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(FIELD AND STREAM) – Hawaii angler Jason Freitas just pulled off the holy grail of saltwater kayak fishing by catching a black marlin from his kayak. According to an Instagram post, Freitas, of Pahoa, Hawaii, was fishing in 240 feet of water using live “opelu” or mackerel for bait. He was targeting yellowfin tuna and wahoo when he heard a large splash behind his kayak.
“I turned and looked, and I saw one marlin jumping but none of my poles were going off,” Freitas told Hawaii News Now. “I kind of just looked at it, grabbed my pole, reeled it in, and I watched the slack of my line slowly come across toward the fish that hooked onto it.” The marlin immediately began towing him several miles offshore in a fight that would last for nearly four hours. Freitas had to play the fish carefully because he was using 40-pound test fluorocarbon line.
“This bad boy took me for a ride of a lifetime. At points, it dragged me [at speeds of] up to seven miles per hour,” Freitas wrote on Instagram. “I was definitely not prepared for what I had just experienced.”
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