9/6/12

Back on the bigger yellowfin program offshore beginning the day with a good hit on the 35 - 50# models
that quickly reminded one and all of how sweet it is. What a morning. Actually what a day that in
addition to some good morning fishing featured the most beautiful, grease calm sea conditions imaginable;
the kind of calm that far transcends any definition, any idea, of "normal"; sublime, and very special as
such.

The fishing however was very "normal" as the big yellowfin made a good showing early then descended to
their more preferable setting leaving us in search mode for the remainder of the afternoon and evening.
This has been the pattern for the majority of this season that has featured relatively little catching
beyond two or three p.m. Fortunately we made good on our early opportunities compiling a decent score in
the process; not to say that we didn't want more.

But tempering our insatiable lust for more with recognition of what we have, as opposed to what we don't,
we advance into our final day offshore mighty grateful for the encouraging prospects ahead and continuing
flat calm to work in.

Photos for the day feature two long time long range and Royal Star veterans. Bruce Chisholm, spry in
spirit and worthy of much admiration, handily dispatched this 40# class yellowfin with the practiced hand
of a time wizened veteran.

Kerry Krueger, who shouldered a good natured ribbing from friends while enduring an early case of the
dreaded "snakebite", closed out the day with a hearty last laugh; and those who have fished with Kerry
understand that it was a chuckle heard far and wide. Actually his real expression was one of pure
gratitude, no boasting, when he landed this 50.8 # yellowfin that set the new mark - for now.

Tim Ekstrom

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