1.4.2013 15:00pm 76F

When we bought N6206, previously “Feeling”, we inherited a bunch of fishing gear with the boat. With little to none fishing experience, we kinda just left them as they were. Luckily, two weeks before we left San Francisco, Erik, our neighbor at West Point, helped us sorted out our fishing gear and gave us a few lessons on fishing. Knowing just enough to be dangerous, we rigged up two fishing poles, gearing up for our first fishing expedition on the way to Cabo.

It was one of the most beautiful days on this trip, blue sky and flat sea. We set the lines and just hung out in the aft pilothouse cockpit. Fishing or not, we had a blast watching all the sea life out there, dolphins, sea lions, whales.

Among the many invaluable advice from Erik, one is to go where the birds are.

Dorados definitely liked our lures. We caught several of them.

Christine’s first fish ever!

Following the Youtube video we had downloaded previously, we cleaned the fish and enjoyed grilled Mahi-Mahi for dinner — life is good. Before this day, Mark and Christine both had concerns on fishing. Christine concerned that we wouldn’t catch any fish, whereas Mark concerned we would catch fish too big for two of us to handle — guess we met in the middle there.

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