On Friday I made a second trip out, again solo and again at Mayan. Surf was nicer than it had been a few days earlier, and I found some big and willing Spanish biting at the first rig. The problem was that a porpoise family showed up and were aggressively trying to steal my baits and fish. At one point I had to rip a fish from the water just ahead of flipper as he rushed in for the steal. He was mad, and kept making big boils of water, blowing bubbles beside my kayak, slapping the water with his tail and parking just below me and just glaring. I know, he wasn't exactly going to pull out a screwdriver and poke holes in my kayak, but having an unhappy adult porpoise (close enough to touch) throwing a tantrum is still unnerving. I left the first rig to escape the unwanted visitors, but they followed me. At Wally they seemed to leave, so I deployed a ribbon to try and repeat the cobia scenario. Instead, I noticed a slight pull on the rod and when I pulled it in, the tail was missing just behind the last treble hook. I put it back out, thinking at least now they would leave it alone. Wrong. They kept picking at it until it was gone. They would come up and check me out to see if I was going to rebait that rig, but I just pulled two models of Halco instead. Still they followed for a couple more hours. Every time I would hook a Spanish they would rush over and force me to bring in a green fish. There was a bit of respite when I would jig around rig legs. I managed a nice black drum on my chrome jig, which was different. He was larger than I would usually keep, but since the hook was deep and the fish probably wouldn't survive a release attempt, I kept him to eat. I got back to the beach around noon with plenty of fish, but really wishing those pesky porpoise would go back to the Port A jetties and leave me alone.
The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uyoTuT ... lennMadden
