Aloha Les,
Funny stuff, wife letting you go fishing ... has she ever gone out with you fishing!
also great story and picture.
thanks again, Marty
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From: Leslie Saulibio <leke0513@yahoo.com>
To: fishingtheusaandcanada@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 8:44 pm
Subject: [fishingtheusaandcanada] Kwajalein Weekend Fishing Report
-----Original Message-----
From: Leslie Saulibio <leke0513@yahoo.com>
To: fishingtheusaandcanada@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 8:44 pm
Subject: [fishingtheusaandcanada] Kwajalein Weekend Fishing Report
The wife let me fish on Sunday and Monday, this
weekend. I think she wanted to do a lot of shopping
and didn't want me around, or maybe she had a weak
moment or two. Whatever, but I still went out twice
this weekend.
On Sunday, I took 4 guys who were here TDY out
fishing. All rookies with no big game saltwater
experience. Most of them were catfishermen and one of
them from Sidney NEB like Walleye. So I told them,
this is like Walleye fishing, we are going to do some
trolling. First thing out SAR Pass that Sunday
Morning, we had a violent hit on the starboard
handline. Nobody had gloves on and while they fumbled
around, a large Wahoo jumped and thrashed about 100
feet behind the stern. Finally somebody got their
gloves on and grabbed the handline, but too late, the
Wahoo threw the hook. After that, nobody took their
gloves off! An hour later after having made our way
through a pod of hundreds of dolphins, we found
ourselves trolling off South Pass. There were no bird
piles or any indication of fish schools. I had the
Twin Vee about 100 yards off the reef in 400 feet of
water, trolling 2 reels and 2 handlines at 10 knots.
Suddenly, the starboard reel, my Shimano 50 screamed
as super braided line peeled out. Just as quickly,
the port reel, a 12/0 Penn Senator loaded with 100 lb
test Mono screamed louder and it too had a fish on!
Then, the port side handline broke the rubberband
retainer and stretched taut...a triple banger! The
Shimano 50 already had 200 yards of line out and the
fish pulled out another 100 yards more, before, one of
them was able to increase the drag and start cranking.
The Penn Senator was also in full crank and the guy
on the handline was really struggling to pull in the
line, hand over hand. In any case, the fish on the
handline was the first to come in and it was a nice 20
lb Yellowfin Tuna. The other two came in and they
also were 20 lber Yellowfins. As I hoisted the last
one over the side, the last handline went off and
before we could start dragging that one in, a large
marlin came up and inhaled the yellowfin tuna.
Thankfully when it bit down on the tuna, the hook in
its mouth came loose and I got my lure back. We
quickly put the three fish into the 162 quart Igloo
Marine Cooler and put the lines back out, then
returned to the area where the bite happened. The
Tuna had left the area, probably scared away by the
Marlin. Anway, we continued to troll and picked up a
nice 30 lb Wahoo. That's not bad for 4 and a half
hours of fishing. We ended up with 14 ziplock gallon
bags of fish.
Monday Morning, I went fishing with my friends, Paul
Allas, Moses Moreno, and Jack Marshall. Moses brought
someone from his office with him. The 22 footer Twin
Vee felt a little crowded, but workable. On the way
out, I get not get the boat to plane and the best
speed was 18 knots. So we checked out the bilge and
sure 'nough, the starboard hull was six inches deep in
water, because the bilge pump was not working. We
came back into the marina and exchanged that rental
boat for another Twin Vee and off we went, a hour
late. As we came oceanside through SAR Pass, we
turned left and went to the East Reef, since the
weather guys said that the wind as down enough to
permit fishing on the that side of the atoll. When we
got there, we found 6 to 8 foot seas with white caps.
After half an hour of fighting the waves, we observed
a small bird pile, less than twenty bird, diving on
baitfish about 2 miles offshore. So we took off
toward the birds, going against the waves, the whole 5
minutes it took to get there. I started circling the
bird pile and didn't see any big fish feeding on the
bait at the surface. Suddenly, all four lines went
off! We had changed the handlines to smaller lures in
anticipation of Tuna, but it was not to be. The
handlines couldn't hold the fish because they had only
7/0 hooks on. The reels had 11/0 and 12/0 hooks on
that so the fish were firmly on. We boated 2 Wahoo,
each about 3 feet long, or around 18 lbs, each. Its
very unusual to catch Wahoo this far from the reef.
They normally like structure and will be found in 200
to 400 feet of water, next to the reef. There must
had been a floating log nearby. As we changed out the
lures for ones with larger hooks, I scanned the water
looking for signs of a floating or partially submerged
log. But I could not find it. We hung into a good
sized Mahi but when we put him in the cooler, the
rookie didn't close the lid and sit on it.
Consequently, the mahi banged the lid off and jumped
out of the cooler, back into the sea, slapping the
rookie accross his face with his tail on the way out.
Lesson learned, close the lid quickly and sit on the
cooler. Mahi's are too energetic! I guess the
Mahimahi didn't really want to be our dinner that
night. We continued to troll back and forth in that
area, eventually boating 10 Wahoo and two Mahimahi for
a total weight of nearly 240 lbs. We couldn't put
anymore fish in the cooler, so we decided to go in an
hour early. Oh, I also lost my gaff, a six footer
with a five inch stainless steel hook. Jack had
gaffed the last Mahi and was taking her forward to put
in the cooler when he slipped on the deck and dropped
the fish which immediately began flopping around
violently. The tailed kicked off the gaff and sent it
over the side. So I am in the market for a gaff. I
also lost two lures, one I have only had for a week!
Jack felt so bad about it that he gave me $80.00 for a
replacement. I tried to discourage him from giving me
the money, but he wouldn't hear any of it. This is my
fourth gaff I have lost in 8 years of fishing out
here. So, it didn't really bother me to lose this
one. Take a look at the pictures, I'm the one holding
the 12 inch Messermeister knife.
Aloha,
Les
Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands
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weekend. I think she wanted to do a lot of shopping
and didn't want me around, or maybe she had a weak
moment or two. Whatever, but I still went out twice
this weekend.
On Sunday, I took 4 guys who were here TDY out
fishing. All rookies with no big game saltwater
experience. Most of them were catfishermen and one of
them from Sidney NEB like Walleye. So I told them,
this is like Walleye fishing, we are going to do some
trolling. First thing out SAR Pass that Sunday
Morning, we had a violent hit on the starboard
handline. Nobody had gloves on and while they fumbled
around, a large Wahoo jumped and thrashed about 100
feet behind the stern. Finally somebody got their
gloves on and grabbed the handline, but too late, the
Wahoo threw the hook. After that, nobody took their
gloves off! An hour later after having made our way
through a pod of hundreds of dolphins, we found
ourselves trolling off South Pass. There were no bird
piles or any indication of fish schools. I had the
Twin Vee about 100 yards off the reef in 400 feet of
water, trolling 2 reels and 2 handlines at 10 knots.
Suddenly, the starboard reel, my Shimano 50 screamed
as super braided line peeled out. Just as quickly,
the port reel, a 12/0 Penn Senator loaded with 100 lb
test Mono screamed louder and it too had a fish on!
Then, the port side handline broke the rubberband
retainer and stretched taut...a triple banger! The
Shimano 50 already had 200 yards of line out and the
fish pulled out another 100 yards more, before, one of
them was able to increase the drag and start cranking.
The Penn Senator was also in full crank and the guy
on the handline was really struggling to pull in the
line, hand over hand. In any case, the fish on the
handline was the first to come in and it was a nice 20
lb Yellowfin Tuna. The other two came in and they
also were 20 lber Yellowfins. As I hoisted the last
one over the side, the last handline went off and
before we could start dragging that one in, a large
marlin came up and inhaled the yellowfin tuna.
Thankfully when it bit down on the tuna, the hook in
its mouth came loose and I got my lure back. We
quickly put the three fish into the 162 quart Igloo
Marine Cooler and put the lines back out, then
returned to the area where the bite happened. The
Tuna had left the area, probably scared away by the
Marlin. Anway, we continued to troll and picked up a
nice 30 lb Wahoo. That's not bad for 4 and a half
hours of fishing. We ended up with 14 ziplock gallon
bags of fish.
Monday Morning, I went fishing with my friends, Paul
Allas, Moses Moreno, and Jack Marshall. Moses brought
someone from his office with him. The 22 footer Twin
Vee felt a little crowded, but workable. On the way
out, I get not get the boat to plane and the best
speed was 18 knots. So we checked out the bilge and
sure 'nough, the starboard hull was six inches deep in
water, because the bilge pump was not working. We
came back into the marina and exchanged that rental
boat for another Twin Vee and off we went, a hour
late. As we came oceanside through SAR Pass, we
turned left and went to the East Reef, since the
weather guys said that the wind as down enough to
permit fishing on the that side of the atoll. When we
got there, we found 6 to 8 foot seas with white caps.
After half an hour of fighting the waves, we observed
a small bird pile, less than twenty bird, diving on
baitfish about 2 miles offshore. So we took off
toward the birds, going against the waves, the whole 5
minutes it took to get there. I started circling the
bird pile and didn't see any big fish feeding on the
bait at the surface. Suddenly, all four lines went
off! We had changed the handlines to smaller lures in
anticipation of Tuna, but it was not to be. The
handlines couldn't hold the fish because they had only
7/0 hooks on. The reels had 11/0 and 12/0 hooks on
that so the fish were firmly on. We boated 2 Wahoo,
each about 3 feet long, or around 18 lbs, each. Its
very unusual to catch Wahoo this far from the reef.
They normally like structure and will be found in 200
to 400 feet of water, next to the reef. There must
had been a floating log nearby. As we changed out the
lures for ones with larger hooks, I scanned the water
looking for signs of a floating or partially submerged
log. But I could not find it. We hung into a good
sized Mahi but when we put him in the cooler, the
rookie didn't close the lid and sit on it.
Consequently, the mahi banged the lid off and jumped
out of the cooler, back into the sea, slapping the
rookie accross his face with his tail on the way out.
Lesson learned, close the lid quickly and sit on the
cooler. Mahi's are too energetic! I guess the
Mahimahi didn't really want to be our dinner that
night. We continued to troll back and forth in that
area, eventually boating 10 Wahoo and two Mahimahi for
a total weight of nearly 240 lbs. We couldn't put
anymore fish in the cooler, so we decided to go in an
hour early. Oh, I also lost my gaff, a six footer
with a five inch stainless steel hook. Jack had
gaffed the last Mahi and was taking her forward to put
in the cooler when he slipped on the deck and dropped
the fish which immediately began flopping around
violently. The tailed kicked off the gaff and sent it
over the side. So I am in the market for a gaff. I
also lost two lures, one I have only had for a week!
Jack felt so bad about it that he gave me $80.00 for a
replacement. I tried to discourage him from giving me
the money, but he wouldn't hear any of it. This is my
fourth gaff I have lost in 8 years of fishing out
here. So, it didn't really bother me to lose this
one. Take a look at the pictures, I'm the one holding
the 12 inch Messermeister knife.
Aloha,
Les
Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands
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