"Mahi Squared"

After a great day of fishing with Leon and all the Snapper we could eat that night, thanks to Sharkman Stinson a/k/a the Galloping Gourmet, we decided to go it alone on Tuesday. We had gotten some tips from a guy and his niece who have been here for a month or so and staying all summer about fishing for Yellowfin Tuna. Actually the niece gave us all their secrets. Basically troll Cedar plugs and small feathers along the steep dropoffs along the southern shore of Eleuthera. So, we deployed our Cedar Plug Daisy Chain, a black & red feather, another feather with a black Tuna Worm and then put a naked Ballyhoo on the wire line with a 4 pound trolling lead in front of it. That seemed like the perfect YF Tuna spread. Well it might have been, but we noticed a Friggit Bird circling and diving a bit farther offshore so we ran out to check it out. We chased that bird around for 30 minutes or so and got nothing. We switched to a rigged Hoo and a couple (old dependable) Billy Baits and ran by the birds again and it was ON! Each time around we hooked up a nice Dolphin. We had all we could possibly need for a few days so began releasing them. Here is one of the ones we released compliments of Sharkman's contraption...a Boga Grip. It was a handy tool that makes catching and releasing much easier.

From 2012-05-23

Here is a little insight into the life of a Dolphin. They spend most of their time eating. They reach sexual maturity within 3 to 5 months old and are about 22 inches long. They can reach an amazing 40 pounds in one year. In captivity they have been documented to eat 20 percent of their body weight in a single day. Sounds like a great life huh? The only catch (in more ways than one) is that 99.7 percent of them do not make it to their first birthday and the oldest on record was only four. So, in a Dolphin's life as it should be in our own, you better live it up because it will be over before you know it. Another interesting fact is they are real travelers. There was a fish that was tagged off Key West that wound up more than 1100 miles north in Cape May, New Jersey after just 23 days. No wonder they have to eat all the time to have that much energy.

So, you can see these nice Dolphin we caught are less than a year old. But, at least they have been having sex for a while already :)

From 2012-05-23

Scott made a deal with one of our neighbors on the marina to exchange a bag of fresh "Mahi Squared" for a bag of fresh basil. After a lot of discussion on what we should do with the basil(CJM thought we should roll it and smoke it) the Galloping Gourmet prepared fresh "Mahi Squared" with fresh basil.

From 2012-05-23

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