Just Playin

[Deep C]

Briught the Contender north yesterday... The owner wanted to play over the next few days. Not interested in catching. Just wanted a vacation and a couple hours a day of sliding out to see whats out there.
Well he showed up about 10:AM . Introduced him around the place and off we went. So impressed by the marina and neighborhood, he made a big decision to keep the boat here instead of MIami... Welcome home Mirage... Further he decided to leave it here year around so we can get at the swords late into the spring and early in the fall as well as "in season". That saves metwo hours drive in each direction every time I want to fix something or add something to the precious little rig.
We slid through the inlet and after that now famous half mile bone jarrin run we deployed a full six bait spread of thos circle rigged hoos I have been dialing in. The radio was full of guys moanin about how slow it was. 5-10 from the south will do that to the place. I decided to get out of my usual groove and hit a few spots I havn't worked recently. First pass on one produced some dolphin. I've got a freezer ful and he didn't want any so it was released.
A pass on a second spot produced another. This time though as I throttled back I saw a sail raise then ink away. As he fought the dolphin a bunch more came into the dredge. I was ripping a rigger bait back to the boat to get it away and a sail hammered it. So fast that I couldn't react. Tore the bait up and split in a blink.
I got away from the dolphin nd hit an old favorite spot that I just havn't been able to get to for a while. I got right on the range and a fish torpedoed the flat line. I was thinking wahoo but it instant ly bowed up on the circle. A short run andout it came. A sail...
A nifty fight for a smallish fish... At least we got one... We packed it in early and did some real estate browsing on the way in... Life is good...

Pics to follow in a few minutes as soon as I get the gear cleaned and baits rigged...

[POON MAN]

Nice

look forward to the pics

Nice having the rig close to home so we don't have to listen to your Horror stories on the hardtop

[Deep C]

You've seen the owner with a lot of fish in the keys. This was his first n dead bait on conventional and a different back drop.

They're just so pretty when they eat dead baits....

Also they know when I'm leadering bare handed and using one hand to take their pic... THen they go airborne and love to dig that mono in...

[Chris_K]

Deep,
Nice pix.
For it being slow and just taking a quick run out front thats prety damd good! You always seem to rase some thing.

Witch marina did you stick the Contender at? There is not much room where you keep the Albe.

Paul, Have a happy and safe New Year.

[Deep C]

We moved the Contender to the same marina... Now I can play mix and match with stuff off one to the other and I don't have two drive 4 hours round trip to fix a burnt out running light or something else simple...

Today we went again for a couple hours. I may as well have been wearing mittens. I flat whiffed three of em today. A couple shots each on a couple of em. Would go to drop and they werent there then they smoked me when I was ripping the bait back to the spread...
We caught a few summer size big bonitos up the line before getting run off the water by a heavy rain shower...