My Fishing Adventures
By Christopher Sprague Jr. Angler-Team Tuppens, Contributing Writer
Hello Anglers, I hope you all have been staying safe and catching some monster fish! Last weekend our team fished the ChaseN’ Tailz fishing tournament out of Jupiter. We got extremely lucky with the weather. The day before it was insanely rough and windy, but overnight it calmed down to nearly flat calm. We reached our spot right as the tournament was starting, at 6:30A. We rigged up our lines and set them out. We waited for around 45 minutes when we heard the reel start to pull slowly. Jason grabbed the rod and began reeling. Just as he put more tension on the line, the fish took off! It screamed, and we knew we had a big one. I was in charge of driving the boat to the fish and my Dad would be the gaff man. We kept reeling it, and the fish wasn’t fighting much, but it was still heavy. Jason kept reeling and we saw a big silver shape. We got it closer to the surface and saw that this was a monster. We got it closer and my Dad stuck it with the gaff, and we pulled it over. We had a monster, and we were ecstatic. Our first fish was HUGE, we were so happy and knew we had a high chance of winning this one. We all guessed that it was 40 plus pounds. The rest of the day was relatively slow with not many big fish. At around 2P, we were just waiting for a bite then suddenly we saw a school of nice sized dolphin pass the boat. I set out a gog and got one in the boat. Jason also had another nice one on, but we just couldn’t get the big bull to eat and then finally, he bit the bait. After we got those three dolphins, the others took off. When we weighed in, our kingfish was 48 pounds, and our big dolphin was 12.9 pounds! We got 1st overall big fish, 1st dolphin calcutta, 2nd aggregate, 1st junior, and a few other awards. Winning the awards is great and we are very thankful, but what ChaseN’ Tailz does for families in need is priceless.