Ft. Lauderdale and the Bahamas

October 15th, 2009

This morning we took Mark and his wife out fishing from Omaha. It was a beautiful day! We caught live ballyhoo at “the can” and continued on our way. We headed offshore to about 350-400 feet and deployed a full set of live ballyhoo. We were slow trolling for about 35 minutes... no action.

I decided that I needed to use the head, so I had Chris lock up the reels and come up to drive, while I headed down below. It only seemed like a second, but while I was still in the restroom, I heard a loud thump hit the deck! It was Chris feeding a couple mahi mahi while I was gone. As I came out of the salon, Mark already had one up to the boat. Chris was back up on the wheel and I gaffed the fish, slinging him into the boat. The other one was still on the line and I missed the 3rd one that was eating the ballyhoo out of the rigger.