FDNY Brothers Catch & Release White Marlin Aboard The Montauk Downeast Fishing Boat “Mary Alice”

8/27/2024 I was running late and texted Pete that I wouldn’t arrive to the Marine Basin till 3:20am which gave me 10 minutes before I was officially late! Grabbed my gear out of my truck and noticed that Pernickety Pete was approaching the fuel dock for my curbside pickup. Before stepping aboard I checked the time, 3 minutes to spare, 3:27am. If you’re on time, you’re late! We had seven lines set before sunrise/graylight. We trolled till 7:30am and switched over to jigging, no luck. Captain Pete set a course for the Ranger Wreck and once again set up to troll. Everything was in our favor, pristine water, whales, dolphins, tuna grass and tuna chicks, but nothing was taking the lures we had set up behind the Mary Alice. Then around 10am one of the big international reels started to scream! Fish on!!! To our surprise the Mary Alice would land her first white marlin. It was the first marlin I’ve ever seen close-up, I was psyched. We snapped a few pictures, and the beautiful Marlin was on her way. Then about an hour and a half later, the second big penn international reel started to sing and Mike strapped on a belt, and reeled in a nice yellowfin tuna. At that point, I’m sure all of us thought that we could put a couple more tuna fish in the boat, but that was not to be. With the crew in agreement, we ended looking for tunafish and decided to head Inshore with the hopes of catching some fluke and seabass off Cartwright. We landed a couple short fluke, which were released and a handful of porgies and seabass. FDNY lineup: Captain Pete Carey L42/M1, Kevin Profitlich R2, Mike Healy L42/E45 and Tommy May E89/E326/M9. Hope you enjoyed the video