One mad mako

Yesterday was one of those very special days here in the Florida Keys that I dream about and I am sure when you book a fishing holiday you dream about as well  yesterday we all Fished the Dream. Stunning day clear blue skies calm seas and not hint of wind all day so boat packed to the gunnels pointed south to the tuna grounds. As you might expect we were not the only boat there but what it was nice to see was more than one boat into fish already. Not the sunrise bite I like on the tuna grounds where nearly all fish are on the top but as it was midday the fish were down a bit so out with the heavy metal and we found fish at about 150 to 200 ft. Not big but let me tell you these fish to nearly 10 lb pull way above there weight and later in the day I had one on a light 20 lb braid rod and that fight was insane. Then it started to happen during a fight one rod went solid then up to the boat came half a tuna and the cry went up shark. After my friend Lee’s epic trip here the shark rod was ready to go we had a take straight away with a very worried angler on the rod I helped things by saying my normal words the first hour is the worse. Derek was doing a fantastic job and despite some very long and deep runs the fish was soon to the boat and what a fish. As readers of this blog know I love my shark fishing but all my life one has eluded me the mako and yes I was looking right down the very toothy jaws of my first mako.

What a stunning fish very blue and white and what a sett of teeth and boy did he want to use them the boat and the de hooker all were given the mako treatment no tee bar here. Not big by mako standards they go well over 1000 lbs I would say near 100 lb but what a climax to a day on the tuna grounds and species number 112 to my boat here in the Florida Keys. Plonker of the year award has to go to me yours truly all this would have made fantastic video but when I fired up my new toy got the message no SD card DOH !!