Spearing a 142kg Black Marlin on Reel Guns

Words can’t describe this feeling. The stars have aligned and a pipe dream that @roughasguts (Jacob) and I have shared for many years has finally come to fruition. Here’s what happened. Jacob and I were both in the water hunting kingfish at the time when I had just shot a leatherjacket for dinner as there seemed to be no kingy action. I ascended to the surface and began to sort out the fish. I took the fish off of my spear and quickly glanced at Jacob to see what he was doing. In the corner of my eye I noticed a massive tail soaring passed him, right behind his back. I swung around and was met with the sight of this monster 142kg black marlin just gliding away from us. I yelled out to Jacob to turn around and as he did, the fish did a complete 180 and swam right infront of us. Jacob asked me if I thought he should shoot it on his rob allen railgun with only a reel, I tried to say yes but I was really just screaming jibberish for Jacob to shoot. So Jacob turned, lined up the fish and pulled the tri
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