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Got to do a half day fishing yesterday with my buddy Capt. Steve Lamp of Sugarloaf Key.
We had about six yellowjack yesterday,Lamp caught them all fishing the reef off the Lower Keys.I have photos but don’t know how to put them up.
Our biggest was 15 lbs.
What a whirlwind trip.
We left the dock around 2:00 pm in brisk winds with some bumpy seas and were at the reef in ten minutes.
steve has a huge charter business in Key West with 8 or 10 boats,I forget, and keeps several skiffs at his home on Sugarloaf.
We fished hard for a few hours caught yellowtail, Spanish Mackerel,Red grouper,and Yellowjacks all on light tackle with no bait only artificial lures.
It was a wild time catching over 20 fish.Steve called it a slow day.!
On the way home he cranked up his 24 foot Yellowfin custom boat with a 400 hp Mercury outboard motor and you literally had to hold on to keep from going over the side!
I looked at the speedometer and we hit 65 mph which is flying on the water.It’s equivalent to 130 mph on land!
What a trip,good as it gets.

What a trip,good as it gets.

Posted my question on catching before I read your great report. 400 hp on a 24 is a monster.....

65 in a boat is like 110-120 on a motorcycle..... :):):)

rodguy, I believe there was a wise man who once said A bad day fishing is still better than a good day doing anything else.

Here's another tidbit from my archives you might enjoy. I've had a lifelong interest in archaeology and ancient cultures. In the British Museum there's a clay cuneiform tablet that was discovered in the mid-1800's, along with thousands of others, in the Royal Library of Assyrian king Ashurbanipal in Ninevah (present day Iraq).

The tablet lay in the basement for a hundred years until someone got around to translating it. The library dated from around 700 B.C., but the tablet was a translation of an earlier Sumerian text from around 2000 B.C. So, from the wisdom of 4000 years, here's what it said:

God does not subtract from a man's life the hours spent in fishing.

Rod, thanks for putting all the political stuff in perspective. Enjoy life and don't let what you can't control take the fun out living.

Oh, and Trump won and will be the 45th President of the United States of America. No amount of recounting is going to change that.