The weather gods smiled on us and the ever present pilbara gale force winds abated and we got 2 days nice calm weather so decided to take Destination Unknown out for her first crack at a billfish.
Not knowing what to expect we headed out on sunday morning at a leisurely hour. We caught some livies on the way out wide but decided to begin trolling lures. Not having much luck with those we decided to drown a couple of live baits and see what happened. Turned out to be nothing but after seeing a couple caught we were keen to have another crack on monday.
Woke up a bit earlier on Monday and got on the water at a decent hour. Got some livies and headed straight out wide and decided to try the live baiting straight up. We missed an early shot but a short time later i hooked up
Half an hour later this beautiful black marlin made it to the boat. there were high fives and smiles all round and we were pretty pumped
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A short while later Faulksy hooked up to something.
During a dance across the water it revealed itself to be a nice sailfish. It was landed and had a quick photo taken before swimming off well.
Towards the end of the day we decided we were both happy and were about to head back to camp when my bait was nailed. A short fight and another black marlin was at the boat.
It was a day of firsts for both of us with me having never caught a black marlin and coming home with 2 while Faulksy had never caught a sailfish and he got to tick it off as well! Now he'd like to catch a black marlin and I'd like to catch a sailfish! So to say we were happy with our day would be an understatement!
And so the madness begins..... 
