Events of the day
Nice run out to fishing grounds, good and calm. I’m voted 1st up and fitted for the chair. We see boats hooking fish left and right of us but nothing looks our way. Then all of a sudden a double header with me hooking into a solid 1st fish and us handing over the rod with the other fish to another boat, while I’m fighting my fish. I get the fish under control and bring him in in short order. Estimated size 500lbs.
We take a bit of a break and then Dad hooks up with and catches a solid 4 digit fish in about 30 mins. Some more time goes by chumming and pull hooks on another double.
Getting near the end of the day and we start to worry our third won’t get a fish that day. All of a sudden the mate chumming says there’s a big fish right there. Sure enough we throw chum in and watch it go down, when all of a sudden it’s not there any more. We throw more chum and woosh, huge fish makes a big boil just below the surface and we know we have another grander feeding a few feet below the boat. We keep giving it chum and bait hoping it will take the bait, but it doesn’t seem to want to. We try live macks, dead macks, herring, macks hooked in the tail, but it always takes the chum, not the bait. Till it finally makes a mistake and takes the bait. Bryan is connected to biggest fish of the day which is released Bimini style after the wire man touches leader. Pretty good first day all around..

My Fish:

Terence’s 1st BFT