8A Trip

Feeling bad about not getting much for the amount of time FishBob and I had spent on the water and about continually being plagued by this full moon, I thought of a SURE FIRE way to get some fish guts on the boat. After a few phone calls to our social coordinators and being granted permission for a play date, FishBob, Ross and I ran out to the 8A reef on Wednesday night to do a little night time reef fishing. Finally, success! Phew!  We loaded up the cooler with some tasty little black sea bass. Ross picked up a stinky bonita for the crab traps. Thank you, Ross. That was a fun fight-- involving the anchor line about three times. It was a lot of fun night fishing for once on the ocean: for one, it was MUCH cooler out there. After having battled the raging heat the last few days, it was a nice break. The seas were a non-issue, it was flat as a lake and the fish were biting well. We caught a few small red snappers and got taken into the rocks a few times: just enough to keep us interested and dropping down for more. I think the only issue we had was getting into cell phone range in time to meet our call- in curfew before the Coasties were sent out on a search and rescue mission and the only issue with that was we just started getting some really good bites when we had to call it a night. Bummer. Add a sat phone to the next Bass Pro list to avoid that situation again. Oh well.  We cleaned fish into the wee hours of the morning and I still had plenty of fight in me.