Blue Marlin Sashimi...... CSL BCS (non yak)

Looks like a billfish! Or maybe a mega wahoo?!

So, Antonio, are you counting youself as one of the "biggest fish of your life"? If so, what type of fish would you be?
Also...lucky it was just a crappy eagle claw baitholder hook hahaha! 
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looks like a suckerfish....the big one hooked in the leg
way to go Antonio...looks like lots of fun!

I hope you got the hook extraction on video. We won't make fun of you screaming like a little girl either........ok, yea we will. 
Looking forward to the full report and more detailed version at Albion.

ahh bro i bet you he was squealing and crying up a storm.

Working on it......just got home and cracked my first beer of the day.
My liver was twitching 

Look at the scale upper left

Wow...that's a lot of meat!  Thanks for the teasers Antonio.

90 kilos in the ice chest.....coming from Mexico.......

We were about 27 miles out during choppy seas at the 180 spot. Looking for porpoises and the yellowfin tunas that had been found in the vicinity the previous day. When all of the sudden..........

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!

I quickly grabbed the rod out of the holder and forcefully set the hook with three full, solid jerks. Jaime yelled at me " dale mas cabron it's a blue marlin!! " so I yanked the rod hard three more times firmly setting the hook into the beast.

In a matter of seconds Jaime had the stand up belt on me and I had slipped the gimbal into the slot.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!
The fish made a 100 yard run out and away from the boat then sounded down about 100 feet. I turned off the clicker and slowly started pumping him up to the boat. Methodically I pumped the rod up and cranking the reel on the way down to gain line on fish. After about 10 mins I told Jaime " I don't think he knows he's hooked yet "

At the 15 min mark I finally started to see color and my first blurred glimpse of the fish.  That's when it bolted again straight under the boat peeling off about 150 yards. As i watched the rod double over all I could do is hold on for dear life and pray.

I looked up at the horizon and saw a silhouette of a massive fish jumping out of the water about 200 feet away thrashing its bill back and forth. I yelled at Jaime "look there's another one!" He replied "no pendejo it's your fish!"

I watched in awe as the Marlin Azul feverishly danced across the surface.
Each majestic and powerful leap covered 15 to 20 ft distances at heights of about 10 ft. The brute force would cause violent explosions on the waters surface when it came crashing down after each leap.

At the 30 min mark I got him to the boat for a second time and as soon as I saw color he was off to the races one more time.

By now I was sweating profusely under the scorching Baja sun and mid 90 degree temps. I could feel my lat mussels in my back flexing like I was doing wide grip pull ups. My biceps were engorged and the veins in my arms were swollen. Fatigue was setting in and I asked Jaime for some water since I was feeling dehydrated and was afraid of cramping.

I downed the ice cold bottle of water and felt rejuvenated. Jaime asked if I wanted the shoulder/back harness to give my arms some relief and I declined.
I wanted to feel the shear power of this animal.... I wanted it to be "Mano a Mano"

The battle continued on and at the 45 min mark I had him to the boat for the 3rd time. Once again the monster fish peeled off another couple hundred feet of line. By now I kept having visions of the fish breaking off. These thoughts were racing in and out of my head constantly. My arms were killing me and I had to keep switching hands because it felt like rigamortise was setting into my fingers in the form of claws so I had to constantly straighten them out.

At the one hour mark I was nearing the fish closer and closer and felt that color was nearby. When all of the sudden the line went completely limp. So many thoughts raced though my mind in a split second and the only word that bellowed out of my mouth was....NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

I frantically reeled and reeled and soon realized that the fish was still on and had apparently made a run for the boat. I thanked god numerous times as I held on dearly to the doubled over rod as the fish sounded another 100 ft below the boat.

75 mins into the fight I finally had the beast closer than the previous 4 attempts. It circled the boat on the surface numerous times before Jaime was able to grasp the leader. He then firmly grabbed ahold of the bill raised its head out of the water and commenced savagely clubbing him about a couple dozen times in the head.

Jaime tried pulling the fish up onto the panga but was unable to do so alone. I put the rod down and grasped one of its pectoral fins and we both simultaneously heaved it onto the deck. The massive fish tail and bill was spilling over the sides of the boat as he flopped around dangerously on the deck.

Once on the boat Jaime and I jumped around laughing and hugging like a couple little kids.
We then took and few pics, covered the fish with some damp towels and started heading back to port. Since we were 27 miles out in choppy conditions it was going to take a couple of hours to get back.

Jaime thought that we should fast troll back in hopes of possibly landing a wahoo.

Just 25 mins on our journey back........... Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!
To be continued........

Wow 

You're bringing some steaks to Albion right??? 

Damnnnnnn Antonio. That's a big ass fish

Ho lee fuk!

love it!  fish of a lifetime

Nice fish and way to go on the long fight. My 120 pound sailfish gave up after 15 minutes and came to the boat. My tuna gave me an hours worth of hell before we got it to the gaff. Now that was a fun fight. 

Hells yeah bro! Congrats on a hell of a battle and a badass fish!

That is just a Awesome Antonio! I don't think i ever had blue marling before

Thanks for the battle report CongratulationBro!