Damon Heath (George)) got a striped marlin on Friday. Third fish solo, and out of a little boat, first one was from an inflatable few years ago now , last two (this year and last year) from his trusty 14 foot fryran dinghy powered by a 30 hp tiller steer yamaha two stroke. He backed his truck into weigh station friday evening with fish on board to weigh in at 88kg.
Damon makes his own lures and runs those. Hopefully might make a few more and sell one or two soon. As I'd certainly like to run one.
Damon reported lots of action Thurs and Friday -had 3 fish in gear at one point pulling string, before he got his fish later in arvo. The marlin were around some skippie schools north of nites. Unfortunately coms cleaned out the skippies on Friday arvo -making for slower fishing on Saturday.
Last year at Matauri they (him and a mate in his trusty 14 fryran dinghy and mate (Dave) in a 13ft 6 stabi)tagged two strippes and lost a blue on 15kg, and caught a heaps of mahis. So latest fish is no fluke, and proves good timing and doing things right gives you an excellent chance whatever the boat size.
I'm up for 10 day sojourn from next Friday, including the One base. Hopefully coms stay away a bit as sounds like was hotting up. Little boat called Obsession, if you want to say gidday.