First big game fishing experience
January 28, 2017 Le Morne 5 photos
Dolphin (Mahi Mahi)
Dolphin (Mahi Mahi)

Trip Summary

With calm seas and Marlins around in numbers and not many schools of bonitos around we started the trip with our Malaysian customers with the idea of lure trolling for big fishes.An hour into the trip we got our first marlin strike.Mr Shan was very happy to see the magnificent blue marlin do his acrobatic moves.The fish got free quickly.As our customers wanted to get some fish to bring for their dinner,we moved to a FAD where we hooked 4 Dorado's and lost one of them.It was our clients' biggest catch of their lives as they were used to catches not exceeding 2 KGS.The biggest of the Dorado's weighed 7 kgs.We were resetting the lures when the reel on the side started screaming and our second marlin started rushing towards the boat and got the hook off its mouth.Half an hour after that we saw another marlin following the short corner lure before attacking the short rigger lure and switch to the long rigger lure.It did snap the tag line rubber bands without a proper hookup though.Nice experience overall. We ended our day with 3 Dorado's caught ,1 lost and 3 marlin strikes.
Billy Lamarque
Le-morne, Mauritius
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