No fishing last weekend, went to Lisbon to be present at my 2nd daughter birth and stayed there for a couple of days before Mommy left the hospital.
Daddy now has to divide is attention over two daughters
Got back to Luanda to finish some work related tasks before Xmas and end of the year and managed to schedule my last 2010 weekend fishing on Saturday, next Wednesday will be in Lisbon again and will stay there, in the cold, until mid January spending some quality time with the family
My brother in law will also spend is xmas and new year eve in Lisbon and I also invited him to come along on this quick fishing trip in sunny Luanda
Did some trolling around an oil rig but just got a few Dorado, moved to try get some jigging and popping action over some spots
First Drop and here is the Synit 250 at work
Double strike Jorge (my brother in law) also had a fish bite is jig
This guy got me tired early in the morning, another fatty AJ
Jorge also got a nice one although smaller, but more than enough to have him sweating
Another drop and another Double Strike, I got this "Morianga" grouper
And Jorge got another AJ this time a bit smaller
Next drop and I got another fish on the line but like I did not check my leader and probably due to abrasion it broke while fighting another fish (I always tell everybody to check their leaders after every fish but I did not do it
and here is the result )
Now the stupid part, I am a big believer on PR Knots, some time ago when on a rush I used to use Albright Knot, but at the time I was fishing 80lb braid, now I am fishing 40lb.
Had some "experts" on a SA forum saying why do you do PR on the boat you are going to miss the "hot bite", I use Albright and so on....
In a hurry instead of spending 5 minutes on PR I went for the so called "expert" advice and did Albright
Murphy law, suddenly fish on and boy this guy was a fighter it took line and line and line, I would recover a bit and then it would start again, probably the biggest AJ of the last couple months and of course this had to happen with Albright and Murphy law acted, the line broke at the knot
Why do I listen to this guys? I should know better, the day you relax and pick a shortcut had to be the day big momma would appear
I got so annoyed that I decided to guide Jorge to some Dorado popping action and forget about jigging, went to search for some buoys, and Jorge managed to land a couple of nice Dorado
Here is one of the buoys
Here is one of the popping Dorado
And another
On the way home we stopped at another jigging spot but it was too windy, we managed to get a double strike but with all the wind our lines got crossed and I accidentally cut Jorge line and also lost my fish
Now I have a problem, most of Tackle Whore early Xmas gift jigs, made especially for my Synit rod, are gone and I really loved the ones like this one on the left, I will have to get some more because next February I want to catch that Big momma that got away and this time with a proper knot
Now I am going back to the full time Daddy task until 2011 and I would like to wish you all a Merry Xmas and Happy new year.
