Gone Fishing

Here are a few pictures of me fishing yesterday (May 9) I was the first time I purposfully went fishing spacifically for blue fish. I fished from the hobe Sound public beach from about 8:30am until about 11:00am and I caught three blue fish along with several large chunks of seaweed (not pictured) My sister was the (some what unwilling)photographer. for those of you who want to know, I was using 15lb test line with a mesh wire leader that had a 4oz sinker and a long bait holder hook. my bait was frozen/thawed sardines. (bionic bait)










This was the first fish I caught, I decided to through it back because it was only about 12-13 inches. It did however, put up a good fight. I was very glad that I bought the mesh wire leaders because these things had pretty good sized teeth.

I think this is a picture of the second fish I caught it might be the third though. the second fish I caught ended up being the biggest at about 19-20 inches I really didnt want to keep the third one I caught but it swallowed the hook and I really didn't want to lose my leader so I kept it. In case your wondering why the fish dont look very big its because I'm a huge guy.

Finally here are the two that I kept, on my kitchen counter just before I cleaned them. Notice the Coke Zero bottle for size comparison. I filletted them both and cut the meat into strips, which I then cooked with some "Fish and Chips" batter from Walmart. before I cooked them though I looked up on wikipedia about the strip of dark meat they had along their sides. it turned out that strip of meat is very strong so I cut it off. They turned out very good and even my wife (who hates fish) said they weren't bad. I was not able to get a picture of the fish cooked because it dissappeared very fast. (hic)