Mahi-Mahi
Mahi-mahi are smarter than you think.
Long time friend Terry Beadle called me to tell me about an adventure he had had in Hawaii not long ago. We got together and he opened up with a picture of him standing in front of a mess of mahi-mahi. “We went out about 30 miles next to the buoys where they hang ropes on which grows algae and that attracts the fish. It is interesting how they catch them. They will put palu or chum which is cut up fish and they throw it out, sometimes they put a little bit of tuna blood out, it attracts the mighty mighty and they come in and they cast out with a rod that is like a salmon rod and reel. They hook up, you sit in your chair and you reel in your Mahi-mahi, they can range from 15 to 65 pounds, most of ours were in the 20 to 40 pound range. What is the fight like Terry? Most of the time it is pretty good, sometimes they’ll have you bring the fish in but leave it half way out there because they come in schools and if they see that one fishes gone from the school, they are pretty might now, so they will take off. What they do is have you hold the fish out, specially if it is a male, and hold it out there until the other ones come around and you can catch those too. So you can have 2 or 3 on at a time.
