Nope! My wife does not like to go fishing, but she
sures likes the fish I catch!
Les
--- martypalucska@aol.com wrote:
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> Aloha Les,
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> Funny stuff, wife letting you go fishing ... has she
> ever gone out with you fishing!
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> also great story and picture.
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> thanks again, Marty
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> -----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
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> 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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