I know I am not keeping in touch like last year but I will try to get back on track now that we are finally out of the slip. It took a call on the Vhf from our good friends Jay And Kat on Kat Den Rie to get our act in gear but with less than four hours notice and a quick propane run we were off the docks on Wednesday and headed over to La Cruz for fuel. We had been planning our departure and working towards it but just not throwing off the lines so now we were committed.
We both left La Cruz Thursday morning at 4am, yes am, sharp. We had great plans of making Chamela before nightfall and with a very light breeze in the morning and southwesterlies the rest of the day it became a motorboat ride. Seas were calm but rolly so we kept some sails up just to steady the boat.
Jay was the first to get his pole in the water but we were the fist to get a strike. I had laid down for an afternoon nap, Rog was on whale watch when we got the HIT! I heard it and immediately ran upstairs, my job is to reel in all the other poles so nothing gets tangled, Rog had put the boat in neutral and then looked to see that our fish had run the entire spool. This is the first time it had happened to us and amazing to see how fast it had happened.
Rog slowly began reeling him in while we watched him jump and fight the lure. Jay later told us it was a large bill fish that we had caught. Realizing we were still going to fast Rog let off the main and began furling the jib. We just had to slow down or we - drats he just shook himself free. Rog had fought him for a good 15 minuets before he was gone We got all the line and the lure back so without Jay there to confirm what he saw this would be just another fish story about the one that got away.
A short time later this menicing looking boat was bearing down on us I am sure intending to run us off his fishing grounds. Actually, he was just a shrimper headed Bach to Cheamela just like us, intent on getting in before dark.
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