password] Tsar12
[position]13 86.51S 161 62.59 W
[weather]wind E 18-20 k seas 2 M skies clear
[status] after a rain cell went through this morning the skies cleared to a beautiful day with a nice following 2M sea and the wind from behind at 16-20 .
The seas have settled a little from yesterday- it?s a shame with conditions like these we can?t use the gennaker ( repaired the few tears) but there is no point with the distance left to travel we need to pace ourselves in order to arrive after sunrise.
We had Marlin steaks for lunch which were delicious :)
I wasn?t going to put out a lure today as obviously we have quite a bit of fish but decided to put out 2 small lures this afternoon hoping to pick up a Mahi-mahi as they are also one
Of my favourites and I haven?t had one this trip.
Also I am sure the local Cook Island caretakers on the island would be appreciative of any fish thrown their way !
Just as I was going to bring the lures in for the day one reel started screaming again and another marlin was tail walking across the surface in a hurry. We were doing 8 knots so by the time I got to the rod and wound up the drag he was still doing acrobatics some distance away and the swivel parted with the load .
As I believe the strike we had 2 days ago was also a marlin ( bigger weight than the one yesterday) that is 3 in 3 days and we only had lures out for 3 hours today.
This is s fishing paradise !

Last time at Suwarrow I had a memorable fishing adventure with the local caretaker so look forward to seeing how this stop over goes - we got some big hits last time and often when you have some fish is the time you get lucky again - time will tell.

It is likely Surreal 2 is also at anchor so will be good to catch up with them.
Tomorrow morning will be breakfast at anchor hopefully

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