Finally here and getting settled in. Sitting at the island in Anthony's house overlooking the Ocean. Big house for just me, it seems so empty. It is really hard to focus. I keep picking up the binoculars and checking out the guys trolling around. I still haven't seen anybody hook one but it's good just to watch the lines they take.
Fishing here is going to be a learning experience, thats for sure. I have spoken a lot with many of the best Captains over here, Kevin Nakamaru, Boyd from the Foxy Lady, Marlin Parker, Bart Miller, our own OB and several others. They have all been very good to me, all say the same thing, be ready for the frustration. The common belief here is that visual signs don't mean as much as current direction and location. Current direction and location is always super important but finding the birds and bait doesn't seem to mean much like it does in many areas like, Puerto Vallarta, San Benedicto, Roca Partida and any where mainland Mexico. The Island chain is so dynamic it is hard to get a grip on a pattern because it changes so fast. I believe a guy could figure out 70% of this place in a year and could never figure out the other 30% in a lifetime.
I will be bringing some different tools here than are typically used, it is going to be interesting to see if any of them work.  So far I have had a glimmer of success with Ocean Imaging as far as finding the location of the fish. The VOG, volcanic fog, makes it difficult to get good shots. I have whacked a few fish with the sonar and got a couple bites from it. I saw the biggest fish I have ever seen on the sonar a couple days ago. It didn't bite, looked like a Hot Tamale on the screen, a real monster. So far the gyros haven't helped except for me finding the porpoise schools for guys with green sticks fishing the Tuna. I have found breaks with scores of skipjack schools , frigate birds, porpoise, floaters all for nothing. I got pulled out of my game plan with them the other day on our shakedown trip. I found a line of birds about 4 miles away and headed out there. Beautiful break with scores of Skipjack, birds all over them. I spent 2 of our 5 hours we had for the day fishing it. Found a couple fish I think were Marlin, found some Tuna and had a couple Spearfish bites. Speaking of Spearfish, the day I got in town a guy told me he had a Spearfish chasing his lure and a Tonner came up and ate it. Thats a 2000# Marlin. Even if he missed the weight by a 1000#'s thats a monster.
OB has done a great job getting the boat ready. I just had to change the oil in the gear boxes and fine tune a couple systems. Now it is just setting the stuff up for me the way I fish. Finally getting this CH300 twisted up in a good direction.
Keep your fingers crossed for me. I am going to need it. A lot to learn over here. I'm excited about the chance to do it. If we fail it won't be from a lack of trying thats for sure. I will do my best to update this every other day or so.