The second day of my vacation in bimini bahamas was just as good as the first if not better. Although I woke up with a bit of a hangover I was up and ready to go and catch some more fish. We really wanted to hook up with some wahoo, but as it turned out we had trolled for a couple of hours and didnt have any luck at all with that. So we proceeded to go to an old trusty spot that my cousin had knew about, and yet again we were catching some snapper right off the bat.
One thing that I had realized other being hungover is that I didnt take my morning shit like I usually do, and then it hit me and it was peaking when we were in the middle of hooking up with snapper and other cool looking tropical fish. Well the good thing about the Bahamas is that the water is always warm, so I just hopped overboard and took a dook in the water, scared shitless though that a shark would come up and bite my ass, you will see in a little bit what I am talking about. We were pretty close to shore and there were a couple of people that were populating some used pontoon boats looking over in our direction, too bad the turd wasnt a floater so that they could see it. Sadly enough the turd had just slowly sank to the bottom, sorry if I am grossing anyone out it is just the way that I am.
I was all fine and dandy with reeling up some snapper and shit but I had started drinking and wanted to get a hold of something that I could go home and brag about, with pictures. So I had caught a fairly large grunt, about 3-4 pounds or so, although grunts are fairly good eatin we had enough fish in the cooler allready to last us for awhile. So I talked my cousin into hooking up a shark rig, as he is a million times more experienced than I am. He hooked the grunt in the head and cut off the tail so it would bleed, so guess what we were going after, you know it, a shark.
Only took about 15 minutes before the line went zipping out quick, then the fight begun. It didnt take as long as I though to get the shark up to the surface, although the shark clearly was over 10 feet and god knows how many pounds, it was a nurse shark and for there size they do not fight as hard as other fish, not that it was completely easy to get the fish up to the boat. Landing the shark was completely out of the question, as I had no need to keep a shark that big, I wasnt going to eat it or hang it on the wall, so I just simply cut the fishing line and let him go.
Well that was the highlight for me of fishing in Bimini…
But there was good times altogether, the place my cousin had the condo was great, the bars (all three of them on the whole island) that we had went to were great. I can not wait to go back and I cant wait to get some more pictures, and on top of that it will be another great saltwater fishing story for me to tell.
