Pheromones ??

I have a whole two days of before next party so try to catch up on a very full on last week with Jane and Richard. A question that’s always been in the mind of us male anglers what is it with female anglers and big fish. Ever since that day in 1922 when Miss Georgina Ballamtine broke the salmon record with a fish of 64lb we have suffered. OK the Florida Keys is a pretty good place to take the other half on a fishing holiday but why do they do so well. I have had to think long and hard on this, maybe there just good anglers, maybe its just because they do what I tell them, or maybe its just those damn pheromones. The other day just proves the point, it was a bit windy so we found shelter behind a bank some 12 miles back in Florida Bay. We are so lucky in the Florida Keys that whatever the weather we can find somewhere to fish. The water dropped from 3ft on the bank to 8ft so pick down and chum and oil out. Very soon the bait arrived and in the chum we spotted ballyhoo a top bait out they went on a classic mackerel stinger rig. Then the mackerel arrived not the kings of last week but very large cero and spanish and when I say large I mean large. First a 7lb spanish for Ricard these fish hit the baits so hard even coming right out of the water the take is so fast.

Then to prove my point of this blog Jane was on big time long hard runs this must be a big king but no a 10lb cero. Well done Jane not many people down here have ever seen a 10lb cero let alone caught one. One thing about this week Richard was a very good technical angler using his skills from fighting carp on light tackle to very good effect on the sea. Jane a new comer to sea fishing took to it all like a duck that’s never seen land and taught me some naughty Thai words when fighting big fish happy memories.