Crunch-Time-Angler Alan had a free sunday from his busy sched and decided to go fishing and tagged along me and johnnyboy. When we left santolan around 2:30 am, we were contemplaing on what to do; trolling? jigging perhaps or bouy hopping? Definitely all three of us wanted to try jigging so it’s one of the agenda. Arriving at Laiya a little before 6am and asked Tereso and Rosen what are biting. It’s definite daw that there’s no dorados so it will be trolling and jigging.

Tereso was Ayi’s boatman when he got devirginized at jigging and he is familiar where the spot was when they had bites. A little past 6am, Johnnyboy boarded Tereso’s boat and went directly to the jigging spot. When Alan and I boated Rosen’s boat, Alan decided to go trolling towards Lobo. Alan hooked up the first bite of the early in the day, barely 30 mins from the time we departed laiya, and it was a good sized cuda. Alan\’s Cuda <embed width=”440″ height=”380″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” src=”http://v3.tinypic.com/player.swf?file=2s6360p&s=3″></embed> Around 7:15am my reel went zzzziittt……. zzziittt……. zzzzzzzziiiiitttttttttttt. Rosen quicky gunned the boat while I tried frantically to pull out my rod from the holder as it was quite heavy. The fish did several runs or should I say dives but I gues it was no match with a 50lb line. The fish was still quite deep when I caught a glimpse of it.. hehhe.. wow! it was big. After a few minutes of fighting, Rosen gaffed the fish and it indeed huge, weight it and tipped the scale ast 8.4lb 8:15, I got another bite! zzzziittt… zzziiitttt…. zzzziiiittttt with that kind of strike I figured that sound of the strike that it was another talakitok and it was. Only smaller this time, only 4lbs. Alan really wanted to catch another fish other than a barracuda so I told him that I’m willing to donate the smaller talakitok to him but if he catches a talakitok or anyother fish other than a cuda, I’ll have to take it back. hehehe. Our last bite for the day came at around 9:30. This time it was Alan’s turn to. He was hoping that it was not another barracuda and it wasn’t. hehehe. It was a good sized 6lb talakitok.. No other strike from there until lunch time. When we arrived shore, johnnyboy arrived only minutes earlier and no catch for him. Apparently they tried to follow but never caught site of us so they turned around…. only a few hundred meters from the talakitok hotspot in Lobo. I told him that I’ll donate the smaller talakitok to him.. hehehe. We tried jigging after lunch on Ayi’s hotspot but no luck. We tried to make Alan’s fish finder work but there seems to be a problem with the connection of the transducer. We decided to go trolling again. Our catch for the afternoon was a ruler-lenght tuko. which i gave to the boatman.

Alan's Cuda and Trevally

My trevally catch