Wednesday 25th April

Same old hot sunny weather, same old 20 mph wind !

Just in case you're wondering about the title of the site, Gulp is a totally biodegradeable natural bait. We've not really had the right opportunities to use it much although we've been using it successfully whilst Yellowtail fishing. Anyhow, today Roy managed to catch a photo worth fish for us to post on the site, complete with Gulp baited hook hanging from its mouth.  Here's the proof that Gulp really does catch fish (it's a Porgy in case you're interested)

Ross, Keith and Harry were out with Chris. Not a totally successful day. The plan was to catch a Baracuda, then use that to catch some sharks and finish off the day with a couple of hours Tarpon fishing in the harbour. We couldn't find any Baracuda, we caught a few smallish sharks on Baracuda out of the ice box and then we didn't have a bite from the Tarpon. Almost sounds like a day fishing in the UK rather than a day in paradise but we had a great day with lots of jokes told and fishing stories recounted.To be honest it was a rest day after the last few days of being bounced around the ocean whilst fishing for Yellowtails etc. Tomorrow Roy is going to teach me how to Tarpon fish like the experts, so that should be fun although with only two days of the trip left I'm not sure that I want to spend one of them in the harbou. The problem with Tarpon fishing is that you have to hold the rod the whole time and you have to concentrate hard the whole time. That's fine provided that there's a few fish biting otherwise it's soul destroying.

Tommy and Dave fished with Manny and started the day by going offshore looking for Sailfish. They didn't catch any sails but they did catch a couple of Dolphin Fish (no, not Flipper or his mates). Here's Tom holding one of the Dolphins

They then moved to the Permit Patch and caught 3 Permit out of a total of 5 hooked, that's pretty good going because these hard fighting fish are experts at cutting your line on the rocks that they swim around. Once more the HUGE Hammerhead shark put in an appearance, this time just as the Skipper leaned overboard to tail a Permit. That shark is one scary creature. Here's dave with one of the Permit

Don't ask me why they're wearing fancy dress. Either they did it for a bet else it's just old timers disease catching up with them.

Today was Graham's last day, so he went out with his Number One Employee and mentor Roy. It was Roy's intention to inflict more pain on poor Graham by hooking a few more hard fighting monsters. Things didn't work out quite as planned because it seemed that every time they hooked a decent fish it was promptly eaten by toothy critters like Shark and Baracuda, in fact at one time it was nine nil to the fish. Roy salvaged the day by catching a Black Grouper of around 30 lb (that's nice), a monster Amberjack and a very photogenic Barjack. First the Grouper

And now the photogenic Barjack complete with the unphotogenic Mr Marlow (that's nice)

Graham had a frustrating day losing eleven nil, a similar scoreline to that achieved by his football team, Everton.