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Bill,

I see that Bobby Bevan and the boys seem to make on your site quite a bit.  I hope that you can squeeze this in as well.  Post the pictures if you would like, I sent you a few to get pop's best side....oh he doesn't have one, it is the Tedesco curse!!

boat: "TOMMY T"
place: Little Torch Key, Florida
Captain: Tom Tedesco
first mate/ co-captain: Tim Tedesco
Mate: Donna Tedesco (Tim's wife)
Fishing for the day: Dr. Tommy "Murt" and Elaine Murtaugh of Manahawkin, NJ

It was a friendly trip so the fishing order was quite loose.

The day was flat and hot, which allowed Capt. Tom to get the boat on the fish.  After driving for a little over an hour we got to the grounds.  We were 45 mile off the coast of Little Torch and 45 mile off the coast of Cuba.  The water was 81 degrees and we were in about 2100 feet of it.  Tim started rigging (frozen bally hoo on Williamson lures) the baits and Donna was putting them out.

When the last bait was let half way out a bill fish came in and hit it immediately.  At first look Tom and Tim thought it was a sailfish.  Tim grabbed the rod out of the holder and let it free spool, the fish came and took the bait without a second look.  As soon as it hit the second time Tom and Tim knew it was a much larger fish, and it looked to be a marlin.  Well after about 30 seconds and two hundred yards of line the fish surfaced and did a beautiful tail walk.

The Marlin had the hefty Penn 50 screaming, after it dropped down and swam back to leave another two hundred yards the fish came up and did another tail walk for the anglers.  Tim fought the fish for a good 45 minutes.  He jump a few more times and dove several times as well just to let them know he could still fight.

When the fish finally got to the boat you could see that he was exhausted Captain Tom quickly got on a pair of gloves and attempted to get the hook out and put the fish in position to revive him.  The hook was out and Tom had a hold of the bill.  Tim put the boat in gear and started to revive him.  40 minutes later and the marlin kicked loose and descended for a well deserved rest.

The blue marlin was 9 feet long and had a girth of 42 inches around.  It was Tom's first marlin and Tim's first as well.
With a clean release the fishing resumed.  Almost immediately a chick dolphin was caught and released.  A little later Murt caught a nice 25 pound Dolphin to finish the day.

Fishing in the keys has been good, two days prior a large bull dolphin was lost.
The pictures of the marlin don't do it justice but we forgot the good camera.  If you want to catch fish just forget the camera! Any questions let me know.

Thanks,
Tim Tedesco ([email protected])

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