One Hell of an Epic Trip - 20K ++ kings for all plus a striped Marlin!!

Tony's just had an awesome first mutli day trip with a group of Ozzies on Epic.  The lads turned up Saturday night and stayed a few houses down in one of our holiday homes and were amped to get into some hard pulling kings.  They ended up with one of the EPIC trips Tony putting them on to kings to 28kg and finishing off with a striped

Report from Tony

The boys had a pretty sweet crib courtesy of Epic...

Locked and loaded!

The ozzies ready to rock!

First for the trip on the bait grounds

Bait to burn!!!

The boys made it clear the first day all they wanted was two snapper for dinner! First drift and yes!

THIS AINT A SNAPPER!

Manuel with a 23k fish first up!

Anthony working the MCWorks FG!

Nice fish!

Mani into it again!

Anthony with his best for the day 19k!

Mani with another 23k fish!

and anopther in the early 20s!

Tools of the trade, bit of trolling in between spots!

Manuel with the 2nd snapper of the day! dinner sorted!

Patrick with a 23k fish from the g spot late in the arvo!

And then Mick managed this.. the fish of the day at an est 27k!

off it goes!

While I was slaving over a hot ocean Carl sorted dinner! Good man!

Sun rise over slipper!

Patrick got this nice fish on a jig! It happened to be carrying an old tag!

Anth with another nice fish

And Manuel into it again!

Carl gave us a call up on the VHF saying he had just lost a marlin! Forget the kings.... we had the lures in and within 15min we were hooked up on the bonze here for the party! BUGGER! dropped it! over the next couple hours we managed 4 shots and another in the gear! then one stuck on the Bonze BTK lumo! yeehaa!

30mins later and gaffs in! yeah boi!!!

stoaked as! BTK lumo!

Marlin flag!!!!

The team stoaked as! Rums on!

Mick the first time angler with his fish! woohoo!

The boys!

And a few beers to finish up! What a trip! Cheers fullahs!

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