Author, writer, marine artist, charter captain, lure manufacturer, ind. consultant
Heather,
Likewise on the "Private". Looking forward to seeing it and thank you for putting up the clearer version...I'm sure you'll get it going for us.
Delighted you and dad got a mako on the troll! Now, keep doing it ala the book and you will find that you will consistently and dramatically outfish the chummers...you know, those three blind mice aboard "The Cheezer" (from the book)? Hah! Sing it boys..."Let's go chummin' now...everbody's learnin' how...stick yer head in a bucket with meeee!" Courtesy of The Blind Mouse Offshore Rubber Ducky Boogy Band.
Troll inshore around major bait concentrations and you're bound to run into threshers. Unlike some chummers, I have both trolled and chummed extensively for threshers and trolling outfishes chumming by a factor of at least 8 to 1...and I am being conservative. And at times you will find some makos in there close too. If you are bait and switching you can match up lighter gear for the makos and have fun with them, while you have a big rig ready to pitch to a thresher. They are much harder fighters than makos...MUCH!
A number of top fishermen back in your neck of the woods, including some charter captains with tight lips, have learned that they can troll mixed spreads for sharks and tunas and catch both very consistently. That's some fun fishing there! And if you decide to do the bait and switch trolling or power chumming games you will find out just how much real fun and excitement there is to shark fishing...
...Or, you can drift, stink things up, bake in the sun, play with the blues - the fish, both kinds, not the sounds - and the doggies - and sing..."Let's go"...oops, you already heard that song, didn't you?
One day it's gonna happen big time back there, you watch! Unless the day comes when the game sharks quit running down and killing their prey, instead of hoping to run into some dead stuff to suck down. But nah, the sharks ain't gonna change. Will fishermen? Hmmm, good question!
Some have...Good on ya, Heather and dad! And some others, too!
Here is a shot of the little mako.... the only reason we caught him was the wire on the pakula rig. We lost a few more lures rigged with mono to them as well. Thanks for the info Fred!
thanks for posting the hd version. no doubt that both air shots are the same marlin. But I do see something slashing through the right side and the guy pointing at the airing marlin is pointing in a different direction. I don't think its the lure. Makes me wonder how many fish we have missed seeing in the past. Thanks again. that was awesome
Author, writer, marine artist, charter captain, lure manufacturer, ind. consultant
Heather,
Thanks for getting that up and in slo mo to boot. No doubt that's a marlin exiting on the left side, but I still can't be sure about the jumper on the right. Ah well, it's just me, obviously. I've seen wahoo come in like that so many times it has probably poisoned my thinking. As stated earlier, it's a great sequence with all kinds of stuff going on. So typical of San Carlos, eh? I wish I'd seen it from my tower!
Thanks for the mako on the lure shot. Remember, little lures will catch all kinds of big pelagics, which eat a lot of little stuff, but if you want bigger makos, bigger lures work better.
Have a great season and again, thank you for the video.
Definitely a marlin. I have never seen a wahoo bend the way it does on the port side. It is the same fish in my opinion. Looks like a marlin to start on the entrance on the port side and confirms it on the starboard side exit. I cant see how one would think it looks like a hoo- way too bent.
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