Free: Contests & Raffles.
Well Phool you'll be waiting a while! Sorry for the delay reporting but sometimes it sucks coming back from Vacation and having to catch up at work! We started off the trip going to Disney world for my girls birthday present and after dropping 650 bones in a day at Magic Kingdom I couldn't even $hi+ a greased BB! But I found a way to go fishing and booked a Guide for Toho but ended up on Johns Lake in Orlando. When we hit the Lake it was beautiful but we knew we were just on the front of a storm and optimistic we would find Big Bass ready to gorge themselves.And we were right for the first 1/2 hr the action was so hot I didn't even stop to take any pics caught several in the 1-3 pound range lost a bunch and caught 2 pickerel and then the front hit us and the fishing was tough for the next few hours. It just figures a guy from Seattle goes to Florida and ends up fishing in the first rain they have had in 2 months!I was able to boat a few despite the conditions. The last 20-30 minutes of light the front settled down and they were on the bite again most were about this size allthough I did loose about a 5-6 pounder and one that made my guide sick that he estimated at 9-10 pounds! he was more angry than me and said it would have easily been the largest fish any of his clients had boated.The next day we headed fro the Uncles house in Pompano and I thinking about how I was having trouble with that greased BB I figured I would just see what kind of gear the Unlce could come up with. I was able to find a 10-20 pound fiberglass rod in the pile and allthough the line was a little suspect and reel took some TLC to get it working right I thought I would just make the best of what I had and just see what happens. After dropping the girls off at the beach M_ray was now the captain of this ship!It was interesting trying to take my picture with the timer and being the skipper at the same time but I wanted to give it t trial run so that if I caught something I could document it. I took off to the north and found my own little piece of Paradise! I no sooner popped my first Corona and something slams my rod and almost pulls it out of the boat ... the way he was pulling I thought he was allot bigger than he tuned out to be and I caught several of his buddies nothing big all about the same size but these little guy's had attitude I think they call them Blue Runners!I ran back into pick up the family and headed for deeper waters with hopes of something bigger but ended up with nothing big but some cool looking fish nonetheless.So I didn't land this one but the wife caught the action on film just before I was snapped off By something as big as me and silver! ... could it have been my tarpon? what ever it was I didn't have the 30 pound main and 80 pound leader it would have taken to land him but it was an exciting 20 seconds at any rate!So allthough I didn't get to scratch the Tarpon off my to do list I will return and I know now what It will take to get it done and I won't have to do the Disney thing again. We also had many old friends we were trying to see as well so time just wasn't there to do it all, I kinda thought this would be more of a scouting trip. Thanks to all for your help and advise I could see how your gear suggestions would have been what I needed and I will have my own stuff for my next trip.Here's my next fishing boat ... just a cool 25 million or so!!!! whadaya think?
