How to lose a grand slam
We started the morning off with a family of scarlet macaws outside our window, fresh cinamon rolls from the bakery, then off to the Dragin Fly.![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJo4hyphenhyphenYl20jZYdc0nIn4RMQ7mVm-g4TVN8JxrLs0De1mN4FXAABc6riz-yhr8ceLKnsWWna2dbQhYUcVoYaeOxkG9FmjzLYJr28XV8d6QSy1sHKWVzfayXZP3Vfzey08l3EOGJX9RIE1wk/s320/DSC_9376.JPG)
About an hour run straight to several square miles of scattered dophins (the Flipper kind), birds and busting tunas. It didn't take long to get a bite, actually 4 bites, on cedar plugs and casting poppers. On two different occasions we were hooked up with quadruple headers on tuna, landing all 4. With a dozen tuna in the box, it was time for Anna to get in the water and swim with the dolphins....she got the underwater view of tunas crashing my popper.
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We finally coaxed her out of the water when the boat beside us hooked up with a sail. We put the billfish spread out, but continued to have tunas eat our ballyhoo.
With more in the boat than we needed, we made a tactical error. A hard bite on the right short bait and we locked up the drag, hoping to pull the tuna off the hook.....then it screamed off a hundred yards and hit the air. The 300 pound blue marlin straightened the hook. Ouch, won't make that mistake again. We ended up jumping off a striped marlin, missed several sails and caught 5 sails.......so much for our chance at a grand slam, but a great day.
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