Hi All, From Sardinia, Mediterranean Sea

[pmagrady]

Hi Aldo

Glad to see you made it over here. Nice jack you have there. Do you jig them up, or live bait them?

[aldo]

Hi MrPat!

Trolling with live bait (mullet)...

[aldo]

A nice couple

This is a 26 pounds dentex

Winter time...

Unfortunately the Pursuit is still virgin...

[HOTSPOT]

Welcome aldo. Those are some real bruisers!!

[Barryd]

Welcome.

Beautiful area of the world.

Barry

[DDHand]

Welcome Aldo!

A question about the Jacks, do they have parasites (small "worms") in them? The ones around here do but the ones in the Gulf of Mexico do not have them as bad (I understand).

[aldo]

That's a good question. Usually they haven't. Just once I caugth one full of 'worms' on its skin. It was a big one, around 60 pounds, but with a very old scar from a dolphin bite (from the shape of the bite), cutting a large chunk of the caudal fin. I caught it very close to the bottom that isn't usual for amberjack. I guess that, due to the wound, that amberjack had to change its behaviour, ambushing its preys in a environment close to the bottom and with a very static approach, becoming an easy target for parasites.

I'm afraid you can't see very much from the picture below, but that was the subject of this story...