Went fishing yesterday (7-21-12) with my brother in law whose Jamaican and my uncle down to islamorada fishing at Tea Table Key. Everything was going according to plan we had made it to tea table at 8am and started getting lines in the water until the unthinkable happened...the rod that my grandfather passed down to me that as a sign of good will I allowed the in law to use went flying into the sea and me following suit I swam roughly 25 feet before I had to swim back because I could feel the current pulling me. I get back to shore ready not knowing to start balling or
but I just let it go and kept fishing. But after 15 minutes of stewing I finally hooked into a decent fish but he had bit my bait (big pin fish) in half leaving just the head,this happened 5 times and it's always the head that is left. We were using live shrimp and squid which both produced good mangrove between 13-15 and a few mutt and groupers that were to small to keep so back they went. The tide started going out at around 2:30 and I called it a day because after hearing a bunch of whining and after spending a $100 on a trip that I funded myself and losing something of great sentimental value I couldn't stomach hearing or looking at that man any longer...the fish were there we just weren't catching them ...I think take I niece to black point the same day to jig for her favorite fish(mangroves) under the bridge.
