Its been a long, long time since I've shown my face here. I've been a busy guy lately and I've had to cut the boards out of my schedule. I can remeber and old farmer telling a young me, "Lad, you've got to make hay while the sun is shining!".... Well, the sun has been shining on me lately and you guessed it, I've been growing, cutting, raking, bailing and staking it. Gotta get the coin while the gettings good.
Fortunately I've come across a very brief break in the action. I'm down in Port St. Lucie, Fl. Tomorrow Shark JP and myself are headed out to the hill to see what we can kill. We've got a 23' survey boat at our disposal and a grand total of 3 rods. You can fit our tackle in shoe box. The cooler is loaded, the baits are on the boat and we're headed out. We'll post some pictures tomorrow evening...... Question is will it be an empty deck or one slathered in blood? Time will tell. We're goin fishin' third world style. It will be a test of whit and imporvisation. We've got no fancy toys to play with on this trip. Just a couple of mold craft wide ranges' and a pile of fresh ballyhoo... Tune in tomorrow evening to see what we bring in...
I hope its a good trip, new moon, resonable seas.... Could be good, could be bad..... The suspense is killin me.... Gotta catch a few ZZZZ's
Now, I enjoyed reading your post and I was beginning to feel sorry for you for being in Florida with only a shoebox full of tackle. Then the "wide range" part lit a lite bulb in my tiny little peebrain...Hey wait a second...Don't feel bad for this guy...It's January in Florida, he has fresh Ballyhoo and the sails are gonna be chewin him up while I watch it blow NW at 30...Naaaaahhh. No pity from me. Looking forward to the report. Knock em up good!
Turns out the ride out was cut short... Dirty, green mucky water, 100 feet, frigate birds and weeds. It was going on... Mahi central... Had to stop and play with a few. A lone frigate bird looking down show us his prize, a bait ball getting chewed apart by a host of mahi... Must have been 40 of them. On our first pass JP managed to get 3 out of four bites up to the transome... He patted them on the head, scratched them under thier chin, whispered sweet nothing in thier ears and let them swim another for another day...Next pass we accidentally put the hook into one of them while the other three where being snake charmed... Opps we got a fish in the boat!
We messed around with these guys for quite awhile... Shark was piercing mahi ears, counceling the troubled ones, getting numbers from the cute ones, dening food to the fat ones and generally looking out for the well being of the mahi population. All said and done we went 4 for 400 on the mahi...
Swung out to some nice blue waterand worked around.... Well this isthe short part of the story... Never found our sail bite...
On the way home shark spied a large raft of grass... I swung around an made a pass. Whys that hunk of grass way in here Shark asked..... I replyed " Its a pair of floats thats collected all that grass"... Seeing a little bit of doubt in my sage wisdom on Sharks face, I decide to prove my point... If after all if it where just a mat of grass the baits would mearly skip across it.... If however there where bouy lines involved we would surely hang up.....
So there we where ending up the day backing down on a grass mat caused by a pair of bouys.... Four mahi in the box, no sail fish bite and a hell of a good time had... This trip won't make the record books, but I won't forget it soon. Did I forget to mention that somewhere in this abridged version of the story a 6lb .... Thats right a six freeking pound bag of Mike and Ikes came into play.... Who'd have thought?????
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You might want to get a bigger tackle box
Looking forward to the report. Knock em up good!
