My best man was heading from Florida to his ship in West Africa but luckily he has a very rubbery arm and it took about 2 mins before I got a call back saying he would be there that night.

With more gold and silver reels than we needed we were off at 5am for a very rough ride. We pushed the tender up to 34knots and headed off to Spanish Wells to collect bait.

Spanish Wells is a funny little place..... everyone looks the same....... Kind of like Kaiwaka

We met up with our bait guy and exchanged pleasantries while he put way too much bait in our tank!

Arriving on the seamount we found huge amounts of flying fish which was a great sign, unfortunately we couldn't find any birds which was less than ideal!

A set of dead baits were put out to start prospecting and not too long after a bill pops up behind the right long... then another on the dredge...... then a dorsal on both left baits. Trying to hook whites is an art form I have yet to master as they are big time window washers. With 5 knockdowns we managed to hook 2 of them and get them both to the boat. Not a bad way to start by getting a double of billfish but... still no birds or Tuna.

After re setting we shortly had a double of Mahi's come in on the riggers and join us for dinner.

And thats when we saw it! a pile of birds and 50lb tunas busting everywhere! so as not to disturb them we went up current, set up the drift and started throwing out nets of pilchards trying to get the Tuna over to us. the first livey sent down got wahoo'd and cut off. 2nd bait and we are tight to a fish on a smaller Stella 5000. As we are still setting up we failed to notice a big sport fisher coming in behind us aiming straight at the tuna. There was some very choice language being yelled  from us and another small boat that had joined in our drift but money can't fix stupid and they went straight through the school and put all the fish down. The fish we had on the stella started to come up and another Marlin. this time on a 40lb leader and 3/0 circle!

Once the tuna school had been destroyed by the big boat we continued on the chunk/livebaiting hoping to get the fish back up but after 3 hours all we had to show was 2 more Mahi Mahi.

By this stage the wind had picked up and with a 40nm trip straight into it we pointed the nose for home. we got a little wet and bumped around  but we made it home in time for a clean up and a couple of cold ones.

The next day we had planned to go bonefishing the next morning and after waking up a little fuzzy we were off on the next mission. We are lucky enough to have bonefish starting 1mile from our marina and after a few stops to check we found them schooled up and on the chew!

Mrs Mozz struck first

Then best man Alex came tight

I nailed 2 within minutes of each other and Alex and Taylor each picked off a couple more. we all stalked one double figure fish that was cruising solo into the shallows but couldn't get it to bite. 2 hours in we had 2 osprey come to the party and each plucked a bonefish out of the school sending them scattering in every direction and ending our session on the flats. Not a bad couple of days off in the place I have been lucky enough to call home for the last few years.

Please sort that out!

Thanks in advance