Back from the Abacos

Rainmaker · #1 08-14-2010, 12:05 AM

Pretty good trip. Weather was great, fishing was good. Boat ran well.... up until I was heading home but I will save that for the repair board.

Best fish of the trip was a 16 pound yellow eye we picked up on the last day. What a pretty fish and even better are the nice thick snapper filets. We got a few nice AJs and loaded up a smoker in the bahamas so we had some smoked fish for the ride home...

Take a look at the link for some pics of a shot of the boat and a few fish.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb2pG...=youtube_gdata

Islandtrader · #2 08-14-2010, 09:08 AM

I'm impressed...you could open your very own fish market

BigLew · #3 08-14-2010, 09:46 AM

Great trip! Thanks for the video; very well done!

PS- Did you leave any fish for the natives?

Rainmaker · #4 08-14-2010, 08:54 PM

I think the natives will be fine. They don't go deeper than they can freedive anyway. Most of them can't figure out how to run a fishing rod and find a spear is much easier to work with.

On the other hand, I would much rather run a rod and reel and keep Seacraft between my legs and the sharks.

Fr. Frank · #5 08-15-2010, 10:01 PM

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I think the natives will be fine. They don't go deeper than they can freedive anyway. Most of them can't figure out how to run a fishing rod and find a spear is much easier to work with.
On the other hand, I would much rather run a rod and reel and keep Seacraft between my legs and the sharks.

I don't know. I've run a Seacraft over there many times and then used both rod-n-reel, AND spear to bring in the fish .

Biggest red snapper I ever caught was with a pole spear on the WWII B-26 bomber wreck just SE from the Bacardi docks on New Providence Island. 5' pole spear with a 15" 3-prong Paralyzer tip got me a 22 lb red snapper. (That was when I lived at Compass Point on New Providence in the Bahamas, and worked for Most Holy Trinity church. I was diving from an 8' Avon inflatable with a 2.5 hp Seagull OB)

eggsuckindog · #6 08-17-2010, 11:58 PM

What Island did you stay on? boy the weather sure did look good

Rainmaker · #7 08-18-2010, 11:56 AM

We stayed on Little Abaco, in FOXTOWN. Normally I stay in a little fishcamp hotel but we got a house down the road a bit instead because the hotel was booked up. The weather was great, we dodged a bit of rain every day but only got hit once for 15 minutes in the 8 days we were there. The ocean was dead flat calm for the week and with all the clouds around it never got too hot.