9/8/2007 White Marlin Blitz

Had the pleasure of fishing with some good friends on the wired up yesterday to get in on the awesome White Marlin bite happening east of the Norfolk Canyon....Left out of Rudee inlet at about 0500 with just a hint of a swell from Gabrielle down south and headed to the 500-800 fathom mark just a tad bit south of the Norfolk canyon. Pulled back the throttles at around 0745 to beautiful water, gentle 3 foot rollers and what looked like the entire Ocean City fleet bearing down on us. Get a good white marlin spread out and commence to work the area.spot a cutter working the left teaser and he quickly moves off to our big bait islander with hoo and suicides the fish, as I'm clearing the left side I see a bill swatting at the right long rigger dink bait..feed him..he gone, comes back feed him again, he gone...drop back and he picks it up again and I finally get him to come tight....Don's fish is on the 80 so as he cranks his fish in mine is steadily pulling line off the tld20...finally get a good release on Don's fish and Neal (captain) slams the boat in reverse and commences to help me get line back on the fish....got a good shot of the fish airborne before the release...so we're 2 for 2 by 0945....2nd pack of whites comes into the spread and smacks around everything..I feed the right long dink bait again and hook up....this is a hoss of a white and quickly gets me into the backing before everything is cleared and we can back down on the fish....get a good release on this fish also...that's 3 ...have a couple of window shoppers that didn't come tight....then left long gets whacked and Don feeds the fish and hooks up...release 4...another suicide on the left Islander/hoo combo which don cranks in again on the 80...Awesome bite down there....boats from ocean city to Oregon inlet were fishing and catching yesterday...I don't know how many packs of whites I saw cruising/cutting through the water...glad I got out there before this storm hits...don't know what the waters' gonna do after this blow...but I can't wait to get out there and find out !.....tight lines....Bob