"HarryKrause" wrote in message
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Anyone discussing this? I don't want to wade through 4000000000 posts .


Went today with the kids. Netted up some white bait off Barefoot Beach
and headed out to a nearshore reef out about 3 miles. My older son and I
caught a few keeper snapper, a couple of spanish macks, and several
undersized gag grouper. We then decided to move back inshore to fish the
pass for a snook. The current was ripping through there at about 5-6
knots, and it was hard to hold position. I kept the boat in slow forward
postion while my 5 1/2 son was casting a shiner out. He got a big hit
that pulled some drag but then broke him off. Some idiot in a Century
must have seen him fighting the fish, because he tried anchoring up
current about 50 feet from me. Dumbass. There was no way an anchor would
have held in that current. He of course broke loose and came difting at
me. In an attempt to keep him from slamming into me, I cut the wheel to
port and slowly moved forward just as 12 PWC's came shooting through the
pass rocking me side to side. I got on the throttle too hard and sent my
son stumbling backward, until he fell and hit the back of his head on the
steering mechanism on the outboard. This of course scared the **** out
of me. I iced his head and had my wife meet me at one of the boat ramps
nearby. She picked him up and took him to the ER, since the knot on the
back of his head grew to the size of a small orange. The doc ordered a
CT scan as a precaution, and it thankfully came back negative.

I met them at the hospital, and my son's first words were "when I get
better, can we go back out fishing again?" His second question was "I
didn't dent your boat, did I?"



Wow. Glad your kid is ok.

Thanks.

I'm jealous of your catch, though.

There wasn't much to my "catch". The snapper, although keeper size, were
right at 10". The spanish macks are fun to catch on light tackle, but
they're a nuisance when you're fishing with light fluorocarbon leader since
they break off more than half of the jigs that they hit. The gags were all
12-16 inches...but they need to be 22" to keep. Most of the big ones move
off the nearshore reefs in the summer and head to deeper water. We had

One interesting thing happened. My son caught a mack and it jumped clear of
the water on the strike and hit me square in the chest to the left of my
left nipple. It left what looks like a big hickey.

If I didn't have the kids with me, my wife would have been curious as to why
I came back with a hickey and smelling like fish. ;-)