Today we had Mack and his wife Nell from Lubbock Texas called us and decided at the last min to go fishing. Well we are way into Sep and Sep is our slowest month of the year as far as customers are concerned so we were glad to get the call. I don't know who was more eager to go fishing them or us? (LOL)
It took us about 2 min to get the boat ready to fish and off we went.
We started out trolling the reef with our 2 planners about 45 feet down and three surface baits skipping across the top. As luck would have it fishing was good and the bonitos and king fish started flying in the boat one after another. As we worked our way to the south I had talked to one of the other charter boats and Captain Steve had let me know that he had seem 4 sail fish jumping around. So once I found out how deep he had seen these fish I worked our way to 125 feet of water where the fish had been seen.
As Mack was complaining about having to reel in another fish something had hit one of our surface baits. Captain J.J. left Mack along to deal with the fish he was fighting and picked up the rod that had just got hit. All of a sudden this monster sail fish came out of the water dancing all over the surface. Mack stopped complaining about all the bonitos and kings he had been reeling in and jumped at the shot of fighting a sail fish. Sorry to say that the sail made one last jump and spit the hook. I guess that's why they call it fishing and not catching.
Like I have always said better to have seen him and lost him then to have never seen him at all and besides at this point I think we hooked Mack into this deep- sea fishing thing. (LOL)
At this point we were out of time but I figured what the heck we had nothing else going on so I decided to make one last troll off into the deep water and give Mack and Nell a break from all of these bonitos and king fish.
As we were trolling off shore I had told J.J. that it sure would be nice to catch Mack and Nell at least just one 7 pound dolphin fish so they could have a fish fry for lunch. No sooner did the words come out of my mouth when one of our surface baits got hit. And yep you guessed if a dolphin fish. I could not believe it but there he was resting comfortably in our fish box or so I thought. I turned to make one more pass by this little piece of wood where we had found the dolphin in the first place when one of our planners got hit. This time Nell jumped in the chair and in came this barracuda but when J.J. opened the box to throw him in to get the hook out of him the dolphin jumped out and right back into the water.
(RATS) I could not believe what I had just seen but wait a second the leader was still in the fish's mouth and it got hung up in the hinge of the door to the fish box. Once again J.J. threw him back in the box and kept the lid shut.
Once we got back to the dock J.J. cleaned the dolphin up for Mack and Nell and they went next to the boat where there is this restaurant that cooked it up for them.
Mack and Nell thanks again for a great time fishing and Mack hope your arm feels better (LOL) Looking forward to seeing you guys again soon.
Captain Taco (954) 764-4344 or toll free (877) SEA-4344
