We had our best tagging day of the season today off the North wall of the Pocket, five miles off Chub Cay. We heard there had been a good marlin bite in the previous couple days, so we dropped the riggers right off the edge of the flats. The dolphin were in tight and plentiful. We tagged 19 fish in 3 separate blitzes. We had 3-4 fish hooked up at a time with only two anglers. Captain Steve and Billy took turns tagging with the modified billfish foundation tag stick. We tagged all but one dolphin in the water. It just takes too much time to haul them in the boat and hand tag them. The bite was over by 10AM, so we headed over to Joulters to look for billfish. Had one white marlin come up on the pink squid teaser: Billy quickly dropped a hoo in front of his face but he swam off. We put three dolphin in the box and grilled one for dinner. It had pink flesh and was awesome.
We also attempted to tag more bonefish one day. A front was blowing through with wind and rain. Even with no sun, we saw fish but could not get a hookup. We will try again today to catch and tag more bonefish.
More news tomorrow.
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