Today
was a family trip for Joe, Nicole, Andrew & Katie. Andrew is 9 and Katie 6
and I believe it was their first ocean fishing trip. We figured it may be a
short trip as we didn’t know how well everyone would do in the ocean. The ocean
had a little bump on it from the windy evening before and conditions weren’t
quite a flat calm as they could have been however pretty decent none the less.
The start was a little slow as nothing was really showing any interest in the baits.
Andrew caught a Remora just because there was not much else going on and it was
good experience for him to at least hook a reel in something. He did a great
job by hooking and landing the fish himself. Next Katie hooked into a Bonito
just the right size for her, Goldilocks, not too big, not too small, just
right. Dad got to help getting the fish on board but Katie wasn’t quite ready
to have her picture taken that close to a fish just yet. While we were landing
that fish the big rod went off and Joe was hooked into a Sailfish. It was a
very slow and gentle bite but once the fish got going it really put on a nice
show dancing around the boat. Joe had it on for about 15 minutes and the leader
chaffed through. The Sailfish must have gotten wrapped up in the leader or
something weird. None the less Nicole got some great action shots. Right after
the excitement of the Sailfish died down the motion of the ocean began to take
its toll and it was time to come in before breakfast made a showing. We were
out for just over an hour and both kids got to catch their first ocean fish and
dad got to fight a Sailfish as his Father’s Day treat. Seeing that it was still
early and I still had live bait left I called my wife and we went back out. It
was really quiet on the fish front but she did get one nice Blackfin Tuna. Not
a lot of bites today but some quality fish. Perhaps the fish were off celebrating
Father’s Day weekend and were too busy to come and play with us.
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