Shock horror, we woke up to pouring rain. Luckily it only lasted 10 minutes and it's been sunny for the rest of the day, although it's been pretty breezy again. Keith had made prior arrangements to go and make a film in Islamorada, and Harry has now left us to begin the holiday with his wife, Wendy, who flew in last night. That left just 4 of us. Tommy & Roy fished aboard Jack Kelly's boat and Jim and I fished with Damon.

Tommy and Roy fished the harbour for tarpon. The final score was Roy 2, Tommy 1 and Jack 1. Tommy also had a kingfish about 20 lb. It was quite a hard day wherever you fished today. We could hear the various skippers over the radio bitching about the poor fishing. It happens, that's the beauty of fishing for as many days as we do, we can suffer the odd bad day and still get lots of good ones. I feel sorry for anybody who has only booked a single day and happens to hit one of these doldrums days.

Jim and I fished with Damon and we went offshore again looking for sailfish. It was a slow old day. Jim hooked a hammerhead shark which he played for about 30 minutes before it cut through the leader. I lost a nutty sailfish that was probably only on the line for a couple of minutes. It spent the whole time tail-walking from one side of the boat, right around the back and eventually came adrift on the opposite side to the one where it was hooked. I know that sailfish jump a lot but this was ridiculous, its display of aerial antics had us in stitches. I did manage to land a nice tuna plus a baracuda and lost one other unseen enemy.

We're hoping that this wind will drop which will enable us to get out in the Gulf and fish some of the wrecks but the forecast isn't too hopeful at the moment.

As usual, some pictures. Click on the picture a couple of times and you'll see a bigger, better image :