spring fever
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A prayer was answered and My wife and I were invited for a day trip on "The Retriever" Martha and Larry Warlemonts 62 foot custom Viking sports fisher. Laid down 10 years ago in New Jersey she has 8000hrs on her twin 1500 hp Detroit diesels. Top speed 36 knots, cruise at 26. Martha is a fishing fanatic-particularly for bill fish-unbelievable but she won 1.1 million this year(2013) in the Bisbee. Was trying to convince her to come up for the Bamfield Tuna shootout-LOl before we start I did not offer to pay for fuel or moorage etc.-I would have needed a loan just for that. She asked us what we wanted to fish for -I sensed her disappointment when my wife said Tuna-she said they were hard to come by but she'd try 7 Am-cabo harbour inspector checked all our fishing Lic. (never seen that before) And we were gone. I wondered about ice for the Tuna but of course the Boat has an ice machine that flows ice into the fish holds at 30 lbs an hour. We didn't clean up-the Tuna were illusive-we got 12 yellow fin all under 40 lbs-average probably 20-all on multiple hook-ups- I learned about splash bird set-ups, clones cedar plugs, x-raps-how the aray should be presented Etc etc. Saw more porpoise than I have ever seen before. My wife had a great fight from a 30 lb Dorado. We had an amazing time-I spent hours figuring what I'd do with that boat on WCVI but as I said to my wife even if you won a million bucks you could not operate that boat and her crew. So we are not entering any Lotto with a prize of less then 50 million. Tuna picures except for loins are hard to come by as the action was all multiples-no bloody decks here and the tuna immediately were iced and while we had lunch-cleaned-very civilized-the excitement was the same though!!!LOL so I won't yak anymore and let the pictures tell the story!!
