Its just before Noon on Monday 4/30/12 COG 191dMag SOG 5.3kts Sunny, 80% cloud cover, and we are seeing rain on the radar. Wind is SW at 5kts. We are motorsailing. Hoping we'll be sailing before too long.

The photo is of a lovely 6ft sailfish that we caught at 10am this morning. He nearly stripped all the line off of one of my reels. Why do they always seem to hit the small reel? They also always seem to like my home-made lures. I made a lure out of the end of a plastic tube that another lure came in...makes lots of bubbles and they seem to love it.

Right after the big on in the picture took off with a lure, we hurried to bring in the other 3 lines. But we were not fast enough. A second sailfish hit on another line (my other small reel of course). The second one did a fantastic tail walk right up to the stern of the boat from about 40ft behind the boat. It was incredible--would have made a great video. When he got up to the stern he shook the hook--probably a good thing. The fight for the first sailfish lasted about 30 minutes and I released him after we got him up to the boat and took the hook out. Stephen shot the nice photo of one of his tail walks.