What a beautiful July day. Almost flat calm, kinda cool, and decent enough fishing.

Since dolphin fishing had been slow the last few days, I headed down the beach, in hopes of some billfish action. We fished an hour or two before we missed two shots at a white marlin, and another fifteen minutes before we had a brief encounter with a second fish. I got information about some dolphin action fifteen miles to the northeast, so I reluctantly gave up on the marlins, threw out a couple of high speed lures, and trucked it on up the line. I always hate fishing behind a bunch of boats, but we managed to scrap out close to half a limit of dolphin, so the move was worth while. Just before we picked up to come home, we missed a shot at a sailfish on a flatline. Oh well, we'll get him tomorrow!