We decided to try kayak fishing on this trip to Florida. We hired a guide and set out to catch sea trout and snook.
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| Frank and the guide |
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| The guide taking a picture of Esther with her sea trout |
We paddled 45 minutes down the river to get to the Gasparilla Sound and then began casting to a sunken barge that attracted schools of fish. I almost immediately got stuck on the barge and Frank very quickly got a bite. Unfortunately when he set the hook, he went right over backward into the water! Thank goodness he had a life jacket on, because the water was quite deep. As he hung onto the kayak, he couldn't believe his eyes when he saw a large dark fin pass through the water right in front of him! To his relief, it was a dolphin, not a shark.
The guide paddled over to him and said he could not get into the kayak in this deep water and would have to be towed to shore. Luckily there was an island close by so he got back to fishing pretty quickly.
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| Frank being towed to shore |
We got back to fishing and had a good day catching some new fish for us. I caught a black sea bass, a sea horn pout and a sea trout. Frank caught several sea trout, a lizard fish and a snook. Unfortunately I was too far away to get any photos of his fish.
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| Esther with a sea horn pout |
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| Esther with a sea trout |
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| A lizard fish |
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| A snook |
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| Black sea bass |
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