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Galapagos Fishing Report The Marlin on Fly School April 11, 2008
Greetings from the Galapagos:
Danny
Cline and I joined Captain Braden Escobar his two mates and Captain
Alan Star aboard Blue for the third day of our Galapagos Marlin on Fly
adventure. We left the dock at 7:00 AM, and began fishing at 9:00 AM at
Rosa Blanco bank, with partly cloudy hot weather with some showers in
the area. The bank was alive with sea lions, dolphins, whales, lots of
birds and bait and of course lots of big Striped Marlin.
I
think that the marlin were gorging themselves on the abundance of bait
in the area, as we raised 31 marlin during our eight hours of fly fishing fro marlin, however we only teased in less
than 10 and only got three bites on the fly. I got my first bite at
about 10:15 AM when a 160 pounder teased into my casting range, and
gave me a good shot. I made a good cast, placing the fly just behind
that Marlin; he then turned and pounced on my fly. This battle lasted
about five minutes, wit six or seven jumps before that great striped
marlin leapt out of the water, whacked my 16 pound tippet with his
bill, and broke the tippet.
My
first Striped Marlin hooked on this trip to the Galapagos
About
an hour later I hooked a 275 pounder on 20 pound tippet, it looked like
the hook slipped out of the marlins mouth on a jump and hooked her on
the bill. She fought me very hard for 25 minutes and never jumped
again, then all of the sudden, while I was gaining on her, the hook
came out and she was gone.
Danny
Cline's second Striped Marlin on fly from 3 bites in three days!
Next
I handed the rod to Danny and five minutes later he hooked up to a 180
pound, red hot Striped Marlin. Danny didn't make any mistakes and after
a 26 minute battle Danny Cline had landed his second Striped Marlin on
Fly in two days. After 3 days of fly fishing
aboard the vessel “Blue†with Captain Braden Escobar, in San Cristobal,
Galapagos, Danny and I together have had 5 Striped Marlin eat our
flies, and we released 2 of the 5 bites. This place is awesome, we have
seen over 50 striped marlin during our first three days of fishing, I
am sure it will get even better tomorrow. More Reports to follow, I
sure love this job!
Regards:
Jake
Captain Jake Jordan
Jake Jordan's Fishing Adventures
PO Box 309 (US Mail)
223 Lemonwood Drive (Freight)
Havelock NC 28532
252-444-3308 Home/Office
305-872-6060 Cell
www.jakejordan.com
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