The knot tying chronicles... Act 2

I know the story is riveting and many of you are on the edge of your seats just waiting to see what happened on day two of Uncle Jim's fishing adventure. Well who am I to keep you waiting.

Uncle Jim was joined by his good friend's Mason and Dave today, they both flew in from Boston yesterday afternoon and were ready to enjoy some time on the water. Jim, Mason and Dave joined Captain Manuel aboard Ziggy today and the plan was to try to hit up some of the Yellowfin schools that had been popping up around San Jaime Bank and the Golden Gate the last few days. Captain Manuel has never been accused of being afraid to make a long run if he thinks the fishing is better at a particular bank, but the plan was to stay relatively close on Monday. Well, I guess there is a great reason that there is no translation for the word "plan" from English to Spanish. After hearing about some fish over the radio, Captain Manuel made a run and at the end of the day was almost 45 miles offshore. One would think this would give Jim, ample time to study the knot tying techniques of the crew, but not so much. End of the day tally was 45 miles offshore, no fish, no bites, no knots. You can imagine the excitement and enthusiasm in my uncles tone when I told him of the boat that got back around Noon that had caught 2 Marlin right out front of the Arch, less than 2 miles from shore.

This just goes to show that even family members get skunked from time to time. While we do produce some of the best fishing in the world, at times it is still fishing and not catching in Cabo.

As for the rest of the RedRum boats today, some had better success than the salty Donovan from Massachusetts. Geoff Bacci, Mike Reding, Neil Ackerman and Michael Pakkus are all down from Chicago, Illinois celebrating Geoff's 30th birthday. These guys came in to the office in the morning like they had come straight from Cabo Wabo, and they quite possibly may have. Well, in good spirits and full of good spirits can either be a recipe for disaster or a thing of beauty. Today it was a thing of beauty, the guys had great luck with Captain Ramon and his Mate Juan, finding the Yellowfin early and catching several nice fish. They spotted a few Marlin throughout the day, but just couldn't get them to bite.

The fish that wouldn't bite was the case for Captain Cesar today aboard RedBeam. Cesar hosted Andy Buchholtz and his 4 buddies from Madison, Wisconsin. (Now that I think about it, Andy must have been a referral from my good buddy Brian Adam in Madison. Special shout out to Brian!) Well, Andy and the guys only chose to fish for a half-day and that limited their ability to get out to where the Tuna had been. Captain Cesar had to stick around the arch and lighthouse to maximize the fishing time, and while they spotted several Marlin, they just couldn't tease them into eating.

...stay tuned, scene 3 of the Knot Tying Chronicles will be tomorrow.

-Ryan