Myrmidon Continues to Deliver

With perfect weather conditions on the water last weekend Jon & Greg Millard aboard Cruise Craft together with Mark and Jan Parkes and myself (Talina) aboard Wade Medill's boat Screamer made the 70 mile trip out to Myrmidon. With a quick stop off at Faraday for a quick jig, both boats were fortunate enough to start the weekend with some nice Coral Trout including Jan's 8kg whopper. With dinner in the esky the troll lines went out & we made our way over to Myrmidon. With beautiful clean water and small yellowfin schools in plague porportions our expectations were high but we had to wait until late Saturday Afternoon until we experience some action with a a small 100lb Black Marlin free jumping not far from the boat, so as we pointed Screamer in that direction it wasn't long before the fish appeared in our lure pattern. He managed to pull both lines out of the riggers before he dissapeared not to be seen again. Both boats enjoyed a swim back in the lagoon before experiencing a
traditional Myrmidon sunset. Sunday and the perfect weather continued and just before departing Jon offered us a scad that he had caught on Saturday, and as we did not have any bait aboard Screamer and we were relying totally on lures, Jan jumped at the chance to weave her magic and rigged up a beautiful swimming marlin bait. With the big gear out we started trolling back to Faraday and it wasn't long before one of the 50's went screaming off (the one with the scad on it) & we shortly realised Parkesy had an estimated 200lb Black Marlin on the end. After a surprisingly quick 10 min fight the tag went in and we were ecstatic to see him swim away in perfect condition. Sorry about the photos but this was the best I could do with the video camera while I juggled the tag pole as well!