1.4.2013 15:00pm 76F
When we bought N6206, previously “Feeling”, we inherited a bunch of fishing gear with the boat. With little to none fishing experience, we kinda just left them as they were. Luckily, two weeks before we left San Francisco, Erik, our neighbor at West Point, helped us sorted out our fishing gear and gave us a few lessons on fishing. Knowing just enough to be dangerous, we rigged up two fishing poles, gearing up for our first fishing expedition on the way to Cabo.
It was one of the most beautiful days on this trip, blue sky and flat sea. We set the lines and just hung out in the aft pilothouse cockpit. Fishing or not, we had a blast watching all the sea life out there, dolphins, sea lions, whales.
Among the many invaluable advice from Erik, one is to go where the birds are.
Dorados definitely liked our lures. We caught several of them.
Christine’s first fish ever!
Following the Youtube video we had downloaded previously, we cleaned the fish and enjoyed grilled Mahi-Mahi for dinner — life is good. Before this day, Mark and Christine both had concerns on fishing. Christine concerned that we wouldn’t catch any fish, whereas Mark concerned we would catch fish too big for two of us to handle — guess we met in the middle there.
And when the Coast Guard asked Greg White if there were any weapons on board, he replied “Well sir, some people say my lures are weapons”.
Good to see you’re following Greg’s lead.
- Tony G
Make sure you have some surface bouncing tuna jigs on your trip. Simple lures with a couple of large upward facing hooks. Send them out 50 to 75 feet behind the boat…on a length of 1/8″ parachute line. Hand line the fish in while wearing a heavy pair of gloves.
Keep you eye out for bait balls and drive through them….and hold on! When the action starts it will be exciting. I worked on a commercial tuna boat and this is how we caught hundreds of tons of fish each season. You should be able to pick up yellow fin and skip jack on your travels south along Mexico. As you make your run at some point across to Australia….you will pick up Albacore in the 45 degree latitudes.
Love reading your blog! Enjoying from Oregon!
Thank you for the tip. We will give it a shot.
Very nice. Brings back memories. We ran out of lures once and used aluminum foil wrapped AA batteries with hooks. Worked just fine. It must be Alcoa foil though, the others don’t work. Curt
拿着鱼那张，看起来好悍
为啥鱼在海里的时候颜色觉得格外的亮