Fishing
report from Capt Kevin Brown aboard the charter boat Gold Reserve 2/20/12
Well we went out and caught 5 dozen live ballyhoo and then headed out. The reef has been slow so I decided to head offshore. We put 2 wahoo baits on the flat lines (cigar weights 20 foot leader rigged ballyhoo with Hawaiian eye lures in front of them) also some feathers in the riggers for mahi , tuna or sailfish. We headed for the Islamorada hump .No bite on the way out .When we got to the hump the small feather tunas were biting 3 at a time so we were getting some dinner. We had a double on when I looked back and there was a 200 pound marlin chasing our tunas to the boat. We left one in the water to hold him there and my mate Haden put the other one on a bigger hook and rod and he dropped the tuna back. The marlin lit up on the tuna back and forth for what seemed like forever. But he would not take the bait. Didn’t matter it was an awesome site. So we start trolling back in and in 200 feet the wahoo rod goes off and we greased him put them back out and 15 minutes later we get another one. Great day of fishing. We stopped on the reef and put a live bait sailfish spread out for 30 minutes before we went home but no shots. Thanks to mike, mark, and our good luck charm Lauren. I told her in the morning that woman are good luck on my boat. But if we don’t catch anything that means she had done something bad this week. And she would have to confess if she wanted to catch fish guess she was a good girl this week... luckily for her !!!!!
Well we went out and caught 5 dozen live ballyhoo and then headed out. The reef has been slow so I decided to head offshore. We put 2 wahoo baits on the flat lines (cigar weights 20 foot leader rigged ballyhoo with Hawaiian eye lures in front of them) also some feathers in the riggers for mahi , tuna or sailfish. We headed for the Islamorada hump .No bite on the way out .When we got to the hump the small feather tunas were biting 3 at a time so we were getting some dinner. We had a double on when I looked back and there was a 200 pound marlin chasing our tunas to the boat. We left one in the water to hold him there and my mate Haden put the other one on a bigger hook and rod and he dropped the tuna back. The marlin lit up on the tuna back and forth for what seemed like forever. But he would not take the bait. Didn’t matter it was an awesome site. So we start trolling back in and in 200 feet the wahoo rod goes off and we greased him put them back out and 15 minutes later we get another one. Great day of fishing. We stopped on the reef and put a live bait sailfish spread out for 30 minutes before we went home but no shots. Thanks to mike, mark, and our good luck charm Lauren. I told her in the morning that woman are good luck on my boat. But if we don’t catch anything that means she had done something bad this week. And she would have to confess if she wanted to catch fish guess she was a good girl this week... luckily for her !!!!!
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