to Fiji on E'eva
15 June 2010
just another day sailing
Up at 7am and i put the line out, w have run out of Rapala's so i'm using a little weighted gig-head i got from hunting and Fishing in Kerikeri.
Left over Cornbeef and nanbread for breakfast then the reel started to scream.
This was some fish, even with the drag on full the line kept going, i held my thumb on the reel and finally got it slowed down.
about 40 minutes of winding and playing finally got a nice size Mahimahi on board.
i gaffed it and as we learnt last time not to bring it on board until it had stopped bleeding.
By 3pm we had a nice stack of fillets for lunch dinner and more raw fish. all was set for a very pleasant couple of days.
There was a big old lazy southerly swell rolling along under us and we were sailing between mountains one minute and the on top of them the next.
it's the strangest place to be, you come out on deck and you're sailing a long in a little circle of sea, maybe 8 miles across and you're right in the middle. There is nothing to see except sea and maybe a bird or two. you can't tell if you're going east or west if there is no sun, you rely on the GPS and plotter and a little 'X' on the chart to tell you where you are.
The chart tells you that you are 3 or 400 miles from anywhere and you're just bobbing along in this very large piece of blue.
E'eva is a great little boat and she doesn't care if she's going north of south, you just set the autohlem and enjoy the ride.
ok, that enough thinking....