130 ish from memory? Dean hard on the sticks, caught a bunch this day with the weather gods smileing on us. Watching the switch and tease method up close from the best was spectacular!

F**k that fish launched!

Awesome Jas.... Best vids Ive seen for a long time. 

Did you not have any wire on the stickbaits?

well done titahi, so jealous that is one trip i just have to do.

Is trolling a stickbait and hooking a marlin considered to be "fair" ?  :-)   I thought for it to be a proper stick-bait marlin capture, you'd have to actually cast the stick at the fish, and work the hook-up yourself, not use the boat to troll it.
I mean, trolling poppers I have got a sailfish in the sollies, but I never thought of that as "poppering" a sailfish. (although have had and seen several strikes while doing so).
That is a real bugger about the line popping like that Titahi. That really gets irksome! And, with those lures, expensive! :-)
What boat were you on? I know you have no doubt described everything in a post, but I must have missed it....
 

Amazing footage Titahi, got to love those wahoo for there blistering speed, that stick face on the stick bait was a amazing effort !

That was my muddled way of putting it... was the lure cast at fish or blind trolled... it was cast, so there ya go, a genuine stick-bait worked and hooked fish. Coolio....