5/29
Hydotherapy, his boss and I were met with rough seas (at least for my “Mosquito Fleet” craft) that never left us the whole day. We had a good time anyway. We came home with 9 dolphin. I think we lost 2 or 3. We also caught and released a skipjack and gaffed and released a small cuda. It was another fun day on the water.
5/30
I went out with a friend of mine on his 35’ Scarab. A little bit better ride than mine. It was crazy leaving out the harbor with a couple hundred other boats. [:0] It was nice leaving from his dock instead of a landing, really nice when we came back in. When we reached 135’ we slowed and deployed our spread. I was actually not fishing Saturday. I was there to help his three friends have a great day. It was the first time for two of them, and the third time for one of them to fish offshore. One of the fellows never fished with anything but a cane pole before yesterday. [:0]
It really was great to watch these guys get so excited doing what I love to do so much. It was just classic to watch them fight the fish and go from so excited and full of energy, to being pooped and wore out reeling in decent gaffers(nothing real huge). One of the newbies had a mystery fish on that was taking line like crazy. I was heading over to help out, when one of the other guys decided to push the lever drag the wrong way.
Well, it free spooled for about a second before it wadded up and popped.
Oh well, I guess that’s fishing.
About halfway through the day, we caught and released a small sailfish. It wasn’t the biggest, but it was the first billfish for “The Intimidator”.
This is the second season my friend has had his boat. We ended up taking home 11 dolphin. We caught all our fish between 135’ and 180’. No real weed line for us, but there were a lot of fliers. I think we lost 4. It was a good day to be out there getting a few more people hooked on offshore fishing. These guys were wore slap out by the time we were done fishing. I told them w