Well we began our day with great optimism arriving at the famed Rocas Alijos just after breakfast with the weather and fine working conditions in our favor. Had it not been for the one factor that has been a consistent thorn in our side, whether fishing Alijos or Guadalupe this season, we would have put together a good day on the one hundred pound class yellowfin. That's right. The sharks were at it again today and can only be described as efficient and relentless consuming a whopping ninety five percent of the big fish we hooked. As it was, the fishing was far from wide open, and that was the problem, as the pace of one, two, or three hooked at a time made easy pickings for the stealthy brown denizens cruising the plentiful deeps. Needless to say nobody around here is expressing sympathy for the poor, purported to be over exploited sharks in this region. In fact, a steaming bowl of shark fin soup sounds delicious at present.

The ray of hope to which we are presently clinging originated three trips prior when our first day at Alijos began somewhat similar to this day and the remainder of our time at the rocks was relatively shark free. Let us hope that history repeats itself as we see encouraging signs of this big fish around and have plenty of time and bait to work with. Overall we did manage to land a few skinnies and a couple of handfuls of yellowfin tuna with the standouts surviving the gauntlet weighing in at one hundred fifteen, and fifty to seventy pounds. Tomorrow is a new day and we will be here to live and report it.