The boys took off early one morning to go get some marlin or whatever else they could hook. They had quite a time trying to understand the deck hand who only spoke limited English but eventually they understood him. They said it was quite an operation with the live bait and hooking the fish and trying to reel them in. The biggest excitement was that Papa had about a 150 lb marlin that he fought for about an hour and at the last second, the darn fish got away! His long sword cut the fishing wire with all the tugging and pulling. Papa was very sad the 'big fish' got away. That's all he talked about the rest of the trip. But what a fun experience! The sea lion that came up on the back of the boat with green algea on his head is named Poncho....apparently all the fishing boats know of him. Jeff said he had quite a lot of character.
