Skinydiver
09-05-2007, 11:09 PM
Alright, I know this is a lot delayed, but my computer crashed, and so I was busy trying to fix that, and didn't get around to editing the photos so that they would fit on Planet.
I was invited to go out to a remote island for the labor day weekend with team DTT and CWW180. CW and I hit the road on the way to Motabu port early on Saturday morning, and got on the fairy. The fairy ride was about 2 hours and some change. I couldn't wait to get in the water so I was mostly unsuccessful in trying to make the trip go by faster by sleeping. We got to the island at about noon, and I assumed we'd be in the water fishing by about 3 in the afternoon. I was right. We went out on DTT's small inflatable boat to do a reef hunt at the break which was about 1000 meters away. I was very excited, and was the first one in the water. The first thing I saw were two Ulua sitting in a crevasse. They looked like horses to me, and they were just sitting there. I was waiting on DTT to get over there because he had way more fire power than I did, plus a reel. After a couple of minutes of trying to get close enough to take a pic without scaring them away, they ended up leaving before DTT could get over with the big gun. At this point I had a feeling this trip would be a good one.
The fishing began. The vis was great, about 40 to 50 feet I would assume. The deepest drops were at about 35 feet, and there were large fish everywhere. We decided to try to stick together, and that didn't exactly happen. We split up in a matter of minutes. The first day my intentions were to shoot whatever I could that was good. There were trevally and what I thought to be giant trevally all over the place. I wasn't trying to hunt anything too big because I knew i didn't have a reel, and I noticed a cut about half way through my mono line just before we got in.
I was hunting in sandy areas with coral all around, and the fish were very interested in what I was doing to try to get their attention. On my second or third dive down, I hit a descent sized trevally of about 2 or 3 lbs tied him off and then continued on. Next I saw a larger trevally in the distance coming my way, so I dove down and did my thing. After about 30 second of holding my breath this dude swam right for me opening his mouth like he was ready for some food. The only thing he got was a 50 inch shaft right through both sides of his gills. He shook rattled pulled me down making it hard to surface, and swam me around in circles at the surface until I was able to get him between my legs to shove a knife through his brain. After that I was pretty well satisfied.
With 2 good sized trevally on my stringer. One of 2 or 3 lbs, and the other of at least 10 lbs. I headed for the boat to off load. Headed out for another hour or so shot a grouper and ran into some more giant trevally that were withing a few feet of me. I wasn't gonna shoot them with my questionable mono line being that I didn't bring any extra shafts. We packed up cleaned fish and headed for home. This Japanese dude that ran the restaurant across the street was more than happy to cook up that 10 lbs fish I caught free of charge and man was it good. We ate some other fish there that the other guys caught. It was a feast!
I was invited to go out to a remote island for the labor day weekend with team DTT and CWW180. CW and I hit the road on the way to Motabu port early on Saturday morning, and got on the fairy. The fairy ride was about 2 hours and some change. I couldn't wait to get in the water so I was mostly unsuccessful in trying to make the trip go by faster by sleeping. We got to the island at about noon, and I assumed we'd be in the water fishing by about 3 in the afternoon. I was right. We went out on DTT's small inflatable boat to do a reef hunt at the break which was about 1000 meters away. I was very excited, and was the first one in the water. The first thing I saw were two Ulua sitting in a crevasse. They looked like horses to me, and they were just sitting there. I was waiting on DTT to get over there because he had way more fire power than I did, plus a reel. After a couple of minutes of trying to get close enough to take a pic without scaring them away, they ended up leaving before DTT could get over with the big gun. At this point I had a feeling this trip would be a good one.
The fishing began. The vis was great, about 40 to 50 feet I would assume. The deepest drops were at about 35 feet, and there were large fish everywhere. We decided to try to stick together, and that didn't exactly happen. We split up in a matter of minutes. The first day my intentions were to shoot whatever I could that was good. There were trevally and what I thought to be giant trevally all over the place. I wasn't trying to hunt anything too big because I knew i didn't have a reel, and I noticed a cut about half way through my mono line just before we got in.
I was hunting in sandy areas with coral all around, and the fish were very interested in what I was doing to try to get their attention. On my second or third dive down, I hit a descent sized trevally of about 2 or 3 lbs tied him off and then continued on. Next I saw a larger trevally in the distance coming my way, so I dove down and did my thing. After about 30 second of holding my breath this dude swam right for me opening his mouth like he was ready for some food. The only thing he got was a 50 inch shaft right through both sides of his gills. He shook rattled pulled me down making it hard to surface, and swam me around in circles at the surface until I was able to get him between my legs to shove a knife through his brain. After that I was pretty well satisfied.
With 2 good sized trevally on my stringer. One of 2 or 3 lbs, and the other of at least 10 lbs. I headed for the boat to off load. Headed out for another hour or so shot a grouper and ran into some more giant trevally that were withing a few feet of me. I wasn't gonna shoot them with my questionable mono line being that I didn't bring any extra shafts. We packed up cleaned fish and headed for home. This Japanese dude that ran the restaurant across the street was more than happy to cook up that 10 lbs fish I caught free of charge and man was it good. We ate some other fish there that the other guys caught. It was a feast!