Living The Dream

 After a tough week at the office thing turn around for good….very good. All start on Nov  6 when Capt. Juan Torruella and I went deep sea fishing with Mr Lawrance Cook. Juan was all exited about fishing ballyhoo with circle hooks on a new rig and Omar love new stuff so here we go. It was mid quarter of the moon going up so I was not that confidence of a incredible action so we set light line like 20 pound test spin reels Thunnus and conventional TLD from Shimano. The action start with a quad or 4 mahi-mahi and 3 of them on circle hook one on j-hook. This was good stuff, I have heard that you can pull the hook easly on mahi-mahi when circle hooks are use. It was a ball all the mahi-mahi ware over 15 pounds and the bull was 34. After cleaning and some hi-5 we set the spread again. Some more trolling here we go again, a 225 pound blue marlin show on one of the teaser and Juan brought the ballyhoo next to it when I was pulling it out of the blue marlin, this technique is name switch and bait. Well you know you are not suppose to fight blue marlin on 20 pound test and even more crazy to use a spin rod with only 265 yards of line. I manage to spin the boat and chase the fish side way, stop the run and after one hour 15 minutes we land the blue marlin on a Thunnus spin rod from Shimano and after the fight the reel was ready for another one. On Sunday Juan and I jump again to guide Mr Scott Wilson for a birthday present for his dad. This time we were able to hook a 47 pound tuna but the detail is it was on 20 pound test and circle hook again…one hour and the tuna was on the boat. Very tough fish to work. We finish the day with a sail fish that were lost next to the boat on one of the jumps, but we were able to get the best out of it. This make the 44 billfish strike on First Lady and land 23.   

 In the lagoons fishing for tarpon we had a average of 4 to10 tarpon bites. On Sunday we were able to hook 4 tarpon and land all 4 tarpon on 8 pound test. Two of the fish were on the 40 pound range. The first 40 pounder took about 20 minutes to land and the second about 15 minutes. Yesterday in the afternoon I was guiding Mr. Venice and we were able to had 5 bites and land 3 tarpon, 2 were in the 25 pound range and the last tarpon was a whopping 60 inches short and 34 girth on a 20 minutes fight.

 Can some body explain how some people call them self names in order to attract customers and then not be able to support the names with acts. How some body call himself the number one billfish release when he only flag less that 5 billfish flags and has not land a sailfish all season long. Also people calling them self the biggest tarpon company and never guide a tarpon over 120 pound. This comments don’t give prestige to them self but to others when they can’t perform.

See You Next Tide

Capt. Omar Orraca

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