Wednesday, May 21, 2008

FISH LIKE WOAH!

Since I reached back out, the ocean has been teeming with fish! Schools of Tuna and Dolphin all over the boat. Fishing is not really allowed on board so you have to be smart. Most of the time I am just the watch, spotting fish and looking out for the guys.

We have two methods...

The first is our harpoon which works well but takes quite a bit of skill. It is better, obviously, for the top fish like the dollies!
Then there is high strength black marlin cord with homemade lures. Also, production hooks are rare so the malaysians make these amazing hooks out of high tensil crane wire...they are seriously solid and very effective.

With the tuna, when using the marlin cord, you have to use leather gloves to hold the line or else your hand will get destroyed! The other night my buddy hooked up on a beast tuna that took the rig, line and everything. Now we are trippling up the cord by braiding it to handle these monsters! GOOD ACTION!