Facebook post: marlin caught at the canal
 

I'm sure some of you were at the ditch last night. Is this a joke? It's conceivable that a whitey got off track and ended up in close.

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I just watched a video on a customers cell phone of a guy catching a Marlin in the canal last night. I 'm not kidding I said a Marlin. Caught at the Murders row last night. I'll post pictures later when he sends them to me.
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wow -

Now story of a boat handoff to someone on shore.

update from Facebook ...now they're saying its a sailfish.

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There is video of him fighting the fish. Stranger things have happened
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Very cool! Mike commented it was on a plug but I don't think they've specified what yet.

One of these days someone will catch a fish that isn't posted on #^&#^&#^&#^&book immediately.
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Good for the guy that caught it must have been awesome. As far as the boat hand off rumors ..... There's always going to be someone
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Wow , what a lucky catch!

I'll believe it when I see video- Cloudy eyes make me wary.

No matter what it's a funny photo :uhuh:

It's real
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Would you need a permit for that even if it was handed to you at shore?

-spence

If Mike said it was caught in the canal, it was caught in the canal. Some people can be taken at their word. Mike is one of them.

Depends who you are. I wouldn't need a permit. I would have taken a pic and let it go though. I wouldn't know what the hell to do with it anyway. Pretty cool catch!
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You'd mount it.



Then you'd release it.

No doubt it's real- whether or not it was actually caught at the canal is my question. I trust Mike but I would like to see the video for myself.

Probably smart to keep incognito on it though- definitely illegal to keep...

Word from Mike was a customer came in this am with cell phone in hand and video of the actual catch! Is that good enough for you????:uhuh:

very unusual
way cool

Well done.
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That would be a strange cross breed
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so the guy kept it?

It would eat scup

The fish got tail wrapped on it's second run and despite attempts at resuscitation the fish died.

Vent first
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Any one find it odd of all the pic's posted where's the one with the angler and Fish
together? that would be the 1st photo I'd take any info on what it was hooked on lure or bait time of day or Night looking at the photo /

just looked Min size sailfish fork of tail to tip of bottom jaw.. 63 inches wouldn't think they would bust his chops for this accidental catch but ya never know

If you knew that it was illegal to keep, would you pose with it?

I probably wouldn't have even shown my bike in a picture.

So what did he do with it?? It was dead when he landed it just about drowning from being pulled backwards??? Did he weigh it? Measure it?? Anyone know that end of the story?? Also could he be fined?? I hope not....the guy caught the fish and it died what was he supposed to do with it??

I can see that spot mobbed this am with people and their Marlin/Sailfish gear hoping to hook up!! LOL!!

THAT was cool.

So the Rooks don't need to go out and catch a 50 on their first time but now they can catch a freikin' marlin. WOW

Looks like I need to start trolling ballys out of the harbor in the mornings.

Very cool catch.
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Being such a rare catch and a great story (even a blind squirrel sometimes gets a nut), I'd throw in some $$ to help pay his fine!!
Very cool....no matter what.

Video is up and it's pretty cool.

I think I'm jaded after realizing that at least half of the facebook fish photos I see are staged. Really lessens the accomplishments of the real catch. Good for these guys and kudos for taking the time to document it! Once in a lifetime for sure (well, unless you live in Australia)

Maybe not, at the rate everything has been changing.

Last September/ October I saw a mola way up river in the Merrimack on three separate nights.

So Nessie was in the itch all along............
 

That was a real treat on my first morning home from Quebec. Good for whoever the mystery man is, and he shoud remain a mystery if he is smart I guess.


You really need a permit for them?

To the 10 guys in the background telling him what to do STFU next time someone is fighting a fish.

Yep guy did a hell of job fighting it around the Pylons so many things could go wrong with that situation
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650 yards of braid?? How wide is the ditch?

That's a lot of $$ and what do you do after you've cut out a few knots and retied several hundred times, rip and replace the remaining 575 yards?

Sweet catch! Fighting that fish in the ditch around the poles would definitely have given me the shaky wobbly knee feeling for sure.

Has anyone actually seen the fish? I go back and forth between white marlin and sail. I don't think he'll get fined. It looks like you only need a federal HMS permit to fish for tuna in state waters:

To fish recreationally in federal waters for any Atlantic HMS, and within the waters of most Atlantic coastal states for Atlantic tunas, vessel owners must have a valid federal fishing permit for their vessel.

Federal length regs for sails are 63" fork length (excluding the bill) and 66" for white marlin. Without an actual measurement of the fish, I would think it would be impossible to determine if it was short.

Massachusetts adopts the Federal regulations for state waters.

Just reading that it could be a pending world record for sailfish from shore.