by Chris Sprague, Contributing Writer
Hello Anglers,
This month has been a slow fishing month because the tournament season is coming to an end and we didn’t have good weather because of all the storms. We did have 1 tournament, the Anglers for the Cure. This is a fun charity tournament. We started off in the morning fishing off Juno/Jupiter. We hooked 2 kingfish right away. Half an hour later we were on again. We didn’t think it would be too big of a fish, but who knows, sometimes you will get a very lazy kingfish that swims right to the boat. It was only around 10 pounds, so we released that one. Soon we had another one. I was told like I always am, “Hold on to the long line in the back of the boat while we fight a fish in the front of the boat”. That’s when I got a hit. My line started peeling off and I pulled up and I was tight. I reeled it in slowly until the first fish was in the boat. Then I moved up to the front and we focused on my fish. I was reeling it in as fast as I could because I knew this was a nice fish and I did not want to lose him to the sharks. I got him close, Billy reached out with the gaff and a nice kingfish came over the side. I watched the hooks fall out just as he hit the deck!! This was a 19 pounder. After, there was a dull period for 3 hours with nothing but sharks & bonito. We moved to a spot off Palm Beach and that’s where we got a couple more nice kingfish – 30 & 26. We were excited because there weren’t a lot of boats with nice kingfish. We hoped to get aggregate, but we were beat by a few pounds. I missed out on placing by about 5 ounces. Even though we didn’t win, it was very fun and we were lucky to get what we got. Check it out on you tube!
Tight Lines!
Christopher Sprague
Jr. Angler “Team Tuppen’s”