Well! This morning my alarm went off at 6am signaling that it was time for me to wake up for a fun-filled morning of fishing! I considered going back to sleep and skipping out but I dragged myself from bed and down to the dive shop. And boy am I glad I did! The morning was flat calm and within twenty minutes of dropping our lines we felt a tug on the line!! “What was it?” you may be asking yourself. It was a Sailfish! A huge one! Jumping out of the water! Wriggling for its freedom! But it managed to slip away.
A half hour later there was another pull on the line. This time it was a Dogtail Tuna. A beautiful specimen, if I do say so myself. About two feet long, really heavy! We reeled him in and tucked him away for safe keeping, just in time to see another tug! A Giant Trevally! Pulled that guy in too. What a day!
Then, just as we were about to pack it in and call it a day, one of the lines starts spinning out of control: we’ve caught yet another! And this time we think it’s something big… I look out into the ocean and I see another fish jumping out of the water. “MARLIN!!” I shout in my excitement! After a 20 minute fight we haul him into the boat, fighting and flailing and whipping his giant sword of a snout around wildly! Another sailfish, is what it was! 7 or 8 feet long! Absolutely beautiful.
A wonderful, wild morning is what it was, and we got to shore just in time, as the rain starting pouring down only moments later. This rain is a sad signal because it means we will not be heading back to Denarau this afternoon for the Christmas party. Sigh. But I’m hopeful. Maybe it will clear up in the next few hours and we’ll be able to set sail. Doubtful, but maybe. We’ll see….
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