Back to back 900lb ++ pound Black Marlin
Fresh news in from Captain Duarte Rato on Bazaruto Island just as the season is getting into full swing…
After Louwtjie´s giant Black Marlin estimated at 900 +++ pounds on the 15th October we had two lay days and then started with our good friend Carl Jankowitz on the 19th. Carl is no stranger to big fish and amongst many released he as also weighted two granders with us, one which weighted 1107 lbs and the other 1098 lbs. But his last really big fish had been three years ago and he sure was ready for another. We started the day with a 27kg YFT, followed by a 18kg wahoo and some more smaller YFT in between. However it was Marlin we were searching for and just after 1pm a great fish inhaled the long left lure. This most magnificent fish proceed to gibe us an hour of great entertainment with some spectacular jumps a few of which on the leader. The fight then went down and dirty with Carl having to push the pre set on the 80W all the way and fought this fish on absolute maximum drag for the next hour. Finally after a 2-hour fight we had the estimated 900-pound fish by the boat for a release…
