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Knowing we had a big day ahead,                           rod went away with a good sized

    we headed to bed.                                         Bonito.  We also managed to get

    We woke up early Friday morning                           a nice Couta before moving on to

    with pearler weather conditions                           pull Coners and Rapalas.

    and loaded the rods and gear and                          We pulled Coners in very deep

    headed down to the beach.  The                            water in the hopes of picking up

    launch looked like a lake with a                          a Dorado but instead we had a

    very small shore break which gave  massive Black Marlin come up

    us an easy and safe launch.  With                         and attempt to take the Coner.

    the sea being so flat, it wasn’t                          Unfortunately the hook pulled and

    difficult to find bait because                            the Marlin left us.

    there were bait balls all over the

    surface.  We loaded quality bait                          With no other action after the

    and made the decision on where                            Marlin, we decided to pull the

    to fish.  Using intel from the                            spread over the same reef where

    previous weeks fishing activity,                          we got fish earlier in the day.  As

    we took off for the first mark                            we came over the reef, we went

    called Vegetation.                                        on with a Couta on a Rapala which

                                                              we boated safely.  Spirits were

    We arrived with the best variety                          high but we knew we had to carry

    of baits and when none of them                            on so we put the spread back out

    were touched, we knew we had                              and went back over the reef.  The

    to change the game plan.  We                              rod went away with a 9kg Wahoo.

    decided to head out to deeper                             4 species in one day got everyone

    water.  After working the deeper                          excited but the day wasn’t over

    line, we managed to hook a 16.8kg  yet.

    Queenfish on the Tails Up Bucktail

    Jig.  I got his arms stretched

    but boated the fish much to

    everyone’s our relief.  Just as the

    Queenfish hit the deck, another



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