Well, I usually say too much about too little, but this time I have lots to say, but will try to make it short - right! I should have been posting as we traveled through time the last few weeks!
Left Las Vegas Shoe Show and came directly to Key West last week, met up with Mike and the boat, luggage got lost, but no biggie, I had packed a small extra bag in the truck just in case!
Woke up Sunday to Mike being older than me, get to enjoy that for 6 months till I catch up again. We celebrated his birthday with a day on the boat, catching bait and running the engines. The next three days were so perfect, calm hot sunny and windless! We enjoyed three days out fishing and catching bait, good dinners, and early bedtimes, Yep, you are reading this correctly!
By Wednesday, Mother Nature woke up, and we were hit with 40 mph winds, cold temps, and rain, just as the rest of our fish friends were arriving. We celebrated Scotty B's 50th bday at the Paella Fest at ElSibonney, where 26 of us showed up and ate and laughed. Dinner was followed by drinking, dancing, and playing pool at Capt Tony's, till very late, but big fun by all, including our monkeys, Team Donzi, Capt Hook, those crazy Taylor's from That's my Dog, Team Simrad of Capt Monkey, his wife Michelle and their little one, Sean, I mean Crew Member Sean, Big John my teddy bear boyfriend and his crew from Rat Pak, and a few other key players.
Marine Forecast Day One:
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT
TODAY
MAINLY NORTH WINDS 20 TO 25 KNOTS.
SEAS BEYOND THE REEF 5 TO 7 FEET...EXCEPT 7 TO 9 FEET NEAR SOUTH OF
DRY TORTUGAS. SEAS INSIDE THE REEF 2 TO 4 FEET. NEARSHORE WATERS
ROUGH.
SKA decided to cancel day one and just fish day two, for safety as there was still a small craft advisory for the entire weeekend, as the winds had barely stopped howling, they were still blowing over 25 mph. But fishermen have big ego's and SKA opted for a vote, my vote was skip day one, but those folks lost by two, so off we went the next am. We did what we had to do, we ran 80 miles in seas, and when we got to the fishing grounds, and put our insides back inside, the seas were steep and tall at about 8 - 10 foot and rolling. Our first and biggest bait hit the water, and got immed inhaled, and got immed free as he cut it off with his tail.The remainder of the day, we fought jacks, barracuda, and sharks, and finished the day up the reef towards home, in slightly calmer waters, bait everywhere, luck no where. Team Loose Lucy Sebago, Day One Pro Event: 0 goose egg, skunked, stink, stank, stunck - LOSERS !
Day Two we did not run as far, all we could do now is catch one big fish, without having a fish on day one, we simply could not win, but we gave it our all. We had a few good strikes, but no good fish, till mid morning, then we hooked up two or three in a row, all good strong fish, weighing in at about 32 lbs. We continued to try for something bigger, as two of our comrads close to us, caught 45 and 48 lb fish, but we did not improve. 80 or so aggregate pounds won the 40,000 + prize, last tournament here we had that beat by ten - ARG! But there were not alot of big fish weighed in, and very few teams weighed in each day,so we are still alive in the year long series. A twenty lb fish on Day One would have put us in the money here, but.....that's fishing folks!
Moving on now to two days with my neice Erica and her roommate Katie, both on college spring break from Bowling Green Univ in Ohio, where they left 10 inches of snow! They are great to hang out with and I know we will have alot of fun! These girls are awesome, we have lots of fun events planned!
Will check in again soon.
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