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Trigger
 
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| Blue Marlin - - they will fight you to their death, wiring a green one puts the wireman's life in peril, they can tear up the best tackle, they have speed, make long runs, jump, sound -they do it all. Agree - it's subjective. I've caught most all Atlantic Offshore Gamefish w/ the exception of a Bluefin, but my vote is the Blue. Garbo, great questions High Cotton - if your Avatar is part of your crew I want to sign up!
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| TARPON,COBIA,(SLOT)REDS,POMPS,MAHI'S,TROUT I NEED TO GO OFF SHORE!
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Trigger
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| Im gonna have to go with any marlin species. Like a few others have mentioned when fishing for marlin it takes a well rounded crew to be successful. Ive spent hours upon hours staring at the spread watching for anything out of the ordinary then in a matter of milla seconds to see a big girl come up and start slapping at a bait then run across the spread and hammer another one and in a matter of seconds peel off a spool on a 80w!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow I haven't found a better rush! Once the fish is hooked its up to the Capt then the angler and finally the deck crew to wire and tag the fish. Once all that happens its great feeling of success to watch such a magnificent creature swim away to fight another day!! Marlin it is!!
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| Mine was a 85 lb ling on 20 lb mono, 1hr 30min fight and a hole lot of excitement at the gaff.I'll never forget that day.
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I went to school in PA and I fished for small mouth in small streams and rivers with ultralites 4lb test line or on a fly rod with very small heddon torpedos and Pop-R. They are a GREAT fighting fish that will dazzle you with some arial displays. Ive never caught a bill fish and Ive had a tarpon look at a bait thats about it. But im sure they are a blast!!!
Tight Lines!!!
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Xanadu (10/19/2007)
catching something big enough to eat a child or even kill you is the key. Plus, its a team affair as opposed to light tackle fishing.All the rest is just finger food helping you kill time.
gonna have to agree with a lot of what you said right there. however, because i have never caught (i have wired a few though) a blue, i'm gonna have to go with a yellerfin tuna...at least one that definately does NOT want to be caught. a solid bruiser yellerfin will wear 99% of anglers out. any lesser man passes the rod off. they're so much fun on spinning tackle as well. and i like the team effort you mentioned on the blues (and tuna), makes ALL inshore fish look like a bunch of pansies. that's what the rush is all about-strapped to a fish that is 10fold more stronger than you, and can straight up drown you if you were in the water with him. or kill you with his damn bill.
I personally have the biggest vendetta against inshore species. Sure, they can be VERY challenging to catch. Hell, I have sat off my dock on Ono every weekend for about 9 weekends now and caught ZERO of the hundreds of speckled trout we have swimming under our lights. Clear water, dirty water, it doesn't matter. Now I haven't used live shrimp yet, and I heard that is the ticket, but now we're derailing the thread a bit. There is just NO fight in inshore species at all. I've caught bull reds and most other inshore species and it's just straight up boring to fight them. Tarpon are ok on spinning tackle, but still no damn yellerfin.
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