The
Double Trouble brother team of Glenn & Craig we onboard today for their
annual duel to claim the title of ‘Sabiki King’. With the wind having blown
through the night and still strong in the morning I had my doubts as to if we
were even going to be able to get into the ocean for the challenge. We found
out that the bait guy did not catch bait so with no bait to buy we had to make
the trip out into the rough stuff to try get live bait, no bait – no fish. We
donned our rain gear and headed out. It wasn’t as bad as we thought it would be
but it was pretty rough and definitely wet, not like sprinkle wet, more like
fully submerged wet. Fortunately we were able to reach the bait and the Sabiki
challenge was underway. When it was all said and done I’d have to say the
number of fish boated by Glenn & Craig were about even however Craig definitely
had the edge in the “not tangling the Sabiki” category and seeing that Sabikis
cost the captain money this category is heavily weighted and made Craig the clear
winner and wearer of the crown for 2015. With the live wells stocked it was
time to go and attempt to transform the smaller fish into larger fish. Craig
was the first to perform his magic and turned his threadfin into a slot size Snook.
He then copperfielded another threadfin into an even bigger Snook, a nice slob
that gave a good fight and got the blood really pumping. After this fish the
bite was very slow so we started moving around a bunch trying to find the fish.
Each spot we went to only offered up one or two fish and then we had to move
on. Not sure where all the fish went today however the numbers of fish were
just not there. We kept moving and moving until we hit the honey hole where the
big honey’s were holding. Three pilchards were transformed into three really
nice 20+ lb fish here, with one more slob breaking off. One more slot size fish
was landed in this spot before the action shut down and it was back to bouncing
around picking away at the fish again. The unusual catch of the day was Craig’s
Morey eel. What makes this very strange is that we saw a few Morey eels just
swimming along a beach area in the intracoastal. They typically want to be near
structure and in their hole, not sure what had them all out swimming around
today. Craig was pretty impressed with his catch, the captain was less so as
eels tangle up the line and this captain is definitely not handling a nasty
green snake like creature. I was tempted to strip Craig of his title of Sabiki
King for this nasty catch however the jury’s verdict was that the Sabiki
challenge had ended and was a completely separate event. I awarded Glenn the title
of “least nasty catch catcher”. At the end of the day although we didn’t catch
the numbers of Snook expected (we landed about 15 or so) the four slobs caught (two
each) definitely made up for it. Good job guys, congrats to Craig in winning
the title this year, cherish it while you have it as I’m sure Glenn will be
making at hard run at it next year.
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