Saturday's Switch-up

Saturday morning was interesting to say the least, in more ways than one. First we had a mix up on Rum Runnin'. Today was day two for Scott and Lori Golden and their crew which totaled about 12 of their friends. Somewhere from here to the dock, we had a mix-up and they got on Rum Runnin. Only problem was, the Golden Group was booked on Anzuelo II for day 2.

Needless to say, I didn't figure this out until too late. I started to walk down the docks with Chad Taylor and his wife who had reserved Rum Runnin for the day and they were as shocked as I was to see another 4 clients on the boat they reserved. My bad.

After some apologies to both groups, we got everyone on their way. About 15 minutes later, as the boats are probably rounding the Arch and heading up the Pacific you can hear the sounds of incoming thunder storm. Luckily the boats were never in danger, but all the clients and everyone on the Marina had quite the show as lighting crashed off the coast towards the Sea of Cortez. As quick as it came, it was gone, but we did get our first 10 minutes of rain all year, and that was good.

As it turned out, both the groups from the switch-up did great. The Golden group had a double header on Marlin and it worked out perfect because of the twin fighting chairs on Anzuelo II. Caught and released both of them and came back to tell me how great of a day it was. Chad Taylor and his wife, kept the streak going on Rum Runnin and came back with 6 nice Dorado's.

The next group was John Black and his buddies from Texas, who were referrals from my good buddy Thomas Lacy. John and his buddies may have set the record for strikes on a RedRum boat on one day. John and the guys came back and said they had a good day, 3 Dorado. The true story was when Captain Marshall came back. He was really animated when telling me about his day. "Ryan, we must have had 35 strikes. We were sharpening hooks, changing the length on the hooksets, changing trolling speed. We could not get the hooks to set." I was chuckling a little bit, and certainly not at John Black and his crew's success or lack their of, but at Captain Marshall. I assured him that even while he gets to fish one of the most amazing areas of the world every day, from time to time, the ocean is going to win.

Let's see what tomorrow brings.

-Ryan