Monday, February 18, 2019

Moving on to Palm Beach Gardens!


2/16 Saturday
     We traveled on the outside to reach our next destination of Palm Beach Gardens, with is just a little north of West Palm Beach.  It was a beautiful day and we saw so many boats out fishing in the gulf stream.  We decided to try our luck and put out a couple of lines to troll.  We were going slow anyway so why not!  After an hour or so, one of the lines went reeling out, Fish on!  We put the boat in neutral and Karl grabbed the pole.  The fish took it hard and almost ran the line out.  We watched it jump out of the water many times.  It was splendid to watch a fish jump, twist and turn multiple times  in a fight to get off the hook.  It was very exciting to watch!  Karl worked to get it in for about what seemed like 15 or 20 minutes.   He got it up to the boat and discovered it was a sailfish!

                                                   Video of final seconds of sailfish battle

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