My 1st Sailfish

[leelindsay]

This will be one of the most memorable fishing trips ever with my best friend and wife Kathy (one in the same). The day started out with a quick run down the beach to get some live bait. Got where the bait was along with several other boats and made a couple of casts with the sabiki rod and brought back one ribbon fish. A guy approached us and asked if we want a couple of dozen pogies so we took them and off to the fishing grounds. We got within a 1/4 mile of the area and I always like to troll up to and around different spots to see if any takers are out there. Nothing. We marked a couple of bottom spots when trolling so we went back to them and decided to bottom bounce. I only had some of my deeper water rigs made so we used them, 16oz lead. We caught a couple of black sea bass when my wife noticed something swimming at the boat, I looked over and wow nice dolphin and I saw another one with it. This is when the fun starts.... I am all wound up scream holy crap we gotta find something to throw at them....about that time I heard splash....my wife had just thrown her 16oz bottom rig with a pogie on it at the dolphin and wham! Fish on! I told her to keep fighting him and I am running around the boat all frantic looking for something else. I see a rod with a king fish rig on it, I slap a pogie on it and cast it out and wham! fish on! Now we are both fighting about 15-20# fish. After a few minutes of fighting I hear POP, my wifes braid snaps at the swivel, DAMN! She puts her rod down and comes and gaffs mine and in the box. After a couple of more drops and bringing up a shark we decide to go out a little deeper. We got out to some reefs and trolled around them. Nothing. Back to bottom bouncing. We were making our first drift across and I had put out a livey on a spinning rod just to see. We started our second drift we had 2 baits on the bottom when all of a sudden the spinning rod makes a qiuck zing. I told my wife that something was messing with it and about that time zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzing. I grab the spinning rod and set the drag and WOW this is a strong fish. Now the fun starts all over again. The fish is spooling me and we still have 2 rigs on the bottom, so in my calm joe cool manner (screaming like a little girl) reel those baits up, start the motors, get the camera, I'm getting spooled, reel the.... get the boat going, hurry hurry hurry! We managed to start chasing this fish. 45 minutes later we boat the 1st for Reel-Fin-Addict and my 1st ever SAIL!

[crash1371]

Awesome nice story and day you little girl

[one4water]

Nice Job! Nice Fish!

Maybe there is something to screaming like a little girl. A budy of mine did the same thing when he was fighting his first sail.

Hopefully there are many more sails to make their way to the Reel-Fin-Addict

[Trollnheel]

I would probably do the same thing! That's quite an acheivement