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Mundane Mondays

Monday’s are the worst. We’ve had a pretty cold and rainy weekend here and I felt we could all use a good steamy monday morning video. In this video Julie Klaz goes deep sea fishing with Captain Geza on the Akua in the waters off Kona in search of mahi-mahi and marlin.

This video could be considered borderline NSFW, there’s no nudity, but some interesting camera angles. Not that I’m complaining.

Cindy Garrison Gets Wild!

Meet Cindy Garrison, big game fisherman woman and host of the ESPN Outdoors hunting program, Get Wild! With Cindy Garrison.

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My First Marlin – by Rachel Larratt

My First Marlin by Rachel Larratt

As all deep sea fishing trips begin, we were up bright and early. It was almost 10 am as we reached the dock carrying loads of beer, margarita supplies and ample amounts of sandwich ingredients. The plan for the day was to head out from Marina Palmira in La Paz out to the area around Espirito Santo. We’d spend some of the day fishing and then a few hours snorkeling with the Sea Lions at the north end of the island.

Our boat for the day was the 38 foot Mediterranean “El Ganador” that we rented from Desea Adventures. It came crewed with our Capitan and our deck hand David. We settled in on the bow with our breakfast for the 45 minutes ride out to the open water.

Marlin Fishing LureDue to the fact that we’re not really fishermen and that we couldn’t be persuaded to arrive at the dock between 6-7am, we’d missed out on live bait. Our bait for the day would be brightly colored squid shaped lures. In total we had 5 rods out in the water. After trolling for about 15 minutes, I watched as a marlin leapt into the air. The zip of the line was unforgettable! My shipmates turned and saw just in time as the marlin landed back into the water. The line went silent. We all knew we lost it.

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