My son. Late yesterday he asked me to watch him take his bait out. He fishes for sharks. Last week he caught a tiger, bull and two black tips.He ferries his bait 400 yards out in the Gulf on a kayak. The only thing I ask is that he let someone know when he is taking the bait out. What we could do for him bobbing out there if something happened I’m not sure — but at least we would know he was bobbing out there in his life jacket.
I thought I was on watch duty — not watch the line duty.
Turned out he wanted me to hold the line with my hand as the boat when out. That way the drag doesn’t have to be so tight. Tight drag means it’s hard to pull out. Okay — this is what happened.
The minute I let my hand up thinking I was set to lose a digit with the razor-sharp line….
I saw this and knew that he was going to kill me.
the line started zipping up in the reel and there is absolutely nothing you can do, except look at your 16 year-old who was 200 yards out in the Gulf and know you don’t want to be anywhere near when he saw this on the sand.
So I left.
Marching up to the house and waited for him to come in and see it.
He was going to be furious because he is like me.
Most important point lost in all the fury….I didn’t volunteer for line duty.
Well, there was lots of groaning and moaning. How he’d just lost $100 worth of line. How his grandfather and 11 year old cousin have no trouble doing this.
Volunteering to undo the line, I spied a yellow sandcastle mold. This was going to show him, that you don’t give up and that no matter how terrible things…..
This is how far I got. I was so cotton-picken insane that when I took this picture my ugly-@*@- feet were in it and…
I didn’t even care.
There the line sits just like that 12 hours later.
My son hasn’t talked to me much. He still has other fishing reels, but this was his super-duper Stratocaster – PennSenator something or other.
Wish there was a tidy resolution to this fish tale but none as yet.
Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to …. do something we should never have been asked to do in the first place.
So there.
I’m totally lost here… why are YOU holding the fishing pole? on the land?
Janice, Janice ~ this is the sorted aftermath in the carport of the house. We drug the mess up there to fix it….and Jake started moaning again…it was HORRIBLE!!!!
I’m just impressed your son catches sharks!!
He’s rather like Captain Ahab where sharks are concerned.
Oh Jamie, looks like you are having fun!!!!! lol! I now you aren’t laughing! Dennis loves to fish for sharks as well when we go to Cape San Blas. He does the same as well but he WALKS his bait as far as he can and then cast from there then walks back to shore. Oh what these men do for sharks. He has caught a five ft. long shark before and brought it up on shore. Everyone on the beach was freaking out. The memories you will have. Hope he can find it in his heart to forgive you. Sure will be glad when you come home. Kingsley went running with me Monday and today I went by myself. I did park in your driveway. I do much better when you push me. See ya soon!!!!
Keep running…I know you all will be very prepared. We are getting rain today thanks to TS Alex. I did manage to get a run in earlier and it really was quite nice with cloud cover. Look forward to hearing stories of the run down Peachtree.