Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Charter and Riviera CRA class last week















Last Friday Capt Rich and I had a 5 hour fishing charter.  We cleared the Palm Beach Inlet and trolled for about half an hour before realizing that we were not catching any fish because the charter had brought along 8 bananas.  The charter ate the bananas as fast as they could and within 5 minutes we caught a blackfin tuna.  With the west wind blowing and the fishing being slow we decided to set up a drift.  Right away they started catching fish including a nice 30lb bonito.  We kept catching all sorts of bottom fish for the next few hours, and then everyone woke up when a sailfish took one of the dead sardines and started jumping.  Despite the slow start the charter had a great time and left with some tuna and yellowtail snapper for dinner.

One Saturday, Eden and I spent the day up in Riviera kayaking and snorkeling with the students of Riviera Beach.  We took a morning trip and an afternoon trip and both were amazing.  We paddled over to the beach on the east side of the island and snorkeled around the rocks and saw more fish than we could count

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