The wind has been blowing for most of the month but I did manage some quality time with my son JT. The plan was to head out about 25 miles to catch some snapper for dinner and maybe some bait for an up coming charter. To quote the great Hanibel Smith “I love it when a plan comes together”.
The day started out a little choppy but the seas were 2-3 so no big deal. As the day went on the weather just kept getting better and so did the fishing. We got about a half dozen nice mangs along with several short grouper and another reef species. Then we decided it was time to bring in some live bait to refill my pen at the dock. While catching blue runners on shrimp we got nailed by something a bit bigger than the 1 pounders we had been catching. After about a 15 minute fight I could see we had a pretty good sized king for a 5yr old fisherman. Being it was JT’s first king ever we kept the fish to eat and maybe get a mount of the head.
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