Frank Has Huge Day

Today, another repeat customer, Frank Bottia came to fish with us.  Frank was joined by his wife and two other couples.  The day started off slick calm.  We took our time getting bait as I knew the fishing would be tough until the afternoon.  After trying a few wrecks and only one amberjack to show for our efforts I decided to try and find the permit.  And boy did we find them.  A huge school of fish right on the surface.  The water was so calm that the permit would sometimes have their entire back out of the water as they swam on top.  In no time we had the two fish limit.  This time instead of leaving we decided to stay and catch and release some.  We caught and released four nice permit to over thirty pounds, including a triple header (something I have never done before)!  It was great fun, but we needed to find something else.  So, reluctantly, I steered the L&H away from the hungry permit school.  Less than ten minutes later we caught a few nice mahi.  As we headed north looking for a spot to fish the afternoon, my brother told me he was seeing tuna, but they would not bite.  I knew that we had great bait and we would be able to get some bites.  When we reached the area, Trav threw out a bait.  Seconds later four sails were up chasing Travs bait!  Jim and Trav sprung into action as I stayed with the pack of sails.  Soon we had all four sails on and jumping in all different directions.  Everyone did great and we were able to release them all.  We put the kite up and two big blackfin hit at the same time.  We boated the pair of tuna, set up again and were hooked up instantly!  The action continued for the next two hours and was just about as good as it gets.  Big kingfish and big blackfins were biting like no tomorrow!  When the smoke cleared, the fishbox on the L&H was filled to capacity!  The final talley for the day was 5 sailfish, 12 blackfin tuna (twenty-five to thirty-five pounds),  8 kingfish (four of them over thirty pounds), a few mahi, snapper, jacks, and 6 permit   (four of them released)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  It was a great day for Frank and everyone on the L&H!