Man, we have been catching Mahi Mahi like they're going out of style. We sort of ran out of lures because the damn marlin kept taking them, so Jean made one with the head of an old lure and some frayed rope. Then bing bang boom we caught 3 mahi in 4 days (we were happy to have 1 day off). They've gotten progressively bigger in size, the first (Tom) was maybe 3-4 pounds, the second (Dick) 5-7 and today's (Harry) was 15-20 pounds!
I told Oly several days ago that I wanted to learn to clean them, so when we got Tom, he cleaned and fileted him slowly while instructing. We agreed I'd do the next one. Sure enough Dick came along the following day, and I was up on deck. A few pictures......
Aside from the couple of times that it flopped WELL AFTER being dead and splattering blood all over me which prompted quite the squeals, I jumped right in there and did the whole thing start to finish. YAY ME!
Harry came along today, and he was big, very big (though Oly tells me he wasn't even in the same ballpark as big). I let Oly do the honors as it was decided it should be made into steaks which means cutting through the backbone multiple times.
So we're going to be a little sick of Mahi Mahi after this trip, but seeing as how our protein ran out before Galapagos, none of us are complaining (we'd just prefer a tuna at this point :-)
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