The Puerto Rican trench is the second deepest spot in any ocean and is located just a few miles offshore from the capital city of San Juan. It is contiguous with the famous “north drop” off St. Thomas of the U.S. Virgin Islands and is known for holding large concentrations of billfish, particularly blue marlin, just like its Virgin Island counterpart. I have had the pleasure of fishing for marlin there several times in the past and have been reasonably successful even taking fourth place in the renowned Club Nautico International Billfish Tournament in 1993. My friend Tim Kernan of Albany, Georgia and I while visiting San Juan on business had the opportunity to spend a day and a half on the water aboard Mike Benitez’s Seaborn II the third week of September. We found the fishing to be wonderful but the catching to be somewhat slow. This was just over a week after the hurricane had struck the west end of the island. San Juan itself had fared reasonably well during the storm and was back to normal when we arrived on the island despite the well documented devastation experienced by some inland areas. Because of the recent hurricane spawned torrential rains with the attendant runoff we found a large amount of flotsam on the water which was holding dorado and some smaller wahoo. There were only a few blue marlin around though and they were small males weighing 100 to 150 pounds. We kept hoping to come across the large females that we knew they should be shadowing, but never found them. Nonetheless due to the wonderful hospitality of the Puerto Ricans the trip was still very enjoyable.