When we arrived, the island was fog shrouded until after dark on Wednesday...so we never got to see any of the island that day except for the 75 yards in front of us! We fished all day Wednesday until 10:00 pm and got a few hours sleep and went back out at 3:00 am and fished through sunrise with no luck......that morning we began to be able to see the island and its cliffs and shoreline so we spent the day walking most of it down to the west end where those spectacular views were. There was quite a bit of rock weed and some monkey hair in spots but not bad......the wind was honking all day Thursday so we had to find a spot where we could get the wind at a minimum which happened to be the only spot we found fish. We fished until mid-day Thursday at about 2:00 and headed back to base to eat and squeeze in a nap. Back out about 7:00 and walked back to that spot and got alot of swirls and vicious hits but they were playing with us....but we loved the action just he same. No fish Thursday night until about 11:00 so we headed back to get a good nights sleep and figured the best course of action was to hit that spot after breakfast and fish it until we had to leave. It paid off with a few more fish and that beauty Don caught! You should have seen it taking line.....Don almost soiled his pants with visions of it wrapping him around a rock and losing it! Don played it cool and gave line when he needed to......he got it in close and I jumped in and grabbed it for him as he kept the line tight and slid it up onto the shallow rocks! He was elated and I was thrilled for him and envious all at the same time. It was a joy to listen to Don's VS 250 sing and to watch the rod double over as the fish tried to speed away with his lure. We had alot of action compared to how many fish we actually caught but it was a blast having fish whack the plugs into the air 2-3 times on each rerieve as we are both topwater plug junkies (sorry #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&)
We felt we learned quite a bit about the island and its shoreline so next time we go...stay a little longer and be a bit more diligent at night.....we were just so exhausted at night after walking for miles and casting all day.....next time (maybe Sept.) we will concentrate on night time with eels.
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