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SHE AIN'T PRETTY .............NOPE.... A 1994 ..23 FOOT GRADY-WHITE SAILFISH CERTAINLY MISSED OUT IN THE GENE POOL WHEN THE MOLD WAS BUILT FOR FLASHINESS....
BUT...........SHE IS WHAT SHE IS ....AND SHE IS WHAT I GOT! IF IT'S A HEAD SEA OF ANYKIND, .....BUCKLE UP ....PAD UP....FOR YOU ARE ABOUT TO EMBARK ON ONE HEAD-BANGER ...BOW FRAPPING RIDE!.........BUT SHE IS WHAT I GOT!
NOW THE NEW SET PONIES STRAPPED TO THE BRACKET AIN'T BAD....ONLY 280 OF THEM TO BE EXACT.......BUT THEY ARE FROM THE WHISPER-JET FAMILY....STEALTH....MAYBE TOO STEALTH FOR I CAN'T HEAR THE PURR WHEN CLEATED UP.
I LOADED HER UP AND DEPARTED OFFSHORE YESTERDAY "BEAST-LESS",....AND JOINING ME WAS LONG TIME FISHING PARTNERS AND FRIENDS JOHN, BILL , AND BILLY...............
A LAID BACK CREW THEY ARE WHO WERE BY NO MEANS STRANGERS TO PANAMA AND OTHER BILLFISH - RICH WATERS OF THE WORLD........NOW THESE THREE CAN FISH ANY BOAT...ANY PLACE ...ANY TIME....ANY WHERE....
AND HERE THEY SIT ON A 23 WITH ME .............
ANYWAY...............NO WIND....DEAD CALM .....INLET WAS SLACK.........23 KNOTS OF SUZUKI POWER INTO A SLIGHT HEAD-SEA SWELL AND 2 HRS LATER WE SET BAITS.................4 TLD25'S WITH NAKED MEDIUMS ......ONE ILANDER PRO WITH HORSE LADENED AND DOWN THE MIDDLE ON A 50 TIAGRA ......NO OUTRIGGERS .......
THE TRAP WAS LAID...................OR SO I THOUGHT
WE WERE ON THE EASTERN INSHORE EDGE OF THE TRUE STREAM.....BLOTCHED WITH LARGE GOLDEN ISLANDS OF HELLISH GRASS.....NOW THE GRASS HAS BEEN AN ALLY FOR YEARS...HOLDING THE HONEY...THE MEAT AND THE BILLS.....BUT THIS YEAR IT HAS BEEN A NIGHTMARE OF ALL 'MARES...........WITH CONSTANT SHAGGING ...RETRIEVING ....................
WITH EVERY ISLAND COMES THE MAHI ASSAULT...........OH YES THEY ARE A BLAST TO CATCH ALRIGHT....BUT TODAY......TODAY THE CROWD WANTED BILLS.....SO WITH EVERY BAIT TAKE-AWAY I MADE FROM HUNGRY MOUTHS....TWO MAHIS WERE STILL CAUGHT!
WITH TWENTY OR SO GIGGERS AND 2 BULL GAFFERS IN THE SACK............AND THE SUN AT OUR BACKS............"HE" .....THE BIG DADDY......THE KEMO SABE HIMSELF........PILED ON THE HORSE/POPPER!! FIVE PLUS IS MY GUESS.......MISSED IT! THEN IN SLO-MO THE LOCOMOTIVE WALLERED BACK DOWN ON IT AND THE FIFTY BARKED........"IT'S HIM"!!!!! I YELLED....."IT'S HIM"!!!.......THE SPIDER PEELED OFF ....DINKS RETREIVED .........................................AND THEN.........LIMPO......LIMPO LIMPO LIMPO.....................I DROP BACKED THE MOST CERTAINLY SMASHED BAIT HOPING HE WOULD BE ANGRY AND COME BACK..........................NOT A SIGN..........GONE..........SEE YA LATER.................MY HEART PUMPLESS
QUICKLY RE-GROUPING ...A RE-SET WAS MADE.......AND 660 SECONDS LATER....A BLUE CRUISE BY...RIGHT THRU THE SPREAD ................NANNA...ZERO....NOT A RUBBER BAND POPPED
THIS IS GETTING OLD..............ANOTHER 660 SECS GO BY AND SAILDOG PAYS A VISIT.........NOPE....................JUST LOOKING..................NOW I'M TORE OUT OF MY FRAME BY NOW.................THE VHF IS ALL BILLFISH TALK NOW...UP AND DOWN THE OFFSHORE SIDE OF THE BIG ROCK....110 FATHOMS PLUS ....IT WAS ACTION........"3 ON!" .....""HE'S EATING MY TEASERS" !!!!! WAS THE CRY.....
10 MORE MAHIS LATER AND 3700 SECONDS GONE BY.......POP ....POP!! FLAT LINE RUBBER BREAKS ...NO ONE HOME ......THEN LEFT LONG AND DIRTY WHITE BOY IS CLEANING MY CLOCK.......THERE! ON THE LEFT SHORT...KAPOW.....THREE BAITS NAILED AND NO AIR TIME!! GONE...."SEE YA LATER ALLIGATOR.....YOU HAD YOUR CHANCE MR. 'BOX......"
I WAS FRIED
.........................NEXT GRASS WAD AND THE MAHIS ATE MY ASS UP AGAIN.......5 PACKS OF MEDIUMS GONE ON 4 DINKS AND THE INVENTORY WAS GROWING SLIM..........BILLFISH ALL AROUND US....HOOKUPS TO THE LEFT......................AND TO THE RIGHT.......................
3:30PM AND IT'S OVER ......A LIMIT OF MAHI AND NO RAGS TO FLY ..............I POINTED HER TO THE HILL .....SILENT .....DAZED....AND BEDAZZLED....STUNNED...........
BASICALLY , I HAD STUNK IT UP TO SAY THE LEAST...........DISAPPOINTMENT WAS EVIDENT I'M SURE.....NOW THIS CREW....THE CREW WAS SMILING!!.....CORONAS AND LIMES WERE OUT.............BUT DEEP INSIDE.....DEEP DOWN.... MY GUTS WERE ON FIRE ........
"I'M SUPPOSED TO HOOK THESE ANIMALS" !!!......
I TUCKED MY TAIL BETWEEN.....AND SNEAKED IN THE BACK WAY TO THE MARINA....THE LONG WAY......SO NOT TO TRAVEL ALONGSIDE ALL OF MY SMILING , RAG-FLYING CO-HERTS............I COULDN'T BEAR TO LOOK
THE BEAST WENT TARPON SNATCHING TODAY (2 FOR 3) , AND I SURE HE KNOWS ABOUT THE OFFSHORE BITE TODAY...............................I HOPE THE HELL HE AIN'T SITTIN' AT THE DOCK WAITN FOR MEWITH THAT THOUSAND YARD STARE
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