Deep Sea Fishing

While we were hanging out with my parents in Florida, we fulfilled my moms life long dream of going deep sea fishing. Actually, she has gone before when she was a little girl and she caught an enormous fish, so I think she was hoping for another "big fish" story. We chartered a fishing boat with a group of people and went out to sea with a couple of crazy sea men. We traveled away from the shore about 15 miles and it was COLD out in the middle of the ocean.

Deckhand Stan and Barracuda Brandy were right at home on a boat. However, the only person to catch a fish 5 fish that day was Jake. He lured in a blowfish, three pig fish (which actually make snorting noises when they're out of water), and a flounder. I guess pig fish aren't very good to eat, same with blowfish so those were tossed back.

It was dark by the time we got back but we waited an extra 15 minutes and watched these dirty old seamen swab the deck from head to toe before they took one step off of their vessel. For one dollar Captain Jack would clean and fillet your catch. I'm glad we waited for an old pro to do it because that flounder was so skinny that there wouldn't have been any meat left on it if the Shumways/Bouchers tried to pretend like we knew what we were doing. Ten minutes later we were home and Jake was in the kitchen cooking up a storm (one of his areas of expertise.) That flounder was DELICIOUS. We all enjoyed the freshest fish of our lives.