HAVE WE BECOME TUNA SNOBS?????

Wednesday we said "goodbye" to ELSP and headed north yet again. Since we could not fish in the Park we began to angle offshore toward the boundary when CTM spotted a flock of birds. We were VERY close to the boundary of the Park and since we had just seen what I would assume is the Bahamas Water Patrol we were very careful to make sure we were outside of the Park before we started fishing. FISH ON! Caldwell caught a very nice Blackfin Tuna on "Old Lucky" and CTM promptly threw him back without even getting a picture. WHAT?????? HAVE WE BECOME TUNA SNOBS????? WE KEEP NOTHING BUT YELLOWFIN TUNA NOW????? Thankfully C & K caught 3 more very nice Mahi....all on Billy Baits. Ahhhh....dinner once again!

From 2012-06-19

From 2012-06-19

We reeled up and headed on into Highborne where I had made reservations for the next two nights....NOT! We got to Highborne mid afternoon and when we called in on the VHF for our slip assignment our reservation had mysteriously disappeared and they were 100% full! Well, I had made the reservation via e-mail while at ELSP because we had no phone service there. She pulled up the e-mail conversation and read it all back to me right to the part where she had asked for a credit card and boat information to confirm. Oddly enough on her computer the conversation ended there (so she said) but in my "Sent" items there is clearly an e-mail sent to her with all of the requested information. After a slight altercation with that skinny little b*!@h....I guarantee you I could have taken her :)....I was able to confirm a slip for the next night so we hauled a*s 26 miles across Exuma Sound for one more night at Cape Eleuthera and to say "hello" and then "goodbye" to our 2nd favorite guide and dockmaster in all the Bahamas, Leon. Actually CTM wanted to reef fish Tommy Point one more time anyway so, as my good friend Leann always says, "it was all good!"

We studied the tides and rose at the crack of dawn on Thursday in order to be at Tommy Point on the Ebb Tide as Leon had suggested. DEJA VU....last year we fished an incredible reef spot at Treasure Cay with Loopers and Kinscherffs. We took C & K back there about a week later to the exact same spot under the exact same tide conditions and caught NOTHING! This year we had two incredible reef days with Stinsons and Kinscherffs at Tommy Point. We took C & K back to the exact same spot under the exact same tide conditions. We didn't get skunked and did catch a nice mess of Yellowtail and Triggerfish...more than enough to eat...but it was not as productive as our prior two visits to Tommy. We are gonna blame it on the moon and the Sharks :)

From 2012-06-19

We saw several Sharks and four of them went after one of Caldwell's Yellowtails as he was reeling it in. They promptly stole it off of the hook and wow....IT WAS A FEEDING FRENZY! Well, if I was a little Yellowtail Snapper or Triggerfish and saw what happened to my buddy I would have gotten the heck out of Dodge, too! Caldwell did have fun reeling this one in. A little sweet revenge!

From 2012-06-19

We arrived at Highborne AGAIN and YES, this time they had our reservation :) Caldwell quickly volunteered to go to the office to check us in. I think he was secretely afraid there might be some hair pulling if I did! We went to Highborne's new restaurant, "Xuma", for C & K's last night in town where they prepared our fresh Triggerfish....it was DELISH! Well, so C, K, and CTM said as I had a hamburger.....ahhhhh REDMEAT!!!!! The sunset was AMAZING!

From 2012-06-19

Catch you on the flip flop....

CJM