About a year ago, Marlin had a chance to look at Garmin’s somewhat quietly introduced Panoptix side-scanning sonar ... sonar for a chronological view of the water and the Panoptix DownVü for an ...

(The anglers had hoped to release the fish alive.) Their new dilemma was that the marlin, which had struck a trolled ballyhoo and a large green lure late in the afternoon, was nearly 14 feet long ...

Kathleen kicked off the series with a monstrous 942.5-pound blue marlin, a fish that still rests atop ... and tossing messages over the side in likewise expired plonk bottles.