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I
recently took a trip to Bimini with a good friend of mine, and we spent a
few days fishing with Captain Jerome aboard the Miss Bonita I.
We arrived in Bimini via Chalks Airline seaplane from Miami, and
cleared immigration in a few minutes. We were Captain
Jerome met us at the airport, and after we checked into our cottage at the
Bimini Big Game Club, we were ready to go. By 9:15am we were aboard
Miss Bonita I, and heading out of Bimini Bay towards open water. The
wind was blowing out of the northeast and the seas were running about 4 -
5 feet.
Willie
re-baited the lines and we continued south along the edge toward Cat Cay.
Snap! - the starboard
outrigger released and the fight was on.
This was no barracuda. The
line was flying off the reel and Captain Jerome maneuvered to position
Miss Bonita for the fight. Twenty
minutes of battle, and a forty-pound Wahoo hits the deck.
What a beautiful fish.
Saturday
morning broke partly sunny and windy.
We left the Big Game Club at 8:00am.
The seas were still running 4 - 5 feet as we headed out to the Gulf
Stream. Miss Bonita's new
twin 380 diesels made easy work of the surf and we wasted no time in
getting the lines in the water. One
of the great benefits of fishing from Bimini is its close proximity to the
Gulf Stream. You don't waste
half the day getting to good fishing.
Fish
on! We saw a beautiful blue,
yellow and green colored dolphin fish break the surface.
This fish had hit the starboard The
weather broke for a while and the seas calmed a little as the tide change
arrived around noon, but the water remained very cloudy.
We were discussing our strategy for the tide change when the
starboard outrigger snapped again. I
grabbed the pole and held on as the line just flew off the reel.
This was no forty pounder.
We
had two more billfish strikes, and landed a 15-pound king fish and a
nice-sized mackerel before the For
those of you who have never been to the Bimini Islands, they are the
western most islands in the Bahamas, located just fifty miles off the
Florida coast from Miami or Fort Lauderdale.
Test your skills on a fishing trip with Captain Jerome and
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amazed that there were
no signs of damage from Hurricanes Floyd and Irene.
Mate
Willie set four lines with ballyhoo and we headed for "the edge"
in the lee of the keys south of Bimini.
We
landed 3 more barracuda and had nine more strikes that day before the wind
and seas picked up and we headed back to the dock.
outrigger line which we had running
about 120 yards out.
Captain
Jerome again maneuvered Miss Bonita for fighting the big fish, which
allowed us to rewind some line.
weather closed in again and we headed for
port.