We finally caught it. Not without losing another lure though. To keep from letting the line break we let out nearly all of the fishing line. This was a real fighter. While fighting it we used the engine to keep the fish out of the rudders, we even dropped the spinnaker so that we would not spool the winder!
After a long and aggressive fight Shannon, yes Shannon grabbed this monster by his teeth and dragged him up onto the bottom swim step. Fortunately he was pretty tired, and so we were able to pop him headfirst into the full sized trashcan. This yellow tail tuna was nearly 4 feet and about 10 inches thick. The children are still carrying out an autopsy trying to determine something they could only explain. The stomach with sardines was interesting, but the heart and eyes are by far the favorite specimens. They have been at it for more than an hour.
Sometime tonight we should be making a night entry, with no moon, into a poorly charted anchorage. We are figuring that when we hit 100 feet we will just drop the anchor, and wait the glorious sunrise. We just watched a BBC 2-hour special about the Galapagos, so we are ready for adventure!!!
Courage
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