Today we had Donny on board for the 2nd day of the TART tournament. The weather was different with winds out of the west. It was sloppy and choppy. The lures were having a hard time. I heard through the grape vine that the current was good and that it was moving inside again. We had a shot right away outside of the harbor on our way to the spot that we caught our fish yesterday. The fish jumped all over and we pulled the hook. I had found a place to fish. We pounded the spot and eventually caught a fish that jumped all over the ocean. Check out the jump shot we got! It gave Donny his first fish of the tournament and got us our 2nd. At 3:00 we had a fish come to the short rigger on the Polu Kai blue tube and I missed the bite. Mat saw the fish and kept saying “its a nice one” The fish jumped once but through all the white water I couldn’t tell how big it was. It went down deep and pulled and all we could do was wait. I made a few moves on the fish and tried to get it stopped and couldn’t. It got 400 yards of line out and we neared the dacron as it swam out to sea. Donny inched up the drag and inched up the drag and it still didn’t stop. Finally the hook pulled. We had put to much drag on it. It was at that point of the fight where we had to get aggressive with the drag and pulled the hook that was probably fowled. Day 2- we are still in first.
