Hunting journal, v4471
Page 225
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Bree Pails Jan 10, 1974 North wind was down some this morning but water still dirty except at the Boza so we returned there. During the course of the morning we saw a substantial number of bonefish tailing or at least cruising in shallow water. But they were spooky as well, stampeding at sight of the boat, at the drop of a cast, or for just no obvious reason at all. Still I got one hook-up and landed a very pretty little fish of 18" (est. 3lbs) after a nice fight through more ast mangrove sprouts. The exasperation of the last few days was exhausted! After lunch the stern wind shifted from north back to east where it was the first two days here. And it's blowing up a gale again now (6 PM). Still, in the sheltered cove between mangrove clumps we found a surprising number of bonefish tailing, at words as I were casting to fish virtually all afternoon but with limited results. I hooked one darkly lively yellow star ran out my line at half my breaking before I knew what was going on. Landed him in just over 15 minutes -> 19", estimated 3 1/2 to 4lbs. Had some other close misses but he was our only hook-up. Poor Woody spent a exasperating day without a hook-up. Here at Camp we have orange piders in the coconut, Yucatan rockwhisker and boat-tailed grachler.