John’s shark

I do have to keep reminding myself firstly I am very lucky to live and work in the Florida Keys and secondly not every one has caught big fish. This week John Grindle is one of many guys who has not a very big PB in fact he told me that his shark had smashed his PB by over 100 lbs. I am have to say that a even a 100 lb fish is not big for us at Fish the Dream fishing holidays in fact John had one near 200 lb yesterday but this blog is about his shark. For a newcomer he did it all right on his second fish it must be hard shark fishing in just 10 ft and  can be brutal they only have one way to go and blacktip have their own rules. This time it all went well and despite some hard runs at the boat, all blacktip do  we had the fish and like the many hundred’s of other shark I soon had it on John’s knees. This fish did have one last trick which is a reminder to all of us who handle shark and at the point of release made a big jump but lucky for us all it went back in the sea. I dont know how he did it but the jump was caught on camera but John Aplin 10 out of 10 for the action shot.

At the end of the day Lee Jasper or Mr Cobia as he now likes us to call him nail a super 26.5 lb fish which nearly made up for a cobia nearer 50 lb he lost in the day. The wreck we were fishing on one tide the cobia were swimming on the top and we were lucky to sight fish with live baits very exciting and nerve-wracking as well. The one very good part about Lee’s cobia it was taken on the new reel I am trying out for Snowbee the guys at Release Reels have got this one very, very right and that handle just something else.