Mark and Mike met me again early this morning. We had fished hard the last 2 days so they decided to do a 3/4 day on their third day. We headed south this time trying for a big blue marlin. We headed to C buoy which in the past few weeks was holding a lot of bait but had also attracted a pod of rough tooth dolphins. The rough tooth dolphins have become acustom to eating anything you hook, especially the small tunas we use to live bait. Today however there wasn’t a single dolphin on the buoy and I thought this was the day for a big blue marlin since no one had been able to live bait the buoy for several weeks. We caught some baits and sent them back. After a few laps around the perimeter of the buoy without any luck I decided to go a little closer to the buoy. A small oceanic white-tip shark came over and ate our short bait just a few feet behind the boat. It bit thru our leader and disappeared intot he blue. Mike saw the bite and wanted to catch it so we caught 2 more baits and before we knew it were hooked into a nice white-tip shark. Mike brought it to leader in a few minutes and we released it boatside. We caught another bait and before I could send it back another white tip charged in and ate the bait. This time Mark was in the chair. As Mark fought the white tip we had several others swimming around the boat. We teased the sharks by pulling dead skipjack in and out of the water. We had 8 foot sharks hitting the back of the boat trying to eat the baits. Mike had a lot of fun watching them chase the baits to the transom. Mark finally brought his shark in and we released i, a nice 8 footer. Unfortunately, we didn’t get the big blue marlin we were looking for but it was great fun playing with the sharks! Mark and Mike will hopefully be back this summer for some marlin action!