and dorado. And yes, the marlin are still here and wanted to play. We have good weather and this is a nice way to end the trip. Great group, great fishing, great crew.”
__________________ A release today is a fish tomorrow
179 Marlin and 1 sailfish released in one day - Cabo San Lucas Mexico - World record 
one can only dream of such a day 
