We had a very interesting charter today. I had the pleasure of taking 6 Sushi aficionados from Japan. The plans where made months ago, they where coming from Japan to catch their own sushi and ship it back themselves. They arrived yesterday and came to the docks with Cameras in handThey could speak very little English and actually needed an interpreter to make the booking.
We left the dock late at 6am because lightning storms where passing through. The whole ride out I could not understand a word they said. I just kept nodding and smiling and pretended I could understand Japanese. I spent a few months in japan and I can't even read one word much less understand someone speaking.
So" we get to the fishing grounds and my buddy Eric from "Four Days Out" tells me there is a bite down where he is. We get down there and "Fish on" for everyone all the boats hooked up instantly. we got our bite after a few boats hooked up.
"Fish on" Nice" I start the Chinese fire drill. " Oh yea Japanese fire drill. Oh Boy they can't understand a word of English. Hey buddy you got the belt on upside down he says Hi. We said Hi this morning put the belt on right, He says Hi again. Now I got four Japanese guys on the same rod. And no one reeling in the other Riggs. Hey bud start reeling in the other rods, he says Hi again and goes back to the rod with the fish. I finally yelled at Kerry because he was the only one who understood me. OK now I got five Japanese guys on the same rod ( they really want sushi ) I think the guy in the middle was reeling the guy on the left was holding the guy in the belt. The guy on the right was holding the guy reeling. The guy in the back was holding the whole bunch and occasionally would help reel. With all these guys on the fish I had no idea where the rod was. We ended up landing a nice 71 inch fish. I finally got a fish that was shipping to Japan.
Twenty minutes later its Fish On again. I think it was the same 5 guys who reeled in the first fish but they rotated positions. Kerry had the leader in sight 3 times but every time the leader came they insisted on changing the rotation. Remember I can't speak Japanese and they can't speak English. To make a long story short we lost the second fish.
OK lets drown some Poggies. We set up the kite and let the poggie go "Smash" fish slamming the bait. it sounded like Dice K had just hit a home run. We lost four Poggies to tuna slamming them. We finally got one on the hook here come the five anglers except this time we left the bent but in the rod holder. It only took four anglers for this fish. We ended up with a nice 64 to 68" fish we released this one in good shape.
All in all we ended up having a hilarious day and they all went home with smiles and stories of how they caught their own Sushi.
By the way every boat in the MBG fleet went home with tuna today.![]()



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They could speak very little English and actually needed an interpreter to make the booking.
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