The plan was to go kite fishing for sailfish. But mother nature doesn't always go along with a plan. And she didn't this time. Wind is needed to fly a kite and there was hardly a breath. So we had to come up with a Plan B which Seth Funt and I agreed was planer fishing. Mother nature didn't cooperate there either. Okay, time for Plan C. Find a deep piece of structure, in a vast desert, and jig it as the gulf stream moved us over it at 4 to 5 knots.
Once a structure was located we scouted it with the sonar and found a nice pile of fish. I positioned the Huntress (my boat) up current and down the jigs went. And that's when mother nature smiled on us and the epic battles began. For at least ten consecutive drifts we hooked up. I ended up catching and releasing seven impressive Amber Jack weighing between 45 and 65+ pounds. The last one I did battle with was probably the biggest, opened the hook and got off. I was using 40 pound braid with a 30 pound monofilament leader.
And here are pictures of some of the fish. There are no camera cheats here. Those fish on my lap are up against my shirt.
After this epic campaign mother nature smiles on us in the last hour and gave us wind so I was able to see the kite deploy and how to fish from it. The wind kept freshening so we finally beat it to port.
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