Blue Sunday

We went offshore with Dr. John Graves to target white marlin. He has a bunch of pop-up satellite tags to deploy. We failed miserably. We only saw two whites and did not get either of them. We did have a good by-catch though. We spent Saturday night at the Norfolk Canyon trolling for bigeye tuna. We had two bites. One was on a teaser. The other ate the right bait. Preston Sparrer fought the fish stand-up with belt and harness. It weighed in at 188 pounds. At first light Sunday morning, we went on the troll for white marlin. We could have loaded the boat with dolphin and we still got a good catch of them, while trying to avoid them. Dr. Graves caught the largest at 31 pounds. While we did not catch a white, a nice blue marlin ate one of our white marlin baits. Hunter Southall caught the blue on a little circle hook and light tackle. We did get a “little” science done when we put out the Clark spoons to see if the young-of-the-year bluefin tuna were around. We caught a lot of little blackfin tuna. We did manage to catch two baby bluefin for the scientists.