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we release him and get the spread back out and i'm the next guy up. it takes a couple of hours but we finally see another marlin in the spread. he's on the teaser and the mate drops a bait back and he hits it but misses the hook. I grab the other pitch rod and start dropping the bait back and weaving it through the spread and boom - i'm tight and the thing goes ballistic. starts tailwalking over other baits but doesn't get tangled thankfully. 15 minutes later, we get him boatside and I get a chance to release my first marlin. we missed 1 more and head to the tilefish grounds for some meat. takes 2 drifts and we get a limit of blueline tilefish. its a lot like our codfishing except they use 5 pound weights. we get back to the dock at 4 and there are a hundred people at the dock waiting to see what got caught that day. a crew of guys show up and take your fish and process it for you and 20 minutes later you have a bag of fillets to bring home. pretty slick operation they have down here.
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