8/8/12

A definitive fall from grace today as our three day roll collapsed into an all day
spoonathon. Though I don't really have to be too critical of our results, the day in
general went in the toilet for everyone but for a couple of fortunate hits, it still
chapped to so successfully navigate around what little the zone had to offer.

We had some fish, forty five "mixed" to be exact so the day wasn't anywhere near a bust,
but the signs of the previous few days were all but gone as the bigger yellowfin apparently
decided to take the day off at our expense. As the saying goes "that's fishing"; no
surprise for the seasoned among us who have lived this scenario many times past.

The good thing is that the prior several days of solid production tempered any anxiety that
could have arisen in the face of a slow day of fishing; we have plenty in the RSW tanks
already to call it a successful outing. So the change of pace was taken in stride as we
plied the calm ocean in search of something, anything special.

Speaking of something special, or unusual better said, today's photo features a weird
denizen from the deep captured by a couple of our more zealous night fisherman. Logging
some additional darkness hours at the rail in hopes of capturing the mighty "King" (Xphias
Gladius) anglers Scott Oswald and Greg Moss were rewarded with this bizarre, ugly, but
tasty oilfish. It was a great conversation piece at the very least adding to the species
list in a way the guys really didn't expect. Though we haven't seen one in quite some time
these "oiler's" and their close cousins "Escolar" are actually quite common and are taken
offshore drifting at night fishing deep with both bait and heavy glow in the dark lures.
Tomorrow is a new day.

Tim Ekstrom

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