June 24th 2016 report

Today's trip was a three-quarter day six hour trip with Nathan and his fifteen-year-old son Elijah. Elijah is a big strong kid who has a world record in power lifting at 380 pounds. Impressive! They wanted to catch fish for dinner so we hit our first spot in the morning and the first cast Elijah lands a nice mangrove snapper and then we caught some mutton Snappers that were a bit short some triggerfish and then Elijah said something he shouldn't have said. He said he wanted to catch a shark because he had never caught a shark before. The next fish landed was a nice big live 3-pound Jack and I quickly threw him back out on one of those big tarpon rods for sharks. It didn't take long for the rod to double over. Elijah grabbed the rod and fought his fish and then his dad fought the shark this went on for an agonizing four hours until we decided to call it quits and break the fish off. I suspect it was probably a huge bull shark that got foul hooked on one of the fins since it is extremely rare for us to hook into a shark that we cannot land in at least an hour and a half. After the shark episode most of our fishing time had evaporated so we ran to a grass flat where they caught a nice big trout and added that to the list of species for dinner. What an ordeal with this shark today! Capt. Mo Estevez www.MiamiBoneFishing.com 786-853-1409 Follow me on Instagram @MiamiBoneFishing