07/22/2010 Watching the weather and chomping at the bit to shake down the 32’ Seacraft, I finally saw the window and ran. The plan was to follow the windy weather offshore and fish the descending seas for Dorado and Tuna. I love when a plan comes together...I got to the dock early to load the rig up and was please to see that things were already going well when I could hear thick amounts of bait popping in the canals...bait which has been non existent for the last few weeks. After filling the wells with peanut bunker and loading up the boat the crew arrived and off we went. We ran around 35 miles in an absolutely beautiful ocean before things got spotty. We settled down to get a feel for the conditions and decided that drifting in 3-5 ft seas would be a bit too much so we ran in a few miles and started our day. Right off the start we had action with hooking up with a nice size Dolphin that put on a great aerial show during its fight back to the boat. With the skunk from the boat now removed we calmly got set back up and almost immediately got hit again, only this time he dropped the hook. We drifted for about an hour before we had more action but it was well worth the wait. First we started seeing deep water flashes that you "thought you saw" followed by small surface slashes that you see out of the corner of your eye, then we had a slow peel off the drag. I immediately thought it was a shark, I grabbed the rod to get a get a feel for what was going on, having felt a slight weight I decided to set the hook and it was game on. Line screaming off the reel as I handed off the rod and a minute later a spectacular 20 lb Dorado launched out of the water and after a 15 minute battle with this "Barn Door" we had him boat side and in the cooler. We continued drifting and about 10 minutes later I decided to live line a Squid that I caught in the cast net earlier that morning. Man that bait wasn't in the water more than 2 minutes and I felt it get thumped, followed by a solid hook set...and man that reel (spinning Tackle) was screaming as the line was dumping off my reel at an incredible pace. Positive I was hooked up to either a Tuna or Wahoo I knew we had about 30 seconds of line left on the reel. We quickly got the boat started to follow this beast and just as we started moving he broke us off. With the excitement waning we got re-rigged and back in position. We continued to feel good about the area so we gave it another hour and had another slow run off followed by a 5 minute battle before the hook pulled, which I assumed was a shark as we had a couple behind the boat earlier. With the day growing late, we decided to head back to the dock for a little Grilled Mahi.