Fish Reports January 2001

1st Happy New year!! Today a some revelers came out and had some fun with us. We got a couple of king mackerel which we caught using live "bullets" which we call small bonitos a member of the tuna familly.

2nd We had an all day trip today and caught what may very well be the largest sailfish we may get all year, and here we are 2 days in. It was over eight feet long at 93 inches. The first week of January is usually the best week of sailfishing all year so lets see what happens. Time for a cold one!.

4th Whoa what a strange day! Baitfishing conditions being tough we managed to catch one live bait. As fate would have it this bait would be eaten or attempted to be, by three sailfish. Not his lucky day. Our bullet survived to sail attacks to be eaten by the third. This was another huge fish. After fighting it for twenty minutes or so we noticed a couple of weekend warriors in a little rabalo edging towards us-actually they were the only other boat in the ocean that day. They considered themselves fisherman but had no clue. Although we told them on the radio and then yelled to thenm from boat to boat to tell them we had a fish on they just kept coming right on by the boat, even though they had a downrigger down. Needless to say they cut our fish off with either their downrigger or their props. What a bunch of inconsiderate losers.

5th In the morning we got the hard luck guys from yesterday out and caught them that sailfish. After such an ordeal they felt it was appropriate to mount it and thats what we did.

6th Today we got a saifish and some dolphin.

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