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Home / A Strange Spotting on the High Seas – Dead Baby Floating| Bill Boyce

A Strange Spotting on the High Seas – Dead Baby Floating| Bill Boyce

Feb 2, 2011 by Bill Boyce

1 Bill Boyce IGFA Saltwater Adventures Offshore stories

While filming an episode for his television show, IGFA Saltwater Adventures, Bill Boyce encountered one of the strangest things he’s ever seen offshore. At first glance the crew was freaked out. Is that a dead baby floating on the surface?

2 Bill Boyce IGFA Saltwater Adventures Offshore stories dead baby

After going all day without a marlin bite, the crew spotted a lifeless object floating amongst the debris. They immediately feared the worst. A dead baby floating?

3 Bill Boyce IGFA Saltwater Adventures Offshore stories dead baby floating in water

Is that a dead baby? The crew went silent as their stomachs soured with the mere thought of such horror.

4 Bill Boyce IGFA Saltwater Adventures Offshore stories dead baby floating in water close up

They motored over and Bill zoomed in on the object with his camera, then, he started cracking up. “The doll was staring right at us with this look that just said, pick me up and give me a beer!”

5 Bill Boyce IGFA Saltwater Adventures Offshore stories dead baby with a beer

After going all day without a bite, the crew was feeling a bit goofy. They posed with their new catch and decided to name him Marlin Perkins. They also felt the little guy deserved an ice-cold beer.

6 Bill Boyce IGFA Saltwater Adventures Offshore stories dead baby brought good luck

Not 30 minutes after Marlin Perkins joined the crew, a raging 700-pound black marlin snatched up the left rigger bait, giving Bill and his team all the video they needed to make some killer TV.

7 Bill Boyce IGFA Saltwater Adventures Offshore stories dead baby brings marlin

After fighting the big black marlin for more than 4 1/2 hours on 50-pound stand-up, the fish was still charging, lit-up and purple!

8 Bill Boyce IGFA Saltwater Adventures Offshore stories dead baby and Marlin Perkins

Back at the Cebaco Bay mothership, the crew presented Marlin Perkins with a series of offerings. Marlin, not being camera shy, insisted on a few quick photos. “It was one of the funniest things to ever happen to me while marlin fishing,” Bill says (and he’s seen a few shenanigans in his day).

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Bill Boyce

Photographer, writer, conservationist and general man about town, Bill Boyce has actively taken part in sport fishing his entire life. As a native Californian, Bill's career began as a fisheries biologist with the US Forest Service in Tahoe National Forest. Later he worked for the Inter American Tropical Tuna Commission, managing the harvest of tunas, dolphins and sharks by the Eastern Pacific tuna purse seine fleet. After 16 years as a biologist, Bill turned to underwater photography and writing. Bill's articles and images are regularly published in magazines around the world. Currently, Bill is producing and hosting a new TV series called IGFA Saltwater Adventures, which airs on the World Fishing Network (WFN).

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