The Steffen Spring Break-Day Three of Fishing

Amy was not feeling well today and decided to stay home. Thus, of course I knew we were in for an exciting day.

Lisa was up early to prepare coffee, put on her make-up, a pink dress and her secret weapon.

Today we headed a little South of where we first fished and only 27 miles out. We were told that fishing had slowed dramatically but of course we were on the Frenzy. It was over an hour before we had the first sailfish in the boat.

After about another hour without a sign of a fish, I sent secret weapon number one (Capitan Ian) to the bridge with orders to “put us on some fish”. In short time he had us on two more sailfish.

I told Lisa it was her turn so she made a pass to the stern of the boat and allowed the scent of her Coco Chanel Madamoiselle fish attractant to drift over the waters. This is secret weapon number two because next thing I saw was a large dorsal fin crashing the baits headed for the stern of the boat. I grabbed the pitch bait on the 30 and Marco politely asked me to get it out of the water. Suddenly there was a tremendous dorsal fin within 10 feet of the boat moving fast. Marco swings a lateral cast with the pitch bait on the 50 and the fish takes the bait 5 feet from the boat as it´s moving towards the bow. Marco slams the hook about three times and it´s game on. Seconds later the fish is dancing 150 yards behind the boat and headed out. Since Lisa had teased this fish in with her perfume (I swear it was trying to get in the boat with her), we put her in the chair. After the lines were cleared, Jose backed her down on her fish and within 15 minutes the amazing crew of the Frenzy had leadered a blue marlin estimated at 400 pounds!!! We didn´t get many good pictures of the fish and since it was still green, so we let Lisa continue the fight. She worked hard for another 30 minutes and she and the crew brought the fish in close once again. We got more pictures and I tried a little movie making. I´ve added one of them here and hope it works for you.

We continued fishing and had Ian caught another sailfish. This time he sat in the chair by himself and reeled the fish all the way in by himself. We saw a huge pod of spinner dolphin and more tuna but couldn’t hook up this time. We didn’t stay on them long as we wanted to try for a grand slam since we had a marlin and sailfish in the boat.

I continued to hook some fish and miss some as well, as I’m learning this new way to fish. I did land one myself when we had a double on. So the final count for the day was eight sailfish released (We had at least twice that many bites). And the first marlin released on the new Frenzy by a woman in a pink dress wearing Coco Chanel. Did I forget to mention she fixed her make-up after landing her fish?

The Frenzy continues…. Maybe fly-fishing on

Sunday!