North is where its at

On Saturday 8^th December at 5:30, Wayne, Lionel, Alex, Neville and I left Richards Bay harbour on “Galavant”, looking for marlin. We headed just north of the harbour and set lines in 70m of water. There was a nice colourline and a temperature increase of over a degree. We worked out to 600m then back to 200m for most of the morning without a touch. From 10am, the reports on the radio indicated that there were a few fish to the north. Several boats hooked fish but most unfortunately threw the hooks.

We slowly worked our way north against the current but did not make much headway. We were not too concerned as we had found some life in the 500-600m depth. There were a few birds, flying fish and pilot whales so we were pretty confident that sooner or later something would happen. The turn of the tide came and went with no action. With the day nearing an end, we moved in shallow onto the 100-200m ledge. As we turned, the right short rigger popped end the reel ran a bit. It was definitely not a billfish, so we left the other lines out while Lionel brought the fish in. It turned out to be a wahoo of around 14kg. Our day ended without another touch. Hopefully the next trip will be our turn to get a nice fish...