Jerry and I left about 7:30am on Monday morning and motored up the coast to the anchorage, and yes of coarse fishing the whole way. The trip was a little rough at times, and no fish again, but we made it up there about 1pm or so, the other boat was already there, so we anchored a little farther in the middle this time, but still a great anchorage.
The dingy motor took a dump again, so after Joe came over and him and Jerry worked on it for about 2 hours we decided to give up.
So need to say Jerry and I got a lot of arm exercise going to the beach and back. Skeeter and I went to the beach to meet up with the rest of the group for a while and we had dinner over on Osprey III the first night.
The next morning everyone came over to the boat for Jerry’s famous eggs and green chili breakfast, the food was great, but it was really rolly from the large swells coming in, one of the girls got sea sick on our boat and had to go back to the other boat and lay down. Then that afternoon everyone went to the beach and snorkeled and swam and Skeeter rolled in every dead animal out there, he kept bringing everyone bird bone and wings, it was actually very cute, they would throw them away and he would bring them back. We had dinner over on Joes boat again that night, he made his famous soup, it is a mexican meatball soup, so, so good. Joe set out his crab traps earlier that afternoon so they went to go pick them up that evening, unfortunatly the crabs were all female and small, so we threw them all back, Trever also went diving for some small oysters, but they still tasted good.
The next morning the other boat went back, but we decided to stay another day, we went back to the beach and hiked all over and of coarse swam and snorkeled. Jerry saw an eel, but unfortunately we do not have any kind of underwater camera so not pictures, sorry.
That night I made my curry chicken and tied everything down so we could leave early the next morning. We went about 25 mile out towards the middle for some better fishing, but all we caught was 2 skip jacks, that are not good eats, and 3 Crevalle jacks, unfortunately they are not good eats either. All three fish hit right at the same time, so we must have gone through a small school of them.
The largest was about 30lbs or so and the others were about 20lbs, they put up a fight, we had to put the boat in neutral and it took Jerry and I about 1 hours to get all three poles in and the fish off, so it was still fun to catch them. We got back around 1pm and Joe was there to help tie of to the dock, which was good since it got a little windy. We hooked the lines and took naps, it was another great trip, can’t wait to do it again when Steve gets here!
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Great pics and story, Lauren!
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