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By Jason
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Saturday, June 5, 2010
" Windy & Rough Day On The Water "

I woke up this morning, took a bike ride, then looked out the window and thought, what else to do today for fun?  Of course boating & fishing came to mind!  I saw that there was already some wind, and a bit more than I like to see for a day on the water, but nonetheless, I sill thought it would be something good to do.

Karla got up, we invited our close friend Joyce, and off we went.   We left land at 1:10pm, and onboard were Joyce, Karla, Amber, Spike and myself.

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We headed to Picnic Island and caught quite a bit of 1" pinfish along with a few other oddball fish.

Then we were heading for Sanibel Causeway Span C, we noticed an abandoned fishing float in the water that would occasionally be pulled below the surface.  I was determined to grab the float and see what it was attached to.  After a few attempts, I finally grabbed it:

A catfish attached by its tail to a treble hook!
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We drifted outbound from Span C, past the Sanibel pier and Joyce got a bit, and I got one too but no catch.  At one point I had hooked onto something large which appeared to be a 3 or 4 foot brownish shark.  But unfortunately the thick octopus circle hook was not set, and the fish set himself free.

Later we headed to SC Tripod, which turned out to be a big mistake, mainly because the surf was so bad.  The 4 mile trip going there beat the heck out of us.  Then we were unable to anchor, so we drifted toward the beach a while.  I had my big boy pole deployed with a catfish tail on it, and eventually I had a hard hit;  The pole went ZZZZZZZ,  and I scrambled to see what had been hooked.  After a minute or so, unfortunately, my 80lb mono leader had been bitten through and I lost the opportunity.  I believe it was another shark.

A large fishing vessel had passed by us named "Amber Cyn" as can be seen on its bow:

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The water was so rough that we headed back.

We were back on land at 7:00pm a little beat up, but happy to be on the water today.

Our Track
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