FISHING REPORT.....

O.K....so after all of the boat waxing and repairs and a/c repair we got to go fishing. The first day (Friday) was sort of ho hum.....we caught a ton of skipjack tuna but nothing to eat. Skipjack tuna have a real strong taste so nobody here keeps them or eats them. According to our "Sport Fish of Florida" book the food value says, "Dark flesh...good but not to most tastes." However, when we were in Tobago they wouldn't let Tim and Dr. Geroff throw anything back so we had to eat them. In Tobago they put enough curry on them so you can't taste the fish so it works. We don't care for curry and don't have any in our spice rack so back in the drink the skipjack went. Saturday we pulled out fairly early hoping to find some mahi. We ended up with a nice catch of blackfin tuna. Blackfin is sushi grade tuna so they are AWESOME! Here is a pic.....

From 2009-09-13, Feeding Frenzy in Boat Yard and Blackfin

Today (Sunday) we kind of slept in. After the Mizzou win CTM was so pumped he couldn't go to sleep until well after midnight so early fishing was not gonna happen. We headed out around 10:30. The seas were choppy so we had high hopes of a dolphin catch. Captain Skip Bradeen says you need some "chop" in order to catch dolphin. Well.....it turned to be more than "chop!" When we were heading out a storm blew up behind us. We just kept heading out and outran it. O.K....we were thinking we were good to go. However, we have XM weather on our GPS and we continued to watch the storms blow up and they were all between us and home. As Roger Long would say....GEEZ! After trolling for a few hours and dodging storms and no catch we saw an opening between two storms and decided to make a run for it. We were headed toward the Channel 5 Bridge and couldn't see it so we kind of hung out until we saw a break and headed in. Nothing but rain. We could hear thunder but couldn't see any lightening so that was a good thing. And....wouldn't you know it....we are now back in safe and sound and sitting on the porch having cocktails and all of the weather has moved on and it is beautiful and sunny! Figures.....

CJM