I love a 3/4 day charter. It gives you so many options for finding fish. We fish an edge here off of St. John for pelagic fish like Mahi, Wahoo and Tuna and it is only an eight mile run from the mooring so you really only need a 1/2 day charter or 4 hours of fishing to be able to get into some fish. However, the 6 hour 3/4 day allows for a little more search, and in yesterday's case, DESTROY fishing. The storied edge where it goes from 98ft to 212ft to 316ft to ----- on the sounder in 40 yards of trolling signifies having gone off the deep end of the pool. Sitting all of a sudden in 2000+ft of blue water there is going to be little action until you find something floating or birds working. Out in the "deep" you don't get your lines knocked down by barracudas, jacks, kingfish, or other none pelagic fish. In fact, you rarely get the line even knocked down unless you are expecting it. Begging the question, how to you expect fish. . . .let me show you. We were boring our guests for the first hour, explaining that everything was fine, deep fishing means searching for stuff and that we were just looking for signs so that we could really start fishing. Labeling me Eagle Eyes, Fisherman Chris on our charter boat World Class has dubbed me the finder of fish so I generally go up on the gunwale when the seas allow and having spotted some frigates to the north east (we had gone five miles out and were making a turn back towards the edge) Chris made the turn in the appropriate direction and after locking in on what I saw a few minutes later we were finally about to start fishing. We picked up a small 10 pound wahoo right away and warning signals went off in our heads. There is only one reason a small wahoo would be out in the deep like this. . . there was a floater somewhere nearby that we needed to find. Back up on the gunwale Chris did the circles until I spotted the what we knew was there, a nice sized yellow buoy with a little line hanging off it and lots of white fingernail sized mussels and some hairy growth on it. All trolling lines in and a quick punch on the gps to mark it and the game changed to light tackle so we could feed these traveling souls live bait. Mahi can reproduce at 3 months old, they are 20 pounds at 4-5 months and they are dying old geezers by 4 years old. A drifting, floater with its own ecosystem is literally a lifeline for a lifetime to a school of young Mahi. They can hang off the floater a few hours while small fish drift into it to seek shelter and then come in for their own feast, repeating the bait and wait game that the floater offers for months at a time as long as the floater stays in the right drift pattern, or until someone like us shows up with hooks. We were there with hooks and a final meal, boating a nice take of 15 Mahi and 4 Wahoo as well as my personal dinner table favorite, two Triple tail. We left tons of Mahi and 4 Triple tail on the floater and even had the chance to tag a Mahi for CSS Dolphinfish Tagging Study. Tag number 17080, hopefully the little female will make her way along the current and is recaptured in a few months.