Good day today. We got to Jordan's house at 8am for a day of fishing. On the boat, I focused a little more on filming, as Jordan needed some clips for his Instagram. It was cool finding out that he had all these sponsorships from different apparel companies, and he needed some videos of him repping their gear while catching fish. We went pretty far offshore today, about 6 or 7 miles Jordan said. We only ended up catching one fish today, but it was the biggest we've caught so far, a giant blackfin tuna (photo below). When we got back to the docks, Jordan fileted the fish while the 3 of us watched the fish below, the water is super clear there and the fish love staying under the docks so it's a cool spot just to sit and watch them. We got back to the house, cleaned the boat for a little over an hour, and called it a day at 3. 


Today's time: 7 hours (8am-3pm)
Total time: 56.5 hours

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