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While sailing North from Tortola to Bermuda it was time to dig out the old fishing rod to see if we could provide a fresh tuna for dinner. The St. Croix fishing rod and Penn reel have been hanging in the forward cabin for several years untouched and needed a good dusting off. After inspection of the smaller plugs (fishing lures) it was discovered the best plug for tuna fishing was in poor condition with a very rusty fish hook and was discarded. The next best choice was a nine inch Rapala Magnum Mackerel lure. This lure was brand new and still in the box and waiting to be launched over the side to entice dinner.
The Rapala Magnum lure is a very colorful silver blue lure that wiggles as it is being pulled through the water by Gypsea and should look very appealing to any fish. Several hours went by when all of a sudden the fishing reel started to spin wildly out of control…we had a “strike” on our line and dinner awaits.
Everyone jumped to attend to the fishing rod and reel this creature in. Crew member Hal was working the fishing rod attempting to “play the fish” when this beautiful hugh billfish leaped out of the water into the air and tail walked across the top of the water for a distance of about 100 feet before diving deep into the ocean. Perhaps he wanted to see who the amateurs were that lured him into sampling our Rapala lure. There was a lot of pressure on the fishing rod and reel as this beautiful giant fish of about 150 or 200 pounds dove deeper and soon after bit through the stainless steel leader separating himself from the would-be fisherman and the hopes of a fresh fish dinner. It was collectively decided the billfish that we thought we had was a Marlin. He was much too big and much more than we could handle even if we could have reeled him in.
Now minus one twenty dollar lure, it was time to set another Rapala lure and try again. With the new lure smartly trailing well behind Gypsea we noticed at least three very beautiful Yellow Fin Tuna about four to six feet in length swimming about 10 feet behind Gypsea. They hung around the stern of our boat for about 10 minutes and I’m sure they were laughing their Yellow Fin Tails off at the fisherman aboard Gypsea.
While sailing North from Tortola to Bermuda it was time to dig out the old fishing rod to see if we could provide a fresh tuna for dinner. The St. Croix fishing rod and Penn reel have been hanging in the forward cabin for several years untouched and needed a good dusting off. After inspection of the smaller plugs (fishing lures) it was discovered the best plug for tuna fishing was in poor condition with a very rusty fish hook and was discarded. The next best choice was a nine inch Rapala Magnum Mackerel lure. This lure was brand new and still in the box and waiting to be launched over the side to entice dinner.
The Rapala Magnum lure is a very colorful silver blue lure that wiggles as it is being pulled through the water by Gypsea and should look very appealing to any fish. Several hours went by when all of a sudden the fishing reel started to spin wildly out of control…we had a “strike” on our line and dinner awaits.
Everyone jumped to attend to the fishing rod and reel this creature in. Crew member Hal was working the fishing rod attempting to “play the fish” when this beautiful hugh billfish leaped out of the water into the air and tail walked across the top of the water for a distance of about 100 feet before diving deep into the ocean. Perhaps he wanted to see who the amateurs were that lured him into sampling our Rapala lure. There was a lot of pressure on the fishing rod and reel as this beautiful giant fish of about 150 or 200 pounds dove deeper and soon after bit through the stainless steel leader separating himself from the would-be fisherman and the hopes of a fresh fish dinner. It was collectively decided the billfish that we thought we had was a Marlin. He was much too big and much more than we could handle even if we could have reeled him in.
Now minus one twenty dollar lure, it was time to set another Rapala lure and try again. With the new lure smartly trailing well behind Gypsea we noticed at least three very beautiful Yellow Fin Tuna about four to six feet in length swimming about 10 feet behind Gypsea. They hung around the stern of our boat for about 10 minutes and I’m sure they were laughing their Yellow Fin Tails off at the fisherman aboard Gypsea.
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