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This time I did everything right, for sure! Jerry picked us up at 6:30 AM and we drove over and picked up our fourth seat, Dave, who was staying at Laguna Del Tule. Don and Caroline had met Dave and his wife Cindy when they were out for breakfast the other day. Dave is a retired High School teacher who lives in Coquille, Oregon. We were on time and so was Dave! Packed to the gills in Jerry’s truck we drove to Barra and loaded the boat.

Today, Jerry had a plan. We ran out to about the 8 ½ mile point and then we rigged our lines. In fact Jerry placed the first line in the water and immediately we had our first fish. (Note in the photo of Dave and Caroline that there are no other lines in the water.) Dave landed the first fish and then the action continued. In all we landed six Dorado in the two hours that followed; four real nice ones and two small fish. The two smaller ones we kept, only because they were hooked so bad that they would not have lived. Even though they were small they still provided two real nice filets apiece.

After the first two hours of catching, we started fishing. We followed the trash line and tried to entice more fish out, but the bite was off. During the next several hours we saw sailfish, dolphins, and lots of kelp floating, but we had no other strikes the rest of the day.
Jerry kept tabs on the other boats out on the water and he said no one caught any Dorado, and there was only one sailfish reported caught. The one sailfish was caught 20 miles out, so we were not even close to that area.

At the end of the day we ran downwind back to port with our catch of six. Jerry filleted the fish and we took home six nice sides of fish. David took the rest of the filets and Jerry bagged the egg row. The count ended up three males and three females. It was the usual type of day with the best Captain in Barra.

The Mission:

8) You driving a boat.