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White Marlin Fever

The Pelican had two excellent days of fishing!  Yesterday John and Dick Bailey released 11 of 14 and today they released 7 of 12.  The weather has been great the past few days, a little bumpy on the way in today.  Looking forward to another successful day tomorrow!

More great White Marlin Bites!!

Another great day on thePelican!  Jim Motsko and his family really scored with Five White Marlin releases yesterday!  The White Marlin bite is still going pretty strong considering the ups and downs we have had with weather patterns, it seems to have not had a negative affect on where these fish are and how they are moving.  We […]

Nice Blue Marlin and Four Whites!

If you could only imagine a 350 lb.  Blue Marlin going back and forth on your teasers, it was truely an exciting event to see.  Rob did an excellent job angling this nice Blue to the boat.  the Pelican raised nine Whites, releasing four.  This has been a great season for us all, escpecially for the […]

SOME FOR THE RIGGER AND SOME FOR THE BOX!

The Pelican had a great day today!  Jim Reddinger and friends had an excellent day today releasing five white marlin and landing twenty five mahi!  Good Job!  The white marlin bite is still strongand it seems to be staying consistent for now.  Looking forward to more action tomorrow.  Tuna season is approaching, days available October and November.

Marlin, Marlin and More Marlin!

The White Marlin fishing is still going strong!  Yesterday, Capt. Arch and crew released seven white marlin raising twelve.  A little rougher seas than we’ve had the past few days, but the fish were still out there pretty strong.  There have also been nice blue marlin and sails mixed in!  This has been great for […]

White Marlin Record Setting Week Aboard The Pelican!!

The white marlin count aboard the Pelican continues to stay above twenty releases per day.  Capt. Arch Bracher led his charter including Brian Light, Dave Powers and Bob Bowers  today releasing 23 white marlin leading to a record setting 70 releases in three days.  The white marlin have been in abundance this year for The Pelican […]

Another Epic Marlin Day aboard the Pelican!!

It’s been awesome marlin fishing the past two days!!  Today Capt. Arch put us on the fish again! We started the day seeing a nice Blue Marlin feeding on mahi, jumping clear out of the water.  We slid a mackeral back and it ate, Dave Powers caught his first Blue Marlin!  Congrats Dave!!  First fish of the […]

27 White Marlin!!!

World class fishing aboard the Pelican today.  Brian Light, Dave Powers and Bob Bowers did an excellent job angling four and five white marlins coming into the spread at one time!!  The Pelican raised 37 white marlin releasing 27, a new record aboard the Pelican beating last years record of 23.   Capt. Arch Bracher […]

Pelican strikes the marlin again!

Capt. Arch and the crew aboard the Pelican enjoyed a nice day and excellent fishing yesterday.  Hurricane Earl had not disrupted any fishing patterns that we can tell so far.  Todd Brown and friends raised six white marlin releasing four.  Great angling guys!!  The weather looks great for the rest of the week with calm […]

Marlin & Hurricane Earl

The Pelican and the rest of the fleet made it safely through the hurricane without any damage to note.  Currently the weather is absolutely beautiful and we are looking forward to getting back in the sea’s tomorrow.  Before Earl made it’s approach off the NC coast we had an excellent day of fishing.  Six white […]