Capt Rich, Ray, Scooty, Odinald, Jean, and I would like to thank the Ms. Brie and her family for their more than generous donation of fishing rods, lures, and pliers to four of our most deserving students. Early last week Ms. Brie contacted us asking to donate some fishing rods to four of our students, and right away I knew which of our students were the most deserving. Ray and Scooty have been attending classes and helping anyway they can for the last three years. On top of all the help they have provided, they are two of our most enthusiastic anglers and I know if I ever need to find them they will be fishing at the marina or the inlet. The day they received their fishing rods they went right out to Rays new secret fishing hole (he won't even tell me where it is!) and caught a few snook and jacks. Odinald and Jean are two of our students out at the Belle Glade YEC. We started teaching them at the beginning of this semester, and they volunteered to teach the program to the younger students at their center. Thanks to them, every students at the center has gone through the first section of our program. We all can not thank Ms. Brie and her family enough for everything they have done for our students, and I know they appreciate it more than I can tell her family. We look forward to seeing and fishing with Ms. Brie and her family a lot more in the future, and can not wait to learn some new tricks from her children who are accomplished anglers as well.
In fishing news....we had two fishing charters in the last week. On Friday we took a group of three people out in the afternoon. It was the first nice day in a long time and we enjoyed calm seas and decent fishing. We caught a big bonito and blackfin tuna on a light tackle troll, and then set up of the reef for a drift. During the drift we had a bunch of bite off and snapped lines, but we managed to bring in a ton of blue runners, triggerfish, and other reef species. We even caught sight of a lone swordfish on the surface for about 5 seconds.
Yesterday we had another fishing charter in the morning. The ocean was not nearly as nice as Friday but we pushed through the waves, and it paid off. We set up a troll from the inlet to just north of the Lake Worth pier, and caught 5 blackfin tuna in 130ft, as well as a large bonito.
Everyone at the Florida Fishing Academy would like to thank everybody who has made this year such a great success, and we are looking forward to having an even bigger year in 2012. We are moving up to Riviera Beach in the next few day, and look forward to seeing everyone up there for some amazing fishing, kayaking, and snorkeling.
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