Finally catching Eric his sail off the coast of Ft Lauderdale aboard "Hooked Up"

 

 

Ok thing were looking a bit better for our charter but we still needed to get Jesse and his farther in law something to eat so back to trolling we went.

 

It took a while but @ last a bite and Teofilo jumped in the chair and reeled in a nice black fin tuna.

 

Holly cow what an exciting day of deep-sea fishing we had!!

 

Thanks again to all of our anglers today and we’re looking forward to fishing with all of you again soon.

(Fishing With Family never know what might happen!!)

 

As we pulled back into the dock we had to get ready for our afternoon trip.

 

Let me take a moment to explain how this after noon trip came about.

 

A few days ago I meet my mom for dinner along with her sister Cheryl and her husband Ted. After a few drinks I guess I had invited them to ride along on one of our fishing trips. Ok so far so good but the fooling day I meet a good friend Tim who had been fishing with me since way back in my Happy Day Today days (Over 17 years ago) Well I forgot that I had already invited Aunt Cheryl and Ted to ride out on a fishing trip and I invited my old buddy Tim to ride out on a trip.

 

So I came up with this great idea to just take all of them out on their own fishing trip.

 

We even some how managed to get Nancy Tim’s wife to come along.

 

Ok so the stage is set the beer was loaded aboard and off we went on a little fishing trip.

 

We went right to a ship wreck and dropped a live bait down hopping to start out by catching everyone a big amber jack but as luck would have it the jacks were not biting however the beers were going down good. Right Ted? (I’ll get back to the beer later)

 

Ok time for plain B so out went the kites with 3 live baits suspended from them along with one shark bait and down went 2 more shark baits one down about 150 feet and the last down on the bottom 350 feet.

 

Ok so the trap was set and once again the beers were flowing when all of a sudden J.J. yelled from the cockpit that something was all over our shark bait suspended from the kite. Well J.J. was right the line shot off like a rocket the rod bent over and line was screaming off the reel.

 

@ This point everyone got real excited but J.J. kept his wits about him and said first thing first he knew we had to clear our 2 deep lines first before trying to fight this SEA MONSTER. So uncle Ted started on one of the deep rods while Tim reeled up the other one. By the way trying to reel these lines up as fast as you can WILL WARE YOU DOWN. While they were reeling up the deep lines J.J. turned around and asked me if I had seen the fish? I replied that not really but I was sure it was a shark. J.J. had seen the fish and let me know that he was pretty sure it was a huge tiger shark.

 

At this point Nancy and Cheryl who were up on the fly bridge with me were so into talking and they really were not into the fishing thing that they did not even know what we had going on down stairs.

 

Ok lines all got cleared and Ted jumped in the chair and the fight was on. Ted really was not getting much of a chance to fight this fish because he was just holding the rod as the fish was just screaming off line. Than I head Tim ask Ted if he was ok? Than he asked again and J.J.got wind of it so J.J. looked up @ me and kind of shook his head at me.

 

 

 

Ok Ted time for a little break and Tim jumped in the chair but as Tim was fighting the fish I heard him asking who was now sitting in another chair Ted ARE YOU OK?? No response as thing changed real quick. J.J. went right for his wrist seeing if there was a pulse And Tim grabbed his hand and was asking him to squeeze his finger if he could hear him.