09-01-2003, 05:58 PM
Some of my Marlin buddies had told me of the cold green water surrounding the Southland before we took a Mako Shark excursion. They were absolutely correct. Sunday we took a heading for the 14 mile bank and as the water temp. dropped at about 15 miles we turned back to water about 67 degrees. That's not too bad for Makos but the color of the water was brownish green, which usually means cold upwelling water. But, it wasn't cold at all. Weird! It reminded me of the Sea of Cortez. Anyway we got into the "baby" blue sharks like I have never seen before and they were really hungry. We caught at least 30, 2 foot long babies, released of course. No Makos attacked our bait and we saw only two jumpers all day. We went back to the Horseshoe for bass, cast one time into 59 degree water, pulled up anchor and went home. Like my son said "God is pissed at us" 'cause normally we never get skunked.
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