WA state record striped marlin

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Zak said:
Any here catch a striped marlin off the WA Coast? I didn't know they came this far north.

Rare catch sets new WA record | Chinook Observer https://share.google/MHOoRVK4Xf564ETzO
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i take what free consumer-grade LLM's report with a pillar of salt - but what i'm getting back is that the first ever was recorded in 1997, the most recent before this weekend was 2005, and the total number reported from 1997 till this week is 5.
 
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My trip Saturday: I hooked something that may have been a Marlin. Never saw it but we had to chase it for a while. Another boat who was coming in for a look basically cut us off and kept from being able to keep chasing and it broke off.

Never jumped but came up from the deep a few times and made fast runs not far under the surface. I've caught striped Marlin in Mexico and the fight I experienced was very similar.
 
Not sure when striped marlin first showed up in PNW waters, but there have been marlin reports every year since I started albacore fishing 20 years ago. I saw one jump in 2015 - which was an El Nino year. Another was landed out of Garibaldi last year, and it was not the first brought into that port.

The fish that blew my mind was the short-billed spearfish landed out of Westport last year. SBSF belong in Kona, not Washington.

Other "exotics", bluefin tuna in particular, have been visiting PNW waters for thousands of years.

But yeah, things are changing out there.
 
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