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Had a crazy week fishing and snorkling around St John island. Did research before I left, knew that squid would catch a lot of species around the island. Used the regular setup of a slide weight with a 18" leader. Every cast I would get bites and or a fish. While standing on some rocks casting I spotted out of the corner of my eye an eel slither under a nearby rock, it looked decent too. First I dipped my hook and bait down near the rock and before i knew it he was already munching on my bait....set the hook....."snip" my line was cut by his razor sharp teeth like a hot knife through butter. luckely I had some wire leaders. The leaders were set up with a egg weight fastened at the end. So I held the egg weight in my hand and jigged the chunck of squid in the same slot as the first........Green morray Eel on!!
He fought like hell but I got him outta the rock, took some pics and let him go. it was hard the get the hook from his jaw, everytime i would get the pliers near he would yank them outta my hand...
Seriously, every cast had some sort of action, caught a few dozen fish from the bank including a Tiger Grouper,
Squrriel fish,
Yellow snapper,
Red Hind,
Blue striped Grunt and a few others.
Even had a Needlefish on for a few seconds but he popped off at the bank.
Went out on a charter on a Marlin hunt. Sadly the Marlin werent biting we couldnt even call one up with 6 different teaser setups running and a few flying fish "plugs"
guide said these fish can soar 700 feet before landing back in the water...
We did get into a nice 4.5 ft Wahoo, beautiful fish.
Decent fight, but mostly ran at the boat trying to get free. Fight lasted about 12 minutes.
Next fish was a King Macarol, sorry no picture, this fish had to be released, it was an amazing fish though weighed around 35-40 pounds.
We were only able to get two fish on the troll so we decided to go for the live bait which was a small silver fish resembling a small Shad. After tossing out three rods, two spining and a level line on the down rigger, fish began to get hooked left and right. We ended up catching 3 Barracudas,
PICTURES SOON
5 Black fin Tuna,
1 Caribean reef shark,
VIDEO SOON
and a Trigger fish.
When we arrived back to the dock, while cleaning the fish we were told to look behind the boat....6 or so 8-10 ft Nurse sharks circled the area, feasting on the discarded fish parts.
funny thing was, people were swimming 100 or so yards away......Even a hundred or so pound Tarpon was in on the action.........
I had to feed these beauties by hand, knowing Nurse sharks are some of the most gentle sharks...unless you fall in
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Acually guess it was more like 12 species caught......
What a trip!!...... Big thanks to Captian Rob and Sharp K and mixed bag charters St. John & St. Thomas Sport Fishing, sportfishing, charter, deep sea fishing
He fought like hell but I got him outta the rock, took some pics and let him go. it was hard the get the hook from his jaw, everytime i would get the pliers near he would yank them outta my hand...
Seriously, every cast had some sort of action, caught a few dozen fish from the bank including a Tiger Grouper,
Squrriel fish,
Yellow snapper,
Red Hind,
Blue striped Grunt and a few others.
Even had a Needlefish on for a few seconds but he popped off at the bank.
Went out on a charter on a Marlin hunt. Sadly the Marlin werent biting we couldnt even call one up with 6 different teaser setups running and a few flying fish "plugs"
guide said these fish can soar 700 feet before landing back in the water...
We did get into a nice 4.5 ft Wahoo, beautiful fish.
Decent fight, but mostly ran at the boat trying to get free. Fight lasted about 12 minutes.
Next fish was a King Macarol, sorry no picture, this fish had to be released, it was an amazing fish though weighed around 35-40 pounds.
We were only able to get two fish on the troll so we decided to go for the live bait which was a small silver fish resembling a small Shad. After tossing out three rods, two spining and a level line on the down rigger, fish began to get hooked left and right. We ended up catching 3 Barracudas,
PICTURES SOON
5 Black fin Tuna,
1 Caribean reef shark,
VIDEO SOON
and a Trigger fish.
When we arrived back to the dock, while cleaning the fish we were told to look behind the boat....6 or so 8-10 ft Nurse sharks circled the area, feasting on the discarded fish parts.
funny thing was, people were swimming 100 or so yards away......Even a hundred or so pound Tarpon was in on the action.........
I had to feed these beauties by hand, knowing Nurse sharks are some of the most gentle sharks...unless you fall in
.........[video]
[/video]Acually guess it was more like 12 species caught......
What a trip!!...... Big thanks to Captian Rob and Sharp K and mixed bag charters St. John & St. Thomas Sport Fishing, sportfishing, charter, deep sea fishing
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