REPORTS FROM THE RIP: Great birthday

There are those days that you will remember for a while. Sunday was one of them. .......We fished on Saturday and worked it hard all day. The fish just did not cooperate. There was lots of grass and no bait.
But Sunday, We left the dock at 8 am with hopes of redeeming ourselves from the poor fishing the day before. We DID. I always do well fishing on my birthday. The water looked better, there was sparse grass and there was bait showing on the FADs. We started off by hooking a blue that came in hot on a teaser. The boss performed a perfect bait and switch pitch bait, to the aggressive blue. But the line was cut off a minute into the fight. I think it ran across the anchor line for the FAD. After that the next four hours was full of excitement. This was truly good Dominican Republic Blue Marlin fishing. Our next fish was nearly taken from us before we could release it safely, buy a Dominican commercial fishing boat. It was damn near hand to hand combat at the transom. But the fish was released safely. These commercial guy are brazen and rude. They sure do give the fishing community a bad name here in the DR. There are Pics below of one particular encounter we had. The Dominican boat ran right up on our transom to try and gaff the fish to steal it before we could release it. I had to gun the engines hard just to keep away from the small bot. He was still leas that a foot away a few times. Thank goodness the guy with the gaff sucked so bad.
On Monday, we took the boat to Boca Chica. It is a small town about 40 miles West of CDC. During the day it is a nice little town. But aat night we saw that it becomes VERY ugly. One of our guests said it best. " Boca Chica is where the Outbreak Monkey went to retire". Our reason for going is that the Baseball academy the boss is involved with is right there. We entertained some of his employees Monday afternoon and yesterday, we fished our way back to Casa De Campo CDC. We caught one Mahi and had a few shots at Blue Marlin. We did release one blue. Oh and the jackass that runs the little boat pictured below also came by in his boat to tell us we cant fish around there. Apparently he owns the ocean or something like that.... What an ass clown!
Today we are taking a down day. I woke up to a steady rain earlier But now it is still and steamy outside. We will take the day to repair some tackle and rig a few lures. But it will be mostly inside stuff I think.