This past Wednesday we went out to fishing Lake O with the students from the Belle Glade YEC center. They have doing amazingly well with the course and deserved a trip to the lake to practice what they have learned thus far. It was a beautiful evening, and the only thing that would have made it even more amazing was some fish. We were using live worms and plastic worms. There were a few big hits on the plastic worms, and a ton of nibbles on the live worm, but sadly very few fish. I have now learned that crickets are the secret to catching fish at the lake.
On Friday evening I met most of the Santaluces High School students at the Boynton Inlet to try our hands at surf fishing. Despite how cold it was, everyone was ready and excited to get wet and catch some fish. We set out two rods for sharks, using the bonitos we caught the day before, as well as tons of rods for snappers and any other smaller species of fish. Within the first hour we had our first shark, but it managed to snap the mainline and get away. Sadly no other sharks came by the rest of the night. We did have a ton of luck with other species of fish though. The students caught catfish, ladyfish, and palometa. All of which they ID'ed thanks to their enthusiasm during the fish ID section of the course. Despite losing the one shark, and the extreme cold, many of the students are excited to try again over Thanksgiving break.
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