Battling the Azores Blue Marlin | Leg 6, trip 3

The team returns to the Azores for the their third and final trip of the season. During their time away from the boat, the Spencer 57 underwent a massive motor rebuild on the port engine. Parts and mechanics were flown in from the States just a handful of days prior to the team arriving in Faial. Alex and Vitor work through several nights to ensure the motor and boat are ready for the teams last trip before the new year.
When the boys arrive, the rebuild is complete and the boat is ready to fish. Steve gets intel from a local friend Diogo, that the bite is still hot. The first day out produces well with the team landing several quality fish up to 800 pounds. That will be the only day of the trip that produces such numbers. A weather system is rolling in and the fleet is forced to fish the back (lee-side) of the island the remainder of the trip.
The fishing is slow and the weather is poor. The local temperature has dropped substantially since the boys last trip, a clear indication that the season is changing and the historical (once in a lifetime) bite is coming to an end. The team reflects back on their time spent in the Azores over the last few months. Sharing some of their favorite memories from the different trips and the things they’ll miss most about leaving this land of giants.
Up next on the world tour, Ascension Island. One of the most remote islands in the Atlantic Ocean will be getting its first fishing visitors in over 8 years. Stay tuned and subscribe to our channel to stay up to date on trips with the team.
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CONTENTS OF THIS VIDEO:
00:00 - First fish before coffee!
01:06 - Team BadCo explains why Azores is so special
04:43 - Anthony talks about the repair and setback
05:37 - Engine rebuild
06:17 - Transporting parts on a private jet
07:36 - First day out! They are biting
10:29 - Lose a marlin, snag another at the same time?
14:22 - Catching too many fish, need gloves on
15:17 - Epic Azores marine life, whales, dolphins
16:43 - Great footage of Marlin bite
17:42 - Capt. Steve and Anthony talk about weather coming in
19:33 - Rough seas, still catching marlin!
20:50 - Close encounter with a marlin
21:20 - Fueling up, Anthony talks weather
23:02 - Tuna!
23:16 - Here comes the storm!
27:22 - Last day fishing
29:27 - Thresher on the line!
30:02 - Outros
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FEATURING:
Anthony Hsieh
Captain Steve Lassley
Captain Kevin Bohannon
OB Morton
David Lassley
Vitor Moura
Alex Fanjul
Chase Travers
Videography by David Lassley | IG @David_lassley
Video edit by Tanner Matthews | IG @filmpacific

[@user-ps3rb9yc8x]

Wow!! Azores. I've heard how aweome the fishing is there for years and years. It's amazing to have that much good sized marlin biting!!! Just epic!! The ultimate predators of the ocean pelagics are big marlin! I've swam in huge marine biomass areas around some fads with mask and snorkel to take underwater videos and there was everything from small nehu bait fish frothing on the surface and you could just scoop them up w/ 5 gallon buckets right over the gunnel!! Below them was massive schoolsof aku/skipjack tuna just 1000's massive metric tonage!! Then huge gorilla ahi 200+ lb everywhere!! I was swimming underwater just watching huge ahi eating the aku and crashing the surface eating nehu!! Everything!!!! Ono and Mahi Mahi and then lots of big huge donkeys it was amazing!!!!! They'd come ripping into the aku schools all lit up glowing electric blue and just whip it's bill around stunning the aku then do a u turn come back and start swallowing the aku!!!! It got really spooky because I had huge 500-800+ lb. Blue Marlin swim right at me at hi-speed and circle me really lit up to the max!! I was scared I might get speared by one!! It was the most epic biomass and so much fish in the water it was just insane!!!!I even saw really big blue marlin stunning and even spearing100 lb. ahi's!!!! Surprisingly there weren't that many sharks, though there were some. I honestly think they were scared of so many giant marlin!!! They are the ultimate super predators of the sea!!!! Guys were catching aku and riding them up to send them down to catch the big ahis but the big marlin were grabbing them and I must have seen 4- 5 boats in a row hook huge 600-800+ lb. Marlin and just chase them as they tire up the surface and the boats disappeared fighting huge donkeys for hours! Heaviest fad action I ever saw!!! I started running my green stick because I was targeting big ahi and ND I caught 10 or 11 big ahi on the stick!!! At sunset I put my parachute sea anchor out to ika shibi fish, and on the sounder I was marking deep @ 60-80 fathoms what I suspected were big eye tuna!!! Sure enough I was dropping my "Maki dog" rig down to them and just started pulling 100 lb. Big eye up!! Caught about 6000 lbs of big yellowfin and big eye tuna! One of the most incredible biomass area's I've ever seen and ot was a feedi.g frenzy. I commercial fish for my living on my custom Force 30 so I target ahi, and didn't want to mess with any big marlin. But big blue marlin are the top level predators! Swimming in that huge biomass with everything in the area around the fad was amazing but I waved at my boat frantically to come get me because I had lit up and feeding big marlin being really threatening to me and I was in fear for my life! Thanks so much for sharing your Azores fishing. It was epic!! Aloha D.L.⁶

[@ldtenenoff]

Cant wait for ur Videos please continue to share ur lifes journey in fishing the worlds oceans So THANK YOU Badco and HAPPY NEW YEAR & safe Boating to u and Crew

[@willybendit]

Thanks for posting tight lines for 2024

[@gregorymillar285]

Awesome tour, thanks for taking us with you

[@tomahawkshorthaul]

Epic! Epic! Epic! I'll be your crew, anyday of the week.

[@aynelvega6818]

I can’t wait 🍿

[@TheMrJackpinesavage]

FIRST ! I would like to thank KZbin and really bad weather today in the gulf. Dam you guys are living the Dream!

[@whereverwemayroam111]

Another awesome video thank you 👍

[@JamaicaOutdoors]

I'm with U guys all the way !!🎉Dream makers😎🎣💪🏽🤙🏽🇯🇲🇩🇪awsome!! just awsome!!

[@badcompanyfishingadventures]

🙌

[@jasonlockhart4647]

It's so awesome you guys are sharing this content with the world we thank you very much keep it going guys we wish you the best of luck.

[@dennismalcolm6620]

I SURE WOULD LOVE TO KEEP COMPANY WITH TEAM BAD COMPANY!!!!🎉😂😅

[@familyties4076]

Anthony you are the Modern day Hemingway!! I have a sport fish and a small tender my son an I love what you are doing. True Gentleman Anglers and proving there are still real men left on this earth. How many hrs did the engine that blew have? Anything preventable on the breakdown or just happenstance?

[@davewylie654]

Mr Koyanagi getting some serious play!!! Those baits are straight 🔥 Alex about got whacked!!! TO ALL OF YOU, THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS EPIC JOURNEY AND MAY 2024 SEE YOU ALL IN GOOD HEALTH AND PROSPERITY!!!!

[@badcompanyfishingadventures]

thank you!

[@quentind4093]

LFG 🤩 you guys are legends !

[@travisclifton6907]

Great fishing. This is now my favorite fishing channel. I especially loved the background music!! It was dynamic and emotional and perfectly in sync with the film!!!

[@badcompanyfishingadventures]

Thank you!

[@___f_a_a_5___]

hi from Azores Fayal island, great tour and awesome people, you are always welcome here S2

[@badcompanyfishingadventures]

Thank you we love it there!

[@ryanhughes2159]

Awesome video love from Australian 🤙🤙🤙

[@nicksaunderson8154]

Epic videos, awesome looking place and crazy amounts of big fish. What lures are you guys mostly towing? I see Koya, Moyes? Be awesome to see in the vids what you are putting out and why

[@sincere_jr]

A successful journey that’s never ending ! The details matter! Great film! First time watching Badcompanys adventures , I’m glad the crew gets to experience these great moments of life I can only imagine the stories you all have. Keep it up and continue to pursue the adventure of life 🎉

[@badcompanyfishingadventures]

yea buddy!

[@tywebb140]

Only thing I can say is 😮😮😮😮😮😮WOW!

[@Eastsideadventures]

Amazing guys. ❤

[@sailortristan]

Awesome the engine was rebuilt so quickly. Maybe you could keep a set of rebuild kits on the support boat.

[@arthurcitron9774]

Spot on!👊🏻🇺🇸

[@trancemusic8805]

great video! is no one allowed to catch the fish but that guy?

[@achimotashrek762]

Love your videos and approach. Come fish West Africa .... Ivory Coast, Ghana Nigeria ....tell us where the Blue Marlin have gone. 20 years ago it was a prized area. Today, they are rare. Good luck in 2024.

[@badcompanyfishingadventures]

Maybe soon!

[@Snookninja386]

Crazy how different people’s lives are. Anthony’s lows are all of our medium/highs and the best days of out lives are his average days 😂😂😂

[@samhearin8487]

Is there a way to see where your tagged blue marlin travel?

[@joelcorder2714]

Do you ever let anyone else in chair?

[@badcompanyfishingadventures]

Yes throughout the world tour some of the team have been in the chair.

[@maineoutdoorsman677]

Anything that can pull on a 130 is my kind of game You got to get under water camera so we can see ,what's below ⬇️ I wish I was Rich ,you here me god ,little luck 🍀 my way ,