Compared to our first three days fishing, the last two have been slow, particularly in terms of dolphin tagged. Weather conditions were ideal Sunday with little wind or waves. We tagged 7 dolphin and 4 were estimated to exceed 30". These fish were too big to bring into the boat and required us to use a longer tag stick while they were still in the water (as pictured above). Dolphin fishing was also cut short in the afternoon. We headed to deeper water in an attempt to catch a blue marlin and complete an elusive grand slam after catching 3 white marlin and a sailfish. We didn't find any blue marlin, but we almost hooked a very large bull dolphin which came into our spread just before we headed home.

Departure from port was delayed this morning due to a low pressure front moving through the area which brought heavy rain. Today was the first day biologist Don Hammond was on board, but unfortunately, after a late start, fishing was slow. We fished 5 hours and didn't get a single dolphin bite. Other boats in the area did not have much success either, and many did not land anything. The highlight of our day was releasing a nice white marlin. Tomorrow we hope conditions improve so we can find some big schools of dolphin and deploy a good number of tags.