It was third morning after leaving Cape Verde towards Barbados and we still haven't caught any fish. I decided to check the trolling line (25 meters of 2mm line and 10 meters of 1mm line) with two octupus lures on double hook.
On the way pulling in I noticed a fish jumping over water like a rabbit! Once... Twice... Trice... It was heading straight to the lure and we got the first fish!
![mahi-mahi](http://picfun.me/bin/5a3d6c1e435bb674da12bbbb/medium.jpg)
After that the was silence for next 5 days because small islands of sea weed have started.
![sea-weed](http://picfun.me/bin/5a380bc9435bb674da12bb2c/medium.jpg)
But after the next 8 days of sailing while pulling in a huge amount of weed she yelled - "I think there is a fish as well!"
![blue-fish](http://picfun.me/bin/5a3800e8435bb674da12bb26/medium.jpg)
The same day another mahi-mahi beauty got picked up.
![mahi-mahi](http://picfun.me/bin/5a3807c8435bb674da12bb2a/medium.jpg)
And with all this we have a fillet master!
![mahi-mahi fillet](http://picfun.me/bin/5a38097f435bb674da12bb2b/medium.jpg)
It was another 5 days without fish and then there was something scary - barracuda.
![barracuda](http://picfun.me/bin/5a380df4435bb674da12bb2d/barracuda.jpg)
Scary because in some northen islands of the Caribbean it seems to be poisonous. So I had to cook it myself and to try it before Aurelija decided to have a bite after a couple of days.
The last one came in when we saw the land.
![](http://scontent.fbgi2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/25442889_10208324474989232_7086958490230796606_n.jpg?oh=ba5245c25e7fad802ac9c78fcbd6fc14&oe=5AFF5535)
As mentioned in the previous post we caught 2 tunas while sailing towards Cape Verde.
One with big octupus lure and another one with small Rapala Tiger.
![](http://picfun.me/bin/5a37fe1a435bb674da12bb24/medium.jpg)
To be honest, it appears you don't need to have anything fancy to catch your food.
We have lost one trolling board, 2 big octupus lures, 6 small octupus lures with double hooks. Some of them because 0.07mm leash line was not strong enough or size 5/0 swivels which 32kg can withhold were not strong enough.
Leftovers.
![](http://picfun.me/bin/5a380f72435bb674da12bb30/medium.jpg)
After a day of running down the wind in 7 knots a line on a rod can start chafing, so be careful.
But Mahi-mahis are dumb and you can catch one (as one Argentinian friend told me) on simple cocktail straw with a hook.
Happy fishing!