Hong Kong Sportfishing: Tournament Winning Marlin

We had only been lines wet for 20 minutes yesterday when I spotted a large green current line next to the first wreck about 7 miles SSE of the NE tip of Lema. I turned and ran the edge of the line seeing flying fish and tuna and a the long portside rigger went off within 30 seconds of the turn.

Curly had just decended the ladder from the flybridge and jumped the rod nearly as quickly as the marlin broke for the horizon. After a 45 minute struggle on 30lbs line with a TLD20 that was acting up, crewman Van Sternbergh leaned over the transom to grab the leader and call it a release while I stayed on the flybridge to operate the boat.

The winning team aboard Reel Affinity consisted of capt. Hank, first mate Rebecca, "Curly" Chris Hirst, Van Sternbergh, Melissa Petros, Al Mok and Ilya Zaystev. Great job crew!