John had one or two fishing poles available for our use.

Two live bait tanks, fillet station, tackle station. 
 

The only thing missing on this boat are these gals:

The first catch of the day was this Jack.  Not bad for Jeff's first fish ever caught....

Mike Jordan snags the first Marlin on 90lb test as Captain Keith helps navigate the path of the fish.

The second day, John Ball hooks up another big one.

After a nice fight from John, another Marlin is snagged and released.

Jeff was now feeling a bit left out, being the only guy on board to not have bagged a Marlin.
That didn't last too long.  About 30 minutes later, a fish is biting at all the lures.  Jason
baits a tiny little rod with 30 lb test line on it and hands it to Jeff.

Fish ON!  I had to snag the biggest Marlin of the group and has the smallest rod with the smallest 30 lb test line.  Everyone seems to think this is a 150 lb, 6' Marlin.  I of course have absolutely no idea what this really means in terms of going to Battle with the Big Fish.

I was in this position for about an hour.  Everyone else was drinking Coronas, laughing at me and giving me lots of "encouragement" by dousing me with the hose, waving beers in front of me and basically making sure I just didn't let go.  God, isn't there anyone I can hand this rod to?  Not on your life.  Now this damn fish is PISSING ME OFF.

He's supposed to be getting tired, not gaining energy.

The fish rests, you rest.  I heard that a thousand times.  Yeah, yeah, I get it.  WIND that reel!

Finally.  He's next to the boat.

Jason puts his hand on the leader line and we declare the fish "caught".  Thank God, I almost passed out after the whole ordeal.

 
Rick bags a Wahoo.  What a great eating fish - probably the best we had.