Marlin goes berserk, attacks press boat during Hawaii tournament
Posted by yangga.8Aug 6
The top story so far during the week-long Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament is the enormous marlin that got away, but not before a wild struggle that included an attack on the press boat, providing the event photographer with the photo opportunity of a lifetime.
Jon Schwartz was aboard the Chiripa off Kailua-Kona, waiting for one of the teams to hookup, when the marlin struck one of two lures his crew was trolling behind the boat.
It was late afternoon and tournament action had slowed. Schwartz, according to his blog, “was sacked out on the couch, my four cameras strewn across the floor of the salon,” when he awoke to the sound of line screaming from the reel.
“We’d been pulling those things for the past two days with no hits, and I basically forgot they were there,” he wrote, in reference to the lures.
What he thought might be a tuna turned out to be a Pacific blue marlin estimated to weigh more than 550 pounds. It leaped and started “careening through the air in every conceivable direction, throwing massive walls of water with every move of its huge tail, and leaving car-size holes in the water when it came crashing down,” Schwartz recalled.
Source: http://www.grindtv.com
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