Guam is in the upper left-hand corner.
In 1993, while serving in the Branch Presidency in the Talisay Branch on Guam, I worked it out so that our quorum members could go on a fishing trip on one of the dive boats that I captained. It was a most memorable outing. I had heard that the Yellow-fin Tuna run was on so we loaded up our gear and headed out for an afternoon of fishing.
We had two non-member investigators along from the Islands of Chuuk. Nousy Harry (with the multi-colored hat on) and Tri-car (second from the right). We headed out of Apra Harbor and hooked around to the left to Agat Bay.
Agat Bay is 1/3 the way up on the left side.
In the tropics you troll by bouncing your lure across the top of the water. As the sun went down, we found ourselves in the middle of a Yellow-fin boil. Within minutes we had hooked into the first Yellow-fin. I immediately cut the engines and drifted to a stop. We yanked the first one out and then made a terrible mistake. We started the engines to start trolling again.
Once we did the boil stopped and in the dark we never located it again. We should have just cast out from the boat. But not having casting poles it was impossible to cast with any distance. So. . . . one nice yellow-fin was our catch.
One interesting story. . . . . . . . after we caught the yellow-fin tuna, we put it in a cooler with ice to keep it cold and fresh. It doesn't take long in the tropical heat to spoil a catch. As I was motoring around looking for another boil, I heard the cooler open and then some fidgeting. I turned around to look and noticed the the inside of the cooler was blood red and that Nousy Harry was eating something. I asked him what we was doing and he told me that it was the custom in the Chuuk Islands to eat the heart of the first fish caught for good luck. The reason the cooler was full of blood was because he had hooked his finger down through the gills and into the internal organs and had pulled the heart out and popped it in his mouth and chewed it up and swallowed it. He said that that was a delicacy in Chuuk.
One more story . . . . . one of the first times I went out on a boat dive on Guam we were trolling and caught a fish called a Rainbow Runner on the way to the dive site. We were on the dive boat Chamorita.
A Rainbow Runner
The Chamorita was loaded with Japanese Scuba Divers. Within minutes of the Rainbow Runner being pulled on deck it was filleted and eaten raw by all on board. The funny thing is that right before it was pulled on board a shark bit the back half of the Runner off. Whoa!!!
That experience was my first taste of Wasabi and Soy Sauce as a condiment for raw fish. I have been hooked on it ever since.
