By far better conditions today. Lars proposed a solution to the “Tayana rivers” problem, a feature of our yacht draining the sea water that finds its way into the sidedeck into the cockpit seats making everything there – including us – soaking wet. We now have dry upholstery to sit on.
Yesterday evening we caught a beautiful and about 25 kg (yes twenty five ) mahi-mahi. It took a bite at our pink octopus lure and was pulling our trolling line at an alarming pace. It had already pulled out about 250m of line when I took control of the fishing rod (was taking a nap at the time). After a 15-20 minutes fight with the fish I succeeded to bring it close to the boat. The canoe stern shape of the boat doesn’t offer a lot of space at the stern so only one person has enough space to fish and that space was occupied by me with the fishing rod. Not an easy workplace to hook the fish and bring it in. nevertheless after several tries by both Peter and Lars, Peter succeeded to catch the fish with the gaff hook and even to temporarily land it on the bathing platform. But at the critical moment the cheap (Chinese?) hook disintegrated and we observed the by then dead fish disappearing into the ocean with part of the hook stuck in its head.
After the first disappointment we succeeded to make a new robust gaffing hook out of a wooden broomstick a painters roll hook and some jubilee clips. The new hook is much stronger and we are looking forward to our next catch.
Panos, Peter and Lars