Our offshore trip last week ended up with a Grand Slam after Guy Harvey and John Graves identified one of our white marlin as a roundscale spearfish from the photographs. This past weekend, we did it again. It was the same type of slam. Roger Burnley caught his first blue marlin. Smaller than our last one but he caught it on a TLD 30. His 200-pound fish was about all he wanted on that rig. Wes Blow caught his first ever marlin (white). I caught our second spearfish in a week. It was my first. Having seen a couple now, there is no mistaking these things. Lit up marlin and sailfish are beautiful. These spearfish positively glow. The roundscale has very distinct scales. The close up of the spearfish head is actually of Hunter Southall’s fish from last weekend. It shows the scales well. We brought my fish into the boat. The anal vent of the spearfish is well forward of the anal fin. In the white marlin, the distance is about 2 inches. To round out the weekend, Richie Moore caught his first billfish (white). We all went swimming back at the dock. A Grand Slam was not enough for my crew. We stopped at the South Tower on the way in for some amberjack action. We did catch some small dolphin for dinner this week. Last week, we were just south of the Norfolk Canyon. This weekend, we were down at the Triple 0s. Both weekends, we were between 50 and 100 fathoms. For some information about the roundscale spearfish: https://healthygrinsportfishing.com/?page_id=310
