Fishing

I thought I was done blogging tonight until this goofy looking guy came into my cabin with emergency pictures to put on the blog!

Did not take Orlando Junior very long to catch a Tarpon tonight at all! A great looking fish and congratulations!

Also thought some of Simeon's fan club would appreciate this picture of him in Pirate gear, not looking quite as goofy as the other one!

And I found this picture on the guest's camera, thought it was wonderful. Little Sophia, as you can tell has a ton of personality! To Simeon's utter dismay, he had a hard time getting her to believe that SImeon was NOT my son, and that Brent and him were not brothers!

It is the last day of charter, and there is no blue blue skies around. With the (little) wind there is from the southeast we are getting the grey/blue Montserrat haze...AND there is barely any breeze, making it a hot steamy day. We spent the morning at the Caves, just "limin" then most went for a drink of two at WIlly T's, and apparently the women found out that they make their drinks strong!!! We made out way up to Deadmans Bay on Peter Island for a bit of beach and water time, Seriously like a steamy hot mill pond out here...

Bazza zipped across the channel for an air conditioning part, and the guys waited for the dinghy to come back to pull the predator around.

Some took advantage of the Bimbo mats to have a sleep (although we are always ready with our camera!)

And then we made our way over to Buck Island on sunset, for a steak dinner which after margaritas etc only 7 out of the 10 made it for!!!

We have an early drop tomorrow and then a pick up late tomorrow afternoon, so it will be lots of bleach getting the fish smell off the boat tomorrow, although we made a pretty good attempt at it today at the Caves already!
It has been a good, full week, with lots of fun, fishing and diving, and I don't believe we had a drop of rain all week!

Yes, the days are still getting longer. We had dinner in the sink this morning before 8 AM!

We headed out north for a bit of fishing, and past the great example of what happens with shore erosion when you take out the native vegetation that was supposed to be holding up that end of Anegada...

This was our second King Mackerel this morning...

Some decided that they did not want to spend 7 hours trolling behind the boat today, so it was off to the Chikuzen for a dive...

Simeon took his two resort divers to 40 feet at the top of the wreck!

This is a dive that will spoil the resort divers for anything else, as about the first thing we saw when we were on the wreck was the Goliath Grouper, wandering around, paying no attention to us at all! The resort divers are behind and above him here!

We saw, or at least I thought I saw, one of the largest Nurse Sharks I have ever seen, however, even though it had to be 7 to 8 feet, we caught about 5 that size fishing off the back of the boat tonight!!

Some went through the wreck...

We saw a nice Hogfish that lives there, along with Cobia, and Angelfish...

Of course there were tons and tons of barracuda...

Pompanos...but no wisky bit so maybe they are something else?

And then I ran across the Grouper again. I think I have about 400 pictures of him now from every angle! Notice on his bottom lip, it almost looks like he has stitches in it? Very cool....

Then it was back to fishing, on our way into Monkey Point for lunch. We had on the boat about 17 or more fish today, from Tuna to Mackerel, to Barracuda and Jacks and Nurse Sharks, mostly all put back..After all, how much fish could one eat???

A good fighting picture...

I don't believe I have ever had such keen fishermen, but I am sure to the old folks from St Marys dismay, we have gone from catching nada, nothing and zilch to the point where if I hear "fish on" one more time I will cry, and if they are filling up my sinks in the galley one more time I may also cry!

Here is an assortment of lures this week..The pink lures have been the big hit, we have been catching most everything on those!

We had iced frappucino's in celebration of the fishing mid day...Aren't they cute??

We had dinner, in between catching sharks, we actually had two nurse sharks on the lines at the same time, with a total of 7 sharks caught tonight.

THese two boys worked as a team to bring in this shark, and they were pretty excited. We took our pictures and quickly let them go home again!

Although the excitement of Chris's face is pretty priceless as well...

Yes, in between all this we cooked dinner, did dishes, made dessert, set up breakfast buffet, took photographs and wrangled fish! I don't know about anyone else, but I am absolutely exhausted tonight!