This being Brads first time wearing a wetsuit and having just heard my story on the drive up, it takes a few minutes in the water before he is comfortable amongst the kelp and dirty water. After beach launching the boat we dodge surfers and punch out through the head high waves and head to a rocky headland a few miles distant. As we’re bouncing along the road enroute to the beach my Aussie friend is telling us that this boat tends to sink so just pull it up on the rocks if she starts to go. So with that story in mind Brad and I arrive at my friends place in a small town a few hours up the coast and hitch his dilapidated old Land Cruiser to an equally gorgeous14 ft tinnie. Not my day.īack in the boat I beg to make another drift but now no one wants to get back in the water because they tell me as I was fighting the marlin the 2.5 ft dorsal fin of a Great White was accompanying me in my quest to land the marlin. mono before turning and charging straight at my chest, stopping and turning so close I can almost reach out and touch him before disappearing into the depths with his comrade. 15 minutes and a half a mile later another marlin is swimming back and forth behind the wounded one and cuts the 400 lb.
As I come to within 10 feet I pull the trigger and watch as the shaft penetrates through his broad shoulders and the fish shudders before taking off with me in tow. marlin comes in to look at the Flasher and I dive to intercept him. I urged them to make one more drift and within minutes of returning to the water a 400+ lb. OK it’s yours.Ī few hours later everyone except me had seen Marlin and been unable to get shots off and now they all wanted to leave to go hunt Yellowtail.
animal turn, bare its 3 inch teeth and scream at him underwater. Without a second thought the Aussie dives down and pokes the beast in the neck only to have the 1000 lb. As he’s stringing the fish I’m looking down into the dark green water and see a gigantic shape materialize from directly below and feel my heart sink at the realization that this is it, I’ve been in this cold ass water 5 minutes and here comes what we fear the most, a Great White Shark, what was I thinking! Just as I am preparing to scream like a little girl the entire form comes into view and the Largest Sea Lion ever zooms in and latches its jaws onto the fish. As we drove I told Brad of my trepidation at getting into the 60 degree water and then within seconds watching as my dive partner dives down and shoots a 20 lb. Only a week earlier I had been invited down to dive a reef a few hours south of Sydney that rose from a few hundred feet to within 80 and held hoards of baitfish, Yellowtail Kingfish (California Yellowtail) and what I was really after, Black Marlin. So went my buddy Brad Thornbrough and I’s trip to the East Coast of Australia this year and despite these minor annoyances we managed to have the time of our lives and spear some great fish along the way.Īfter celebrating my birthday for a few days longer than we should have, we headed North from Sydney in my newly purchased 1984 Toyota Corona Station wagon wondering if the bargain price of $1100 AUD was a hint that the reliability of our chariot could be in question. When you add angry Kangaroos, Great White Sharks, boats that don’t float and cars that should be sunk it can be next to impossible. Trying to get people to come diving with you can be hard enough, but trying to get them come back for a second time can be even harder.
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