John, I perosnally much prefer the old dories. the new ones are faster and more comfortable in terms of their ride but I feel the old ones were better fishing platforms with the cage at the back. I find fishing off the back of the new dories quite dodgy, especially when the boat is rocking.
Travis - thanks for the link. I am actually looking for a new pair of knees pads as that other pair has fallen to pieces during this trip.
There were a few mackeral around but not too many and certainly, not as many as in previous years. We also saw a few barracuda with George Pang nailing a monster in a blue hole.
Bugatti has always been a good location for stickbaits but the water was quite discoloured this time. Amazingly, the most successful lure in the first couple of days were pencils. A few of the boys had great successful fishing a skittering popper called an Adhek long goby. This proved to be a real goldmine in the first couple of days. On my first day, we had somethng like ten fish in the boat and seven were caught on long gobys.
