Fishing Day 3

Location

Today I took a GPS reading once we started fishing. Although we moved around during the day, especially trolling, this is where we started: -

Catches

Popping

Today was much windier and therefore rougher. This made popping difficult. We could not find the shoals of bait-fish that made popping enjoyable the day before. 

I caught one GT before we gave up on the popping: -

Solitary GT

Jigging

A slight change today in that we tried our hand at fishing with "feathers" to catch some bait fish. Garry and Kev both caught several small grouper whilst I tried traditional jigging. I was getting no joy so tried the feathers and caught what looked like a big Pin-fish.

Bait Fishing

Having caught a few fish for bait, we did our first bait fishing of the trip. Garry free-lined the big Pin-fish and got a hit but no hookup - all that came back was the head!

Spinning

We spotted some Bonito so I had a quick go at spinning with a Bass Wedge and caught a Bonito that escaped as it was dropped by the guide when unhooking. 

On the Bass Wedge, Garry caught a Rainbow Runner and a Chicken Fish.

Trolling

Garry caught a Bonito trolling. It was then trolled behind the boat as bait and was hit almost immediately taking the back half of the fish. The crew suggested this was a big Spanish Mackerel. Whilst trolling, the guide caught two more Bonito on Bass Wedges. The 1st met the same fate and was severed in two. We asked for the 2nd to be double-hooked with a wire trace but got no bites on that one.

Whilst trolling, I caught a  Barracuda.

After the excitement of yesterday's Sailfish - we all had high hopes for today. Kev was ready with his gimbal but to no avail: -

All dressed up and no fish to catch!

Summary

Today was a poor day. Not much more to say. At least we had a nice sunset on our way back. Also, some us slept with our skylights open. This kept the temperature down (no air conditioning on the boat) and provided lovely views of the night sky. However, we were woken around 2:30am by rain coming directly down onto us through the open skylights - an interesting way to wake up.