Mack Attack

Got an invite from some friends of mine Gordon, Dale, Stuart and Steve to join them on their charter today onboard with Capt Aaron Lowman on  Anna Maria.
We headed out to the Palm Sola area and targeted the areas tight under the docks for Redfish for a while, one undersize fish landed by Stuart and he then lost a couple of nice fish tight to the sea wall, yours truly had one big pull which I lost just as we were about to leave and try another spot.
Nice to see dolphins cruising around.
We headed out of Longboat Pass into the gulf and cruised just off shore to pick up some more bait, Arron soon had enough after 2 throws and we were off again, this time heading farther out into the gulf, spotted a big sea turtle just before we anchored up in about 25 foot of water and started feeding our baits down wind, a few free offerings thrown out and we started to see fish busting out behind the boat, all lines were in the water and I had a big hit straight away that I can only presume may have been a King due to the fact that the wire trace had been bitten clean through.
Eventually fish started to come to the boat and all rods were well bent at some point with quite a few double hook ups, there was some really good sized Spanish Mackerel but now and again we we're still finding we were been bitten clean off.

On two occasions as I was reeling in the mack right at the side of the boat a Barracuda of about 4 foot long came right out of the water and smashed into the fish taking it whole as well as my leader and in the process soaking Dale and myself who where at that end
Great excitement and good fishing with good company.

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