We all meet at the boat for 6.30 start to get underway to our fishing grounds, the skipper was very quite barely talking to anyone on arrival, he must be keen to get underway and make amends for yesterday, I know I was!
We started to head out to the fishing ground, which turned out to be about 10 to 15 miles North West of St Georges. The day was very sunny, the sky was blue and the wind was about 12 knots, so calm seas, perfect conditions! (dajavou)
We went to exactly the same fishing place as the following day, at times on the following day we could see other boats, which were much further south than we were and after a short while we were on our own no other boats in sight, listening to the VHF radio of other anglers who were hooking up, having strikes, fighting fish and ultimately releasing their catch and scouring points in the process.
The same routine again, half strikes and missed hook up’s with ‘Sail Fish’, how does he (he being the skipper) know that they are ‘Sail Fish’ must be experience.
We get a couple of ‘Sail Fish Strikes’, which turn out to be small Barracuda, which were successfully landed on the boat, we caught three small Barracuda in total for our days catch, again no points awarded for this, but maybe they should have been as these fish could imitate ‘Sail Fish’ perfectly. The highlight for the day was when we got a strike and the skipper thought one of us had missed it, were upon he would come out with no end of verbal abuse for missing, yes you guessed it, a ‘Sail Fish’, only to land a small Barracuda, I congratulated the skipper by commenting it was nice to see how enthusiastic he was.
Back to base, the next day was a lay day, were no fishing was to take part and all the crews and fishermen were to take it easy have a chat about the fishing over a few cold ones.
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