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Headed home for ski season.
Left the island 2 weeks ago. My buddy Paul left for good but not before we had a few good days. Forgot my camera the day I landed a real nice bluefin on the outer reef off of Eclipse pt. Another guy flew in the day my flight was delayed so we got a chance to fish for a few hours the next day before I left. Since we saw a 60lb GT that day inside the lagoon he has seen it a few times but he has been rigged for bones. The fish scared the shit out of me as he came up behind me. He showed twice in about an hour and both times got to 10 ft from me. Water was almost knee deep and his dorsal fin was above the surface. Massive fish I am sure Eric will be able to chase down before I get back in May.
If someone can tell me what these are I will send you a new DG t-shirt.
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On the far left of this one we were casting for bones when the monster GT swam by twice.
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A nice view of Eclipse pt on the bottom of the pic. With west island, middle island, east island and Barton pt from bottom to top. Barton is where I hooked into the big Gt after an epic travel day on foot and bike. The area on the bottom is the outer reef we fish at low tide when there is not a big swell from the NW.
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parting shot until I return in May.
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Sunday near the donkey gate
Three of us made out way south towards the donkey gate. There are wild donkeys on the atoll and there is a gate about 12 miles form downtown that keeps them from roaming the whole island. SO we park and start walking south on the flats. It was about 3 hours before low tide and there was not quite enough sun at 0800 for real fishing. I just started walking in the direction of where the big bonefish were found the day before. As soon as I was able to see well enough to start looking for fish.
Soon we were into the best bonefishing I have ever seen. There were so many schools we just walked right through them if there were no big ones to throw flies at.
My first of the day.
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A nice head on view of one a bit later in the morning.
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Before Eric started to head back for his car do do his noon rounds, we were all catching steady fish in the 5-7 lb area. we were not even casting at anything smaller than that.
A bit later Eric returns from his rounds and before he works his way to me he starts screaming to me from about 75 feet. His 10wt is bent over like Mushmouth's rod that broke off on that bug blue. Backing is fucking tearing off his reel like I have never seen. He is yelling about something. I turn to reel in, away from the school I am casting near, and as I turn back he has his head down and is sulking reeling his line back in. I walk over and talk to him and he tells me about the bone fish he hooked. He swears it was 40 inches. The way it was tearing line off that gulfstream I believe him. The fish took off right for the reef and simply broke off his 20lb flouro. We are going to try and run 33lb next time out.
After a while we figured we would keep on looking for new areas and continued south once more towards where the cars were not parked. A few small bones and one nice blue and it was time for me to head back to work.
Fresh off his stint with SEAL team 6.
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