Wrecking at last !

After what seems like an age the winds died down an I have been able to get John and the boys on the wrecks in Florida Bay.  First day we had John’s friend along for the day and my job was to get a fish bigger than him normally not a problem but the grouper had different ideas. First one back was about 80 lbs a nice starter fish just to show the newbie what it was all about so down goes a big bait and the first of three unstoppable fish.  The last one had a shark bait about 15 lbs and the float just buried no stopping this one, these fish go to near 1000 lb and in all fairness there is only going to be one winner, we have had them to about 500 lb which I think is about out limit. One very good fish was a barracuda way over 25 lbs for Ian there are so many cuda here but not easy to catch but on light spinning rods serious fun.

Yesterday the guys said can we go back for round to and as always with my fishing holidays in the Florida Keys the anglers call the shots so back we went, much calmer seas but a long slack water and as they say no run no fun but then the fishing picked up and Dereck had a nice stingray.  As the tide started to run the cobia came on the feed and John had a nice one also some of the biggest blue runners I have ever seen slamming the 2o lb jigging rods hard over.  John also had the scary moment of the trip his 20 lb black nose shark was nailed on the way in, I think by a very big tiger the have been seen here well over 1000 lbs just look at what we call the teeth radius mark.  Fish of the day and week so far has to be the bull shark well over 400 lbs that Ian had on the 40 lb ledger rod soft hands a very good angling skills had this to the boat in under 30 mins. Sorry I got a bit excited on the video but what you can’t see is the well over 20 cobia  that were with this shark and some were about 50 lbs.