Day 10 (Saturday): Travel Day. Tom dropped off his family and the McNair group at Boat Harbour, while I took the 20 ft. Albury back and he picked me up at their island. We then finished preparing the boats for the trip and dropped off the Roberson group at Boat Harbour for their later flight.

The boats had a nice day to head to Lucaya, via the ditch through Grand Bahama after stopping at Green Turtle(for a rum drink), Spanish Cay(for a rum drink), and Lucaya for dinner, sleep and the remaider of the Trip home Sunday. (Sunday was a bit sloppy around Lucaya, but flattened out nicely the rest of the trip.)

(Std. photo at Green Turtle... this time other side of dock)

Day 9 (Friday): Early morning trip with Tom, AKR, and me on the Down-Time. We had one small blackfin tuna on early which I promptly tried to surf into the boat without success; fishing North of the Lighthouse, chasing birds, then chasing a "bat-man", and dealing with offshore weeds (of the right kind finally) out to the bridge without a single other real knockdown.

Ran in to pick up the next fishing crews and boats for live bait catching, using our newly found land crab chumming technique, and fantastic "silversides" for bait, or the live bait Trey, Laura, and Andrew caught under the docks near Taloo. The last bottom fishing trip we caught 30+ livies (grunts, sargent majors, yellowtails, etc.), and this morning we caught another 20 or so prior to running off-shore to get out of a rainshower.

All three boats went out. The T/T My-time caught alot of smaller strawberry grouper, lost a couple of big ones in holes, and Laura caught a very nice trigger, Trey a nice eating size grouper, and the captain the largest yellow-tail I've every caught... all on light tackle in a boat with no modern electronics. The fish-boy on the Playin Thru did his usual nice grouper catch... very nice naussa grouper, and fought another one under a rock for a long...long time. The Down Time was having a "downtime" while going 0 for 0 as the fish story goes, despite the hard work of the crew. Great time and a slick ocean. The fish was all cleaned and given to Junior at the marina for the goodwill investment.

Day 8: (Thursday) Today's agenda, go back to our favorite private beach and cook-out hambergers and hotdogs, use the camp's tube and go tubing, snorkling, and a little beach ball. A great day with the group and chef R-6 did his usual great job of cooking on the grill. We make a quick pit stop at Tahiti beach on the way back to the Taloo docks. Girls and boys go shopping for T shirts in town in the late afternoon prior to their 2nd hardcore ballon fight around the house compound. Great dinner at the house with veal chops, chicken, wine, spinich, beans, etc. A typical full meal here with keylime pie or homemade cake for dinner. We're certainly not lacking of food or drink!

p.s. Umbrellas came in very handy.... thanks to the Playin Thru cargo boat.

Day 7 (Wednesday): Bottom fishing on Playin Thru, but not much to report. Sharks, large grouper running into hole, some triggers and yellowtails by fishboy, and HOT, HOT, HOT. Ran back into port to jump in pool and go to dinner on the boat to Cap't Jacks. Great dinner, sunset cruise and return home. The usual card games, etc.

Day 6 (Tuesday): Fishing day on the Playin Thru with Laura, Kevin, Charlotte, and Fish Boy. Great day of fishing. Not much trolling. Had 2 or 3 strikes. One hit the back of the bonita teaser, 1 on cedar plug and another on a lure. Two probably tuna, and one a wahoo on the teaser. Started bottom fishing with a good chum line out of Taloo cut in 60 feet of water and using the crab for chum and sometimes bait. Grouper, yellowtail and trigger fish were on the menu. Laura caught this nice Bull Shark... everyone seemed to back up when I pulled this deamon aboard for a quick release.

Day 5 (Monday): Trip to Pete's Pub at Little Harbour and a stop at our private beach at Taloo. Pete's pub was great and a very good lunch. Also Trey and I talked to a local fisherman to get some local knowledge about hermit crabs and fishing with conch!

Day 4 (Sunday): Tap...Tap... Tap... on the window.... Shhhhhh....Shhhhh.... Shhhh... from Pepi and an Early morning morning fishing trip on the Playin Thru.

Late afternoon trip with the Down Time, The Downing family and the McNair Family on the Big H (23 Albury from Island Marine) to Fowl Cay national reef. Nice time and clarity was pretty good. As usual, there's no current.

Day 3 (Saturday): Travel day to Boat Harbour marina, pool and bar to pick up the families and relocate to Barefoot Bay house on the tip of Elbow Cay overlooking Taloo. This is a GREAT house. It's set up with 3 separate buildings. Two housing bedrooms, and the 3rd is the kitchen, livingroom, bar and dining area. In between them all is the pool and the outside bar. It's a very nice setup and has fantastic views, especially from the crow's nest.

First night at Elbow Cay.... of course tuna dinner at Abaco Inn everybody's favorite spot. No Doubt.

Late night swimming party at the Barefoot Bay house.

Day 2 (Friday): Spanish Cay to Treasure Cay. It was also a day to save on fuel as we trolled our way outside and stopped for some bottom jigging as we had minimal action trolling. Treasure Cay Marina had a great dinner buffet at this favorite spot of Tom's. This may be one of mine too! One of the major fishing tournaments was finishing up the same day, so there was a lot of activity around the marina. Kevin was showing-off his new fighting chair.

Day 1 (Thursday June 11): Great trip over from Lake Worth Inlet to Spanish Cay on Day 1. I've never seen a crossing any smoother. Check out the photos... they show what I mean!

Tom's arrival at Spanish.

A great day of fishing with great friends! Left the dock at 4:30 AM on a 1 ft. sea fishing day. Looked at the satellite and determined the best line should have been just South of the Deli and that was confirmed by talking to folks on the radio on the way out who confirmed that(they had friends who had stayed out fishing the night before). We found a good line about 67 miles out. Had a hit immediately and missed. Lost another nice fish at the boat, and landed a nice 12 lb dolphin. We worked our way south to an off-shore reef in 200 ft of water we had never fished before. I figured it was the nearest hard bottom to the weedline we were working and sure enough as luck would have it, we pulled a nice wahoo and multiple dolphin with a 30 lb. bull out from under the marker buoy. The bull dolphin almost jumped into another boat encroaching on our catch as the captain yelled at them to pay attention and turn away... the rest of the crew even chimed in! Way to go crew!

Fished R-8 on the way back and stopped at R-7 to shoot some sheepies with the bow. Great laughs that was and the cobia swimming near the boat just knew we had the bow? Don't forget the tabletop sunfish with 10 large cobia all under it and over it... what a onetime sight that was. Normally they'd swim right over to the boat without even a thought. We will get them next time as this was the first time PGP tried to bow fish. It will be well worth the fine tuning and I can't wait until next time!

Nice dolphin by the mystery fisherman, and it was his first time ever going out that far to catch fish! Good job RP!

And there's always fish boy to be there at just the right moment as can be seen in this double up by PG and fishboy and of course the photo opp at the dock. Don't forget FB lined in a nice dolphin! We had all 8 rods going off, one right after the other!
Great day !