Captain's Report 2/4/11
Capt. Rich, one of the mates from our dock, and I went out Friday morning to see what fish were out front of the Boynton Inlet. We started the morning trolling offshore trying to find some dolphin, with no success, so we started to head in to troll around the reef and bottom fish. On the way in we found a school of Skip Jacks who were no interested, so we moved on. We had an interesting time bottom fishing in around 100ft. Meg and I had a few bites but sadly no fish at first. Capt. Rich was at the back of the boat, and magically caught 3 flounder on his guppie rig using bonita and sardines. As a last ditch effort I throw out a white bucktail jig to troll in and as soon as Capt. Rich put the boat in gear a kingfish hit the jig and Meg reeled it in.
Saturday Fishing Class 2/5/11
This weekend was one of the greatest and most productive days for us and the students thus far. We had about 20 students with us Saturday, and we started the day off with a park clean up. Capt. Rich, the students, and I could not believe how much trash and discarded fishing line there was around the park and in the mangroves. The students filled up a ton of trash bags and picked up all the dead palm fronds. Many of the people hanging out at the park were thanking the students for cleaning the park.
Following the clean up Robert and some of the students went back to the classroom and started up the grill to cook hotdogs and the kingfish caught by Meg the day before. We definitely have a few aspiring chefs in our fishing group!!!!
Finally after lunch some of the students took their rods down to the water and fished for an hour. They caught snappers, grunts, barracudas, and even a sea-robbin. There were 3 students Saturday who caught their first fish!!!!
