great picture of the airborne fish. Notice how the fins and tail look extremely disproportionate (sp?) to the rest of the body? Very cool.
Hawgdawg,
Nice thing you noticed that...I was just going to mention it and ask if anybody as any ideas / theory´s about it - just been discussing it with my charter. They did not only look disproportionate, the dorsal and tail on that fish were actually huge for that size fish. I have seen it before but not as so prominent as this one.
What do you think this is? I was just stupidly speculating::jest....could this be a fish that genetically has the tendency to grow a lot. I know this is far fetched but in the same line that a teenager with a large foot size is bound to grow really tall!!!
Anyway, enough of that as we got down to business again today...despite the stupid weather we fishermen are the eternal optimists and go to extremes to get those ladies with the big noses...
After being caught in that storm yesterday and the wind pumping through the night at over 30 knots, it was an easy collectively decision that today was a blowout and a lay-day. It was also obvious that when I met up with the Royston´s after breakfast this morning that they already were as land sick as I was !!!
Despite still being pretty strong and gusty the southerly seemed to ease down a tad around 11am and everyone agreed we would go round the corner and have a look if conditions were indeed fishable.
Surprisingly enough the sea was not as bad as we had predicted and at noon we had a 4 lure spread out at V mile. We picked up a couple wahoo in the first half hour but things went quiet as we tacked down sea towards the northern lighthouse area.
Just after 2h30pm we spotted some birds fairly shallow and after doing a deeper tack we turned inshore with the sea running on our aft quarter and as soon as we approached the mayhem....BANG, strike on the Short rigger Black & Orange WR and we hook up to a nice fish...