We (myself and my kid brother) launched just in time for the 05:30 h whistle for Clube Maritimo's 2nd leg of their Ford/Interauto championship.
I decided to troll with both at all times just to experiment my fuel consumption.
Water temp was 27.7o C early in the morning and progressed to just above 28o C during the day.
After some "peeing" problems with my starboard motor which were quickly solved with a rigging needle, and a bit of rain we were good to go.
Some large (3 m) swells were encountered on our way to the grounds, which delayed our fishing and made us waste a bit more fuel.
Our plan was to go to an area called B1 (19-24 m), which produces couta and other game fish. This being a species comp, sounded like a good plan, which would be followed by chasing billfish in the deep.
By 09:00 am we had 3 couta on sards which would gives us points, so we decided that it was time to go deep.
It turn out to be a very slow day. Clean water was found in the 55-60 m contour and we tried all the tricks on the book. Not a single strike apart from a small YFT which fell for my wine cork halfbeak+bird (
http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/index.php/topic,3314.msg39632.html#msg39632 - which made me quite happy!).
I decided to call it a day at 15:30 h and made our way straight to club.
At the end, I used 1.4 L/nm compared to my "normal" consumption of 1.25 L/nm!
Sorry about the poor quality of the pics.
Lessons learned:
1. Get a good night's sleep before you go fishing!
2. It seems like I use more fuel trolling with two motors!
3. Bennie's Slant 42 and Cona 40 swim and smoke 100%!
