Does this sound like a broken record? It does to me. Or how about, "The BIG ONE got away"? Well, it did. After a very stressful football game with Arizona State in Columbia, CJM and I pulled out Sunday morning for Islamorada. It adds a couple hours to the travel time from Columbia so we got in town just in time for the last hour or so of Happy Hour. Stress relief! We got FF III put in Tuesday morning after being dry docked for much of hurricane season. It was really dirty from Issac blowing through here a few weeks ago. We got Her somewhat cleaned up, fueled up, and ready to go fishing on Wednesday. Didn't get out too early but finally out. REAL stress relief! Fishing was really slow. No weeds or debris around but lots of birds. We were told right after Issac there was lots of debris and pretty many fish. The birds were mostly on Skipjack Tunas. We caught 3 or 4 and even one little skinny Mahi. We were kind of heading in when we came upon some more birds working. We, of course, trolled through them and got a double hook-up. Both fish were on our spinning rigs with 30# line and Billy Baits. One of them took off like a rocket. It reminded me of a Marlin or big Wahoo bite. These reels are spooled with about 300 yards of line so we can't let them run like with the big rigs. With CJM on the other pole, there was no one to man the bridge and help by backing down on the fish. I slowly tightened the drag as I knew we were about to be spooled out. Something had to give. Either the fish would stop or the line would break. He got off. S@%t! I reeled it in to find the crimp had failed on the lure and the hook came off.
Not one of my crimps by the way. A factory crimp. So what does this mean? Only buy unrigged Billy Baits or was this an isolated incident? We have actually caught and landed a 42# YF Tuna, a Marlin and numerous other big fish on factory Billys. I guess it was just bad luck. Maybe my good luck will come this weekend when Missouri plays South Carolina. I guess if I could catch them all it would not be as much fun. RIGHT! Stay tuned, CJM says we can go out really early tomorrow, so watch for the fishing report.
CTM
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