It was another beautiful day when Sensei, a 42-foot Rodman and flagship of the Azores Fishing Charters fleet, left her slip in Horta, a city on the island of Faial in the Azores. As we left the marina and entered the channel between Horta and Pico, the sun had risen over the cap of the Pico stratovolcano and a stunning vista stretched out before us. Andrea Beuter and I were beyond thrilled to fish together where we had met—she had traveled from Munich, while I had made the trip from Gulf Shores, Alabama, to meet in one of the most fertile blue marlin and tuna fisheries in the world.
We headed north to fish