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This tale comes from the Keehi Boat Club of Hawaii . 

Sonny of the Keehi Boat Club sent us this photo of Elton Choy and his 451 lb Marlin.  Elton and his nephew and first mate Bradly managed to haul in this catch on June 5th.   Ironically, had they been entered in the Ahi Fever Fishing Tournament that day, they would have won the Marlin category.  Pretty exciting day for this fishing duo.

Elton also recently caught an 11 lb Shibi to win $713 in the Pure Jackpot Fishing Tournament, a 39 lb Ono, a 41 lb Mahi Mahi and, according to Sonny, a 110 lb bride (he got married on May 15th).  Not a bad fishing month for Elton.

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This tale comes from Kurt of Fastlabels

I got a true story for you.  A bud of my has a place on the Lake and his neighbor runs trout lines for catfish.  After returning from Florida with a 'on ice' sand shark he caught he wanted to play a joke on the neighbor.  At night he went to the lines and hooked the shark and later told the neighbor that come morning he wanted to tag along for the line check.  The neighbor pulled up the shark and about fell overboard upon viewing the creature, after composing himself he figured he been set up.    He said, "goes to prove ya them damn sharks will even swim to the Midwest for my homemade sink bait "
This tale comes from Tim McQuaid of Hawaii . 

Tim wrote:On May 8, 1999 just after the sun had risen we headed 184 degrees off the #1 buoy at Pearl Harbor in my 19' Bluewater.  2 and 3/4ths hours later we came upon the HH buoy and made a 90 degree on the back side of it and
headed west towards Kaena Point.  Approximately 15 minutes later we made a right turn as we were going to turn and go back towards the buoy, when about 5 minutes into the turn we had a knock down on the pole in the back pole holder on the starboard side.  I turned and asked if that was a fish, to which my friends replied we think so.  We gave it the ol' 5 count and
just as line started screaming off the reel we throttled up.  We then slowed the boat down so we could begin the fight.  With three of us on the boat, we began - I was driving and the other guy, Ron Gower (first time on the boat) started clearing lines and Tim McBride started fighting the fish. Ron said the reel he was working on wouldn't reel any more and Tim glanced
over at it and said it was bunched, so I told Ron to take the wheel and I grabbed the pole took a quick look and decided to
handline in the rest of the line.
da_big_one.gif (148471 bytes) We finally got that line cleared and I went to clear lines on the other side of the boat and as I was reeling in another marlin took that lure and almost at the same time Tim's fish came across that line so we thought at first the lines were just crossed until ten minutes later when Tim's line with pole bent over double was going off the starboard side of the boat and my line with pole bent over double was going off to the port side of the boat.  I had Ron come take the pole I was working and I took the wheel.  Five minutes later, the marlin on Ron's pole broke the line.  Tim was working his marlin hard and at one time it had about 90% of the line on the reel out but Tim worked it back onto the reel. About two and a half hours later, Tim's thumb locked up on him and he couldn't reel any more so he asked me to take the pole and he took the wheel.  30 minutes later we brought him to the boat and told Ron to grab the leader.  The first time he grabbed it he said he saw that big ol' eye stareing at him and he just knew it was going to pull him over so he let go.  The next time we got him to the boat Ron got the leader and the gaff into him.  He was pretty much worn out by then so we did not have much of a struggle with him and got the big meat hook tied off to the cleat into him with no problem. 

Then the real fun began as we tried to figure out how to get this monster into the boat.  Needless to say, it did not happen.  We tied him off to the cleats on the starboard side and headed in.  At the scales this Marlin weighed in at 667 pounds and he was 15.5 feet long.  On the way in, we had some small lures out and caught a 17 lb mahimahi.  Picture of the 667 pound marlin that did not get away is attached.  Oh yeah, I have not told you the amazing part of this story and that is the marlin was caught on a Penn Long Beach 68 reel with 40 pound test and a Penn Senator 4/0 rod.  If I was not there to see it, I would have as hard a time believing it as everyone we tell this to does.   Hope everybody out there has tight lines and the kind of luck we did on 8 May.
Thanks for a great sight, I have learned volumes from it and gotten great enjoyment from it as well, Keep up the good work.

Tim McQuaid

Mahalo Tim for your great story!!

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