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CATCH REPORTS 2012
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5th Feb 2012	Evangelos and SGU buddies ventured offshore this morning but turned back early due to mal de mer - fortunately we still managed to get a 22 lb dorado and lose another that shook the hook out.

3rd Feb 2012

Donna & Gerry Mikeska went fishing today and had a very specific objective - Donna wants to catch a white marlin...Not a very easy request since no one can selct a white from a sail or a blue other than by chance! Anyway - guess what the first fish we caught was - a white of course, and so was the 2nd and we even lost another one! At this point I told Donna she could scratch that off he bucket list and what de she want next? A mahi for dinner was the reply - her wish was my command as we proceeded to catch 4 of these and lost a couple more! The Mikeska's are welcome back anytime as they can obviously summon the fish!!

26th - 29th Jan 2012

We fished the 43rd Budget Marine Spice Island Billfish tournament with a team comprising of Dr. Glen Jacobs SGU), Joe Van Tonder, Patrick McFadden (SGU student) and Bobby Hammond (flew in specially from Florida).

Day 1 saw Bobby get off to a good start with 2 sailfish releases and late in the day Glen got a white marlin release which put us in first place (from 50 boats!).

Day 2 saw rough seas which made fishing tricky - the Trinidad boat "Abracadabra" got a Grand Slam plus an extra sailfish for good measure to overtake us even though Bobby released another sailfish. The final day was slow for us but late in the day again Joe Van Tonder got a sailfish release which put us in 4th place overall. We were also top Grenadian boat and Bobby was 3rd place angler overall.

15th Jan 2012

Short notice 4 hour trip with New York anglers - left at 11am with no crewman. 90 minutes later missed a sailfish strike then entered birds feeding around porpoise (in a 30kt rain squall with 6-8ft seas!) - got a hook up after a missed strike - 2.5 hours later gaffed & boated a 155 lb yellowfin tuna! At this point we are overtime and 11 miles out so just head for port and only put 2 lines out - 20 minutes later a blue marlin took 4 attempts to get hooked! Had it on the leader twice but it went deep again (probably foulhooked) - the hook pulled as we got it up for 3rd time - as we had all the line in twice claimed the release - blue marlin about 130 lb. Back to dock at 6pm - 3 hours late!

10th Jan 2012

Wendy, Ross (SGU) & Wendy's Dad ventured offshore today - conditions were choppy. First 2 strikes were just knockdowns from sailfish - no chance of hooking them. Then I saw a rusty 55 gallon barrel floating about 14 miles offshore - went past it - nothing - 100 yds later a dorado hit 2 lines without getting hooked. Turned around and repeated the pass - a wahoo ate the left rigger bait - as it was coming to the boat I notice more movement in the water - a small blue marlin was ahead of the hooked wahoo and another wahoo was looking closely at the swivel on the leader! Luckily the 2nd wahoo did not strike the swivel and we boated 1 wahoo.Round by the barrel again - a dorado got caught. Back to the barrel again - another wahoo. Two more passes on the barrel - nothing -we emptied it apparently!. At 17 miles we got an energetic sailfish which jumped all over the place before being tagged and then releasing itself (wahoo damaged leader!).

2 barracudas on the way back up completed the trip..

5th Jan 2012

Stuart & Joe Dawson & Jeremy went out fishing again 9am this morning and at 11am we missed 2 sailfish strikes. At 11.10 we made up for it with a double header - first sailfish released for Jeremy and 2nd for Joe - both in the 40 - 45 lb range. At 11.34 we got number 3 sailfish for Jeremy 50 lb - another one came up at same time but was not hooked so now we were 3 for 6. Almost an hour later we got number four - Joe's 2nd was on the shotgun lure (all the others were on ballyhoo). Things went quiet after this until about 2 pm when we had another sailfish strike which was not hooked 4 for 8. At this point we had equalled our previous best of 4 sailfish in a day and were desperate for one more to break that record!. We came southeast to the southern corner of the 6000ft contour 11 miles offshore and had a sail strike - not hooked as I turned around it came back to the shotgun lure and was hooked at 2nd attempt - this time Stuart did the business and we released number 5 around 60 lb 5 for 9 - great day!!

3rd Jan 2012

Stuart & Joe Dawson & Jeremy went fishing this morning and after a slow start 2 sailfish came into the biats - one was hooked the other not. We atgged the 50 lb sailfish and relased it for Stuart. A short while later another sailfish hit but again was not hooked. Barracuda filled in the rest of the time - we caught 5 of them - most were released though.

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