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.

eggsuckindog · #8 08-30-2010, 02:15 AM

We want to try a run over next summer, Susan's son married into one of the old clans on Green Turtle. They usually take the boat over around the first week of Aug so maybe we'll tag along.